The tire shops can feel the winter cold this morning. A lot of people wait till the last minute tu put on winter tires, creating long queues in specialised shops.

The Brussels government wants to better inform entrepreneurs about how to hand them over to their successors in the coming years. A company hand over or takeover is more complicated than you could think.

Outgoing Economy Minister Cerexhe will be going on an economic mission to the Gulf States in december to attract, among other things, Islamic banks to Brussels.

75 jobs will disappear at printing house Enschedé - Van Muysewinkel. Negotiations regarding severance payments will start.

The Brussels cycling union are angry about the state of the cycling path on Leopold III avenue. Cars have had a brand new tunnel for a few days but the new cycling path is a total disaster, they say.

The abattoir denies the allegations of a Romanian Socialist MEP. She says in De Standaard that several SMEs based in the abattoirs are exploiting 150 Romanian women, who have to work long hours for very low wages. The trade union only partly acknowledges that possibility .

The abttoirs of Anderlecht are getting a new name. Abatan will be changed by Abattoir, as the slaughter-house had been known for decades. Besides that, a new market will be built by 2014.

Tomorrow is the new school year. The parents probably already have the new school supplies coveredand some of them bought them in pop up stores. They're temporary stores and they're trendy.

The workers of car manufacturer Audi Brussels got a 1700-euro bonus at the end of the month. The car maker wants to reward the workers for meeting the production goals.

The noise pollution regulations make the aiport less interesting for big airlines. If the various political levels don't find common ground fast, jobs will be lost.