A LOCAL seminar will tackle the Year 2000 computer issue.

The Millennium Bomb is on the agenda at The Year 2000 - The Reality, on Wednesday, April 29.

It is being organised in conjunction with the MBA Alumni Association by the Centre for Enterprise and Management at Bolton Business School, part of Bolton Institute.

Alumni members and business owners requested the event in order to find accurate and reliable information.

The speaker is Philip Webb, Managing Director of BDO Stoy Hayward Consulting North Ltd.

Mr Webb, one of the country's leading experts on the Millennium situation, has addressed audiences all over the UK for the CBI, academic institutions and financial organisations.

During the early 1990s he developed and grew a computer services company which achieved a turnover of £6 million within four years.

He sold the business in 1996 and joined BDO Stoy Hayward recently.

Details are available from Kathryn Wilde at the Centre on 01204 903691.

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