1. Business profile: Escape2travel

The business: Escape2travel, www.escape2holidays.co.uk, Atlantic House, Imperial Way, Reading, RG2 0TD, 0845 2714300, enquiries@escape2holidays.co.uk.

2. ‘Giving women the best chance to grow firms’

Business networking group Athena attracted more than double its normal number to a special pre-Christmas lunch.

3. Business profile: Delights of Tuscany

The business: Delights of Tuscany. HQ in Caversham Heights but sales are located around the region; 07722 422039; deborah@delights-of-tuscany.co.uk; www.delights-of-tuscany.co.uk.

4. Top (lip) team on cash leaderboard

A mix of the internet and old fashioned face-to-face meetings helped a team of learned legal gents raise a remarkable £8,500 for charity by growing moustaches.

5. Business profile: kigs.co.uk

The business: kigs.co.uk, info@kigs.co.uk, 0208 123 5015.

6. Social networking pays off for Loddon Brewery

A local brewery has been rewarded for its use of social networking sites on the internet.

7. Yasmina: ‘Lord Sugar is my inspiration’

Apprentice winner Yasmina Siadatan has got her sights set on being Lord Sugar’s right-hand woman, she has admitted.

8. Business profile: Big Deal Training

The business: Big Deal Training, Southcote Road, Reading. www.bigdealtraining.com, 0118 958 7681, 07920 094555, eddie@bigdealtraining.com.

9. Liam Gallagher goes from rock god to a museum Mod

Liam Gallagher is all set to rock Reading – but in a different fashion to that loved by his millions of fans.

10. Review: Squeeze, The Hexagon, Reading