Jobs are due to be created at APS Salads, a tomato firm in Kent, in a Hartlepool bricklaying firm being supported by a Tata enterprise, and up and down the country’s motorways at Euro Garages service stations.

APS Salads

The tomato supplier has near doubled its capacity in Kent as part of a £3.67m growth project, writes the Dover Express.

This will lead to the creation of 80 jobs over the next few years.

Dover District Chamber of Commerce chief executive officer David Foley says the county is “attractive to salad and produce growers” as it suffers from less inclement weather than elsewhere in the country.

Brickwork Services

Around 40 new jobs are to be created at the Hartlepool firm, which already employs 170 people across the North-East.

The company has been given a £50k unsecured loan from UK Steel Enterprise, a subsidiary of Tata Steel tasked with regeneration of communities affected by changes in the UK’s steel industry.

Euro Garages

The Blackburn-based operator of petrol and services stations wants to attract 69 new Subway franchisees to open on its premises.

This would create 700 new jobs, the company says. Euro Garages already has 31 of the sandwich brand’s outlets throughout its 120-forecourt estate.

That includes 45 locations acquired from large rival Esso in January.