Brighton-based publisher and event organiser Pavilion Publishing enjoyed an office-warming party after moving into a former ironworks.

The company moved about 100 yards, from a Regency town house in St George's Place to bigger premises in Cheapside.

Started 13 years ago by two social work professionals, Chris Parker and Jan Alcoe, Pavilion now provides journals, training publications and conferences for the health and social care market and has doubled in size during the past two years.

There is now a workforce of 40 at the new open-plan offices.

Mr Parker said: "The climate has not always been easy for small business over the last few years but Brighton has all the facilities to help a young and expanding company like Pavilion thrive - good media, rail networks to London and, of course, people love to come to the seaside to work.

"The move marks the result of a lot of hard work on the part of all our staff and I am also grateful to the enormous help and support we have received from Sussex Enterprise.

"This has enabled us to launch into e-commerce and expand our overseas sales."