THE Merseyside Entre-preneurship Commis-sion was created in 2005.

Aug 13 2008 by Tony McDonough, Liverpool Daily Post

It was chaired by former Mersey TV owner Phil Red-mond, and was tasked with looking at ways of increas-ing the number of entrepre-neurs in Merseyside.

It published a report after talking to 1,000 businesses, and concluded that there were too many business support agencies and that the system needed to be simplified. All very good.

But click on the website – www.merseysideentrepre-neurshipcommission.org – and you may notice some-thing a little strange. You will see a page entitled Merseyside Ondernemers Commissie, with pictures of Liverpool and a block of text in Dutch.

That should be a great help to would-be entrepreneurs in, er, Amsterdam?

GOOD news for St Helens Rugby League Football Club (RLFC) which is to benefit from £4.9m from the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA).

The cash will be used for site remediation works around the development of a new stadium for the club.

The 18,000-capacity stad-ium project is being led and delivered by developers Langtree in partnership with St Helens RLFC and St Helens Council. However, we fear the deputy chairman of rival rugby league club Warrington Wolves may not look forward to the next board meeting, for he is none other than NWDA chief executive Steven Broomhead, above.

Broomers, though, may point to a method in his madness. Warrington have not won a game at St Helens’ current ground, Knowsley Road, for 14 years.

FLIRTING with controversy once again is Liverpool PR leg-end Joel Jelen.

The boss of Ubiquity has written a column in the latest 08 businessconnect email newsletter entitled: Quit complaining – the customer isn’t always right.

He believes the standard of the city’s restaurants is now so high we should now all learn to be better cus-tomers. He advises not talking on the phone while staff are taking your order, not getting over-familiar with the waiter, and not playing “Billy Big Biscuits” by pretending to be a big pal of the manager and trying to blag a discount. Should go down well with his restaurateur clients.