BusinessLink Cumbria has, at long last. bitten the dust. After six years and a long drawn out decline it has finally been put down.

Don't worry about the 14,475 businesses it helped last year which will suddenly be without an advisor.

A BusinessLink employee told me that double-counting the businesses helped was commonplace and just last week I was told that due to the complexity of the schemes offered "counting the same business four or five times was not unknown"!