21st March 2023
People across Leicester will enjoy greener, smoother and more reliable journeys as an extra 18 UK-made electric buses are rolled out thanks to £2.9 million in Government investment.
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9th March 2023
Northamptonshire-based Medigold Health, a leading name in the UK occupational health sector, has today announced the successful acquisition of Health Management, in a move that will see the business become the country’s largest independent provider of wor
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7th March 2023
Leicester College has received a £6,000 donation from the Leicestershire Joint Consultative Committee (LJCC) for the Building Industry to help fund the purchase of a new mortar mill to support a variety of students on Construction courses.
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6th March 2023
Businesses and charities are being invited to apply for funds to help improve their premises as part of a new scheme which will support the wider regeneration of Staveley town centre.
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3rd March 2023
Simply Business, one of the UK’s biggest providers of small business insurance, has announced a year-long partnership with Baroness Karren Brady CBE, as the company’s first ever Small Business Ambassador.
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2nd March 2023
Leicestershire-based B-Sure Installations has invested over £70k to launch a new waste management company, B-Sure Recycling.
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2nd March 2023
Silver Jet Insight, a data-driven marketing agency based in Northamptonshire, is ready to take off with a £26k loan.
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16th February 2023
Edwin James Group has received a secondary investment from funds under management by private equity firm Aliter Capital LLP (Aliter). The significant deal will support the Group’s ambitious growth plans.
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15th February 2023
More than 150 businesses have now applied for Made Smarter East Midlands – with two-thirds already going forward to the next stage.
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14th February 2023
Leading experts in Leicestershire have secured a share of £6.5 million of funding from the UK Space Agency to drive forward the country’s space industry.
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14th February 2023
Fifty creative businesses have already applied for places on East Midlands Create Growth - just weeks after the £1.3 million programme went live.
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9th February 2023
Leading Midlands recruitment and retention agency, Macildowie is partnering with Tim Davis from the London Stock Exchange to host its ‘Funding for Growth’ event, sharing insights and expertise for businesses looking to expand.
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8th February 2023
A Northampton-based qualitative research agency, Gobby, has successfully raised nearly £34k funding to take the business to the next stage of growth.
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8th February 2023
Children’s Sensory Therapy Ltd. (“CST”), has secured a funding package from MEIF Maven Debt Finance which is part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (“MEIF”) and managed by Maven Capital Partners.
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2nd February 2023
Start Up Loans, part of the British Business Bank, announces that its programme has facilitated over 100,000 loans worth more than £941 million to businesses throughout the UK. The figure marks a significant milestone for the programme since its creation
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2nd February 2023
A Nottingham-based sports coaching company, Kaizen Sports Group, has successfully raised £56k funding for its business expansion.
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25th January 2023
Mercia Asset Management - one of the UK’s most active capital providers to SMEs - invested over £120m in 159 companies during 2022, with 79% going to businesses outside London.
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20th January 2023
A new wrist device to help control Tourette’s Syndrome is a step closer to being commercialised after University of Nottingham spin-out company Neupulse raised almost £1m in additional funding.
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19th January 2023
A Lincoln-based environmental marketing company has secured £14,500 in funding to be used for creating two new jobs and developing a calculator tool.
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18th January 2023
A Lincoln-based environmental marketing company has secured £14,500 in funding to be used for creating two new jobs and developing a calculator tool.
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18th January 2023
A Nottingham-based drug discovery services provider has accelerated its growth after completing its second acquisition in the space of a year.
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16th January 2023
University of Nottingham spinout, Scintam Engineering, has developed an innovative technology that uses electricity to help relieve a major problem faced within aerospace, automotive and other engineering industries.
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12th January 2023
Up to 50,000 Ugandan lives will be significantly improved after the Ugandan Red Cross Society partnered with a UK charitable foundation to build a manufacturing plant for re-usable sanitary pads.
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21st December 2022
Applications for the third round of TPP’s Inclusive Recruitment Grants were invited from organisations interested in making their recruitment processes more inclusive. Two grants were available, one for a paid employee role and another for a Trustee role.
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15th December 2022
Growth Hubs have combined to win £3m of funding to help increase the skills and productivity of manufacturing businesses in the East Midlands.
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13th December 2022
Leicester College has secured Office for Students funding worth £5,395,187 from 2022-25 to deliver three major higher education capital projects across its main campuses in Leicester.
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13th December 2022
Between July 2022 and September 2022, the number of inbound cross-border deals for Midlands-based companies reached its highest level in 22 years, with 29 deals completed in Q3, according to the latest analysis from Deloitte’s Cross Border Deals Radar.
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13th December 2022
Lincolnshire-based dairy farm, White House Farm, has significantly increased its productivity after investing in a new carbon-efficient cowshed, using £1.05 million of funding from Lloyds Bank.
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5th December 2022
Derbyshire-based specialist contractor Cawarden has added a Komatsu high reach demolition excavator to its equipment portfolio, thanks to fresh funding from Paragon Bank.
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30th November 2022
BDO has posted an 11% increase in revenues to £809m for the financial year 2021/22 with growth across all three of its service lines of audit, tax and advisory.
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29th November 2022
The Sustainable Kitchen has been making and selling vegan products since it first launched in 2022 with the support of the British Business Bank Start Up Loans programme.
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29th November 2022
The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has now invested over £200m into Midlands businesses since its launch in 2017.
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28th November 2022
Housebuilder Rippon Homes has added to the book collection at a school close to its development in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
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22nd November 2022
Chemistry research at the University of Nottingham has been given a significant boost with €3m funding awarded to two projects to advance the fields of synthetic organic chemistry and materials science.
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9th November 2022
New data from Start Up Loans provides a league table of the UK’s top local authorities for start ups since 2012 when the scheme began
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5th November 2022
Experts from the University of Leicester and the Public Health Foundation of India have been awarded nearly £10 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research to help improve the care outcomes of people living with multiple long-term healt
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3rd November 2022
Between the two funds, MEIF Maven Debt Finance have achieved a new milestone, loaning £80m to growing businesses across the East, South East and West Midlands. The debt funds, which are part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (“MEIF”), have been manag
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2nd November 2022
Loughborough-based PR and communications strategy business 1284 used a business growth grant to increase productivity - translating time saved into the launch of a new service.
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1st November 2022
Twelve months ago Harry Green, decided it was time to sell his cleaning pad business in Leicester. After all, he was 95, maybe it was time to close the business!
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1st November 2022
EU’s Clean Aviation programme to proceed with over €700m of funding for 20 aviation research and innovation programmes
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24th October 2022
While Oliver Lockwood was on furlough in 2020 the seed of an idea began to formulate for his future.
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18th October 2022
Nottingham-based Framework Knitters Museum has received funds to upgrade its newly established café and shop – Parker’s Yard - with a discrete and secure reception area.
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17th October 2022
A Nottingham company which has devised a blood test that could revolutionise management of tuberculosis (TB) has raised a further £2.4m to further develop the test and support clinical trials.
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17th October 2022
The latest annual report by YMCA Robin Hood Group reveals how the charity has continued to provide a lifeline to thousands of young and vulnerable people, in spite of the many challenges posed by the pandemic.
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17th October 2022
Loughborough Town Deal has confirmed a £2.5 million grant to help build on the town’s reputation for sporting excellence and harness that knowledge for the good of its residents.
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12th October 2022
Robinson – the manufacturer specialising in value-added custom packaging – has invested more than half a million pounds in state-of-the-art SATE machinery for its UK Paperbox division.
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11th October 2022
Sponsors, partners and supporters of the Love Business Expo met in Loughborough recently to start the countdown to next year’s event.
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11th October 2022
Mansfield Innovation Centre has helped to drive a timely economic boost of more than £1.2m for the area by helping local businesses access grant funding, create new jobs and benefit from intensive business coaching and support.
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10th October 2022
Lincoln-based Naturawell, a plant-based bar and restaurant serving healthy and delicious food and drinks, is among 12 small businesses to be selected as champions of UK start-ups by Start Up Loans, part of the British Business Bank.
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6th October 2022
As the industry comes together at the Institute of Healthcare, Estates, Energy & Management Conference, Derbyshire’s WB Power Services (WBPS) has announced a further £2 million investment in Stage V generator compliance, on top of the £5 million it has al
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4th October 2022
East Midlands businesses claimed £330 million in research and development (R&D) tax credits for the 20/21 financial year, according to HMRC’s latest R&D tax credit statistics, analysed by tax relief specialist Access2Funding, a Ryan company.
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3rd October 2022
Nottingham-based Retail Assist Ltd (“RAL”) has secured a funding package from MEIF Maven Debt Finance (“the Fund”), which is part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund and managed by Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”).
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30th September 2022
UK public are encouraged to understand their finances better in CISI’s Financial Planning Week 3 - 9 October 2022 #FPWUK
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26th September 2022
Providing vital support to the UK’s start ups during a challenging economic period, the British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme has been expanded.
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22nd September 2022
Specialist marketplace lender Assetz Capital have added to their growing Origination team with the appointment of experienced finance professional David Hehir.
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20th September 2022
More than 340 businesses across the East Midlands have so far been supported in the development of their sustainability plans, as a result of the net zero strand of the East Midlands Accelerator project.
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14th September 2022
Belvoir Castle has announced that it will be opening its children’s adventure playground in time for schools’ Halloween half term breaks, as part of a programme of special events and ghostly goings on.
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12th September 2022
Roythornes lead £120 million refinancing deal for Allison Group
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6th September 2022
Key workers in Leicestershire can receive a deposit contribution of up to £15,000 for their new home thanks to David Wilson Homes’ latest offer at Wigston Meadows in Wigston.
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1st September 2022
British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, today announces a commitment of up to £10m to Haatch Ventures (Haatch) through the Regional Angels Programme.
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30th August 2022
Are you a Leicestershire company trading B2B and looking to grow?
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24th August 2022
Leading mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its minority investment in managed IT and cyber services provider Littlefish, to Bowmark Capital following a three-year partnership.
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22nd August 2022
Nottinghamshire County Council has formally submitted a £40m bid to Government for the financing of the planned Toton Link Road.
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19th August 2022
Jobs, homes and business space will be created as £10m is made available for loans which accelerate the creation of new infrastructure in Leicester and Leicestershire.
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19th August 2022
The UK’s leading onshore deep drilling specialist, based in Chesterfield, has secured a seven-figure loan to help finance its work on the construction of two ‘green’ power stations in Ethiopia.
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15th August 2022
A further increase on interest paid to HM Revenue & Customs (‘HMRC’) for late payment of taxes will hit taxpayers who are not up-to-date, and their bills could grow very quickly, say leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.
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15th August 2022
Family business CW Sellors has secured £1.5m in investment to expand its design and manufacturing centre
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11th August 2022
English Premier League (EPL) clubs appear to have bounced back from COVID-19, but lower league clubs continue to face financial challenges, according to a new report published today by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.
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10th August 2022
A new joint research report titled ‘Backing Innovation-led Businesses: the role of public investment’ reveals how the programmes delivered by the British Business Bank, UK Research & Innovation and Innovate UK play a fundamental role in supporting the suc
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9th August 2022
Some of the best ideas in construction come from the small companies that are directly responsible for site production.
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5th August 2022
Amber Valley Borough Council has been allocated £2,978,000 in Government funding to spend on projects to benefit the community and businesses over the next three years.
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5th August 2022
Tax specialists from Leicester based WestBridge Group have advised on the sale of a 22-acre facility on Stephenson Industrial Estate in Coalville to one of the UK’s largest wholesale used vehicle suppliers.
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5th August 2022
Maven Capital Partners continues to back ambitious businesses across the East and South East Midlands via the Midlands Engine Investment Fund.
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4th August 2022
Cheesecake Energy Ltd (CEL), a Nottingham, UK- based energy storage startup has raised £3.5 million (US$4.2 million) in pre-series A funding.
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4th August 2022
Departments, Acoustic Air, and Lighting are the latest to receive investment to bolster and enhance their capabilities and offering to clients.
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4th August 2022
Pall-Ex Group Limited, the owner of two UK based palletised freight distribution networks, headquartered in Coalville, Leicestershire, has just capitalised on an opportunity to purchase 66 trucks that were previously being leased thanks to rapid support f
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3rd August 2022
The University of Nottingham has awarded more than £3.8m in funding as part of its Aerospace Unlocking Potential (UP) programme, after announcing another round of funding for four Midlands-based businesses.
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2nd August 2022
Nottinghamshire entrepreneur Thomas Wyman has secured a £15,000 Start-Up Loan from First Enterprise - Enterprise Loans through the Start-Up Loans Scheme backed by British Business Bank to offer vibrant performances to premium events.
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26th July 2022
Over 10,000 SME owners have applied for a single £25,000 Business Boost grant from one of the UK’s largest small business insurance providers Simply Business.
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20th July 2022
There’s been a lot of talk about pivoting to survive for businesses during and after Covid19, but what about when you’re ready to start a new business and have to divert the idea before you’ve even begun?
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18th July 2022
Chesterfield’s new flagship enterprise centre, which will support new and expanding businesses to respectively start and grow in the town, is now officially open.
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18th July 2022
New analysis by the life sciences industry association Medilink Midlands reveals it has helped the region’s life sciences companies to secure investment of £77 million, which has contributed to the creation of high level jobs for the Midlands.
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13th July 2022
Ron Brooks Toyota has donated to Scargill Primary School in response to the pressures children have faced in the last few years that have affected their routines.
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11th July 2022
Burton headquartered pitched roof tile manufacturer, Russell Roof Tiles (RRT) has completed a £2m upgrade at its Scottish plant.
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6th July 2022
Plans have been approved for a £5m green infrastructure project linked to aLow Carbon Innovation Hub that will support tech companies as they focus ondeveloping low carbon technologies.
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6th July 2022
Business owners in Leicestershire are being urged to check if they are eligible for a growth grant from the Business Gateway Growth Hub before funds run out. Currently around £400,000 remains in the pot for the Business Growth Grant aimed at Leicester and
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5th July 2022
Luxury British kitchen manufacturer Kesseler is set to expand into new markets after securing grant funding to buy specialist machinery for its Nottinghamshire factory.
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29th June 2022
The LLEP’s Business Gateway Growth Hub supported more than 1,500 businesses - with a combined turnover topping £2billion - during just 12 months.
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24th June 2022
Nottinghamshire County Council is preparing a bid worth approximately £40m to fund the planned Toton Link Road as part of the government’s ‘Levelling Up’ agenda.
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22nd June 2022
One of the UK’s fastest-growing financial co-operatives has partnered with Engage, the community banking-as-a-service division of Contis-Solaris, to launch its own branded credit union debit card and current account.
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22nd June 2022
Equity investment in UK smaller businesses reached record levels of £18.1bn in 2021, as revealed by The British Business Bank’s Small Business Equity Tracker 2022, published today.
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21st June 2022
OakNorth Bank – the UK bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs – has provided a £3.8M loan to The Signet Collection, to acquire Barnsdale Lodge Hotel in Oakham, Rutland, and refurbish and upgrade it to a 4-star Signet-branded spa resort.
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20th June 2022
An online platform that will encourage EV usage and car sharing in Derbyshire has been awarded £100,000 funding from Sub-national Transport Body Midlands Connect, it has been announced.
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18th June 2022
The Pomegranate Theatre is set to temporarily close its doors later this month in preparation for a multi-million-pound renovation project that will create an enhanced and improved customer experience.
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16th June 2022
Leaders at internationally acclaimed North Nottinghamshire outdoor activity centre Walesby Forest have praised the widespread support it received to ensure it survived the pandemic.
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16th June 2022
With the Government’s net-zero target for greenhouse gas emissions set for 2050, many businesses are making changes toward more sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices.
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16th June 2022
£29 million national scanning facility will help the UK lead the world in ultra-high field imaging to transform understanding of the brain and treatment of disease
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