A new online database has been purchased to help smaller businesses in the Wakefield district succeed. It is available free of charge to personal callers visiting the business information section at the Learning and Local studies Library at Balne Lane, Wakefield. No appointment is necessary, please ask the staff to log you onto the database.

The COBRA small business advisor from Cobweb information Ltd contains over 3,000 factsheets, reports and small business guides. These include:

• Business Opportunity Profiles - over 350 business start up profiles and guides to business start up ideas
• Business Information Factsheets - over 300 how-to guides and practical small business checklists
• UK Market Synopses - guides to trends and opportunities in over 60 UK market sectors

Please note our former subscription to Marketline from Datamonitor, the market research database, and our former subscription to Cobweb’s print-based services have been discontinued to make way for this comprehensive new database.