Daniel Sutherland (Milkistar), Glenn Buchan & Kilian Palop (Adspad) talk about how winning a Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award provided them not only with funding but the PR, confidence and credibilty to launch their new businesses.

Joshua Mason-Allen (LROPS Flight Simulation), Esther Dingley (Graduate Toolbox), Dave Stone (UKloupes), Rombout Frieling (fresh!roast), Deborah Cairns (Organise Your Chaos), Ben Scrimgeour (Ben Scrimgeour Building Workshop), Kurtis Brown (ID Theft Prevention UK) and Cathi Harrison (FYIFinance) have all been shortlisted for the February Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards handed out at the end of March.

Entrepreneurs from across the country once again have a chance to make their business dreams come true by appearing on Dragons’ Den. If you’re genuinely seeking investment for your business idea or invention, the BBC would like to hear from you.

HiMag Solutions Limited recently received the Shell Springboard Award for the best low carbon business idea in the UK. The award was given at a ceremony in central London to recognise the innovation of its planar transformer which could dramatically increase energy efficiency in electrical devices across the world.

Stuart Varrall of Fluid Pixel has won the coveted DediPower Digital Award 2010. The trophy was presented by Rt Hon Stephen Timms, MP, Minister for Digital Britain, at a special ceremony in London on 1st March.

Gregor Mackintosh (22), director of Mackintosh of Glendaveny represented the UK’s young entrepreneurial community as a special guest at the launch in Basilicata in the south of the country.

Congratulations to Adam Hastings (Drink Tea Eat Biscuits), Tristan Watson (Kwince), Shira Rubin (Learn2Lingo) and James Martin (AAAS Steering) for winning our latest £1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards.

Daniel Sutherland, who was shortlisted for the Shell LiveWIRE Entrepreneur of the Year Award last year, completed the final prototype for his revolutionary new baby feeding bottle, the Milkistar, in September and is now in the process of marketing it.

An award-winning County Durham entrepreneur is going global with the help of Peter Rabbit and friends.

Shadow Minister for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk has prioritised the scrapping of Business Link if the Conservatives come into power. Mr Prisk told the Sunday Times that he believes regional Business Links are "failing in their task" and would like to see local enterprise agencies take a greater role in helping small firms.