Up to 20 new jobs are being created with the opening of the new What Everyone Wants store in Keighley's Cavendish Street retail park tomorrow. They will include six full-time positions and from 12 to 14 part-time.

The Glasgow-based company's managing director Martin Rigby says: "Value for money and quality will always by number one priorities at What Everyone Wants - a fact that is well-known by our customers and is the successful formula which has enabled our business to grow."

What Everyone Wants specialises in discount menswear, ladies' wear, children's wear and footwear, along with textiles, toys and gifts and seasonal ranges. The firm's first store opened in Glasgow in 1971, and it now has more than 90 throughout the UK. In 1997 it was bought out by the Brown and Jackson Group, which has 450 stores throughout the UK including £-Stretcher and Your More Store.

The new 10,000sq ft Keigh-ley store will run alongside the existing £-Stretcher on the same site. The two stores will be complementary rather than in competition.

Ecology's

£25m mark

Cross Hills-based Ecology Building Society has broken the £25 million assets barrier in the last year. Latest results show assets up from £22.4 million the previous year. The society, which lends to people wanting to renovate their homes or planning ecologically-sound buildings, plans to introduce a new ethical Indivi-dual Savings Account (ISA) and new mortgage and savings products in the next few months.

The society's pre-tax profits increased from £259,000 to £263,000, and loans went up 14.3 per cent to £19.1 million last year. Chief executive Paul Ellis says: "The society will continue to demonstrate its commitment to its ecological and mutual goals, and we expect demand to grow as green ideas continue to gain wider acceptance."

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