BOLTON Businesses have just a week to enter the prestigious Northwest Business Environment Awards 2004.

Celebrating the success of the region's innovators to combine exemplary environmental management with their business practice, the deadline for applications is Monday, February 2.

The categories are: waterside regeneration, environmental technologies, best environmental practice and media awareness.

The awards are hosted by the Mersey Basin Campaign and Northwest Development Agency and is supported by the Environment Agency, Enviorlink Northwest, ENWORKS and CBI Northwest.

Details can be accessed by visiting www.merseybasin.org.uk