IT’S been a busy week of business news, with new jobs and investment to be welcomed alongside some more troubling news.

Our round-up of the top business stories leads with the news of a Bournemouth company that is creating 50 jobs and has attracted £15million from a venture a venture capital firm which previously saw the potential of Zoopla and Cazoo.

The business is Kortext, which provides millions of electronic university textbooks, and which employs around 130 people locally, and its news leads this week’s round-up.

We also report calls for the government to do more to help small hospitality businesses, the closure of a local bank, the refurbishment and renaming of a well-known Bournemouth pub and the latest on sub-prime lender Amigo.

Listen to the clip below to hear business editor Darren Slade take you through the week’s key developments.

And to read the stories in full, click on the following links:

50 new jobs jobs, 300 per cent more demand and £15m boost for e-textbook firm

Plea for help to ensure small hospitality firms survive Covid crisis

Lloyds Bank in Dorset among 29 branches to close

Company signed up to boost profile of UK's biggest shop-based parcel service

Amigo Loans warns insolvency is "still an option" after lifeline from lender

Amigo considering revised scheme for complaints payouts – but insolvency a 'real possibility'

PICTURES: Bournemouth pub unveils new look after refurb

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