The next meeting of the Bradley Stoke Small Business Forum takes place on Monday, 11 February.

Gary Vailes from courier firm V and M Express will give a talk to the group and there will a chance for networking.

The meeting takes place at 6.30pm at the Pitman Training Centre on Pear Tree Road.

You might have noticed a few new features around the website - including improved search facilities and our new fancy mailing list.

If you want to search for a specific item we’ve published cast your eyes top right for that.

Subscribing will mean you are notified as soon as a new article is published. We promise we’ll only use it for that purpose and your email address will remain private and not sold on to some corporate mailing list so you get spammed about plasma screen tellies and the like.

Feel free to give both a try and let us know what you think via the add comments bit.

We’ve made some improvements to the Bradley Stoke Examiner - and we’d love to hear what you think.

We have ditched the more ‘traditional’ newspaper layout and taken on an easier-to-read blog style.

Now you can read all the latest news on one page or narrow down your interest by using the ‘tag cloud’.

We’ve made it easier to get involved in the stories by showing which posts are prompting conversation.

And you can also navigate to other popular sections of the website, such as the forum and in pictures section, by clicking the menu at the top of the page.

We’re currently tweaking the layout and adding more links to other Bradley Stoke websites.

What do you think of the new look? Is there anything you would like to see changed? Or do you love the new look? Add your comments.