Bidwells Elves sell charity cookbook at Waitrose
Leading property consultancy Bidwells' charity recipe book, Make me, Eat me!, is being sold at Waitrose Trumpington on 17 and 22 December.
Science and Innovation Strategy embraces design as key to growth
Design Council strongly welcomes the government’s Science & Innovation Strategy today, which has set out a clear 10-year vision. The Strategy recognises successful innovation requires design and contains renewed emphasis on the importance of places and cities for the UK’s science base.
Over 3000 children in the East of England will face this Christmas homeless
New government figures released this week show that 3,311 children in the East of England will face waking up homeless this Christmas morning – a rise of 5% since June.
Huppert welcomes month on month fall in unemployment
Cambridge’s unemployment figures continue to fall and more and more young people are finding work.
Huppert welcomes news city could get £5m New Homes Bonus
MP Julian Huppert has welcomed the news that Cambridge could receive almost £5 million in New Homes Bonus from the government, as well as £4.2 million going to Cambridgeshire County Council.
Cambridge Regional College opens new painting and decorating department
A new purpose-built painting workshop, with its own two-storey house, has opened at Cambridge Regional College – enabling students and apprentices to train in industry-standard workshops.
Tube Map is given some backbone
Iconic Tube Map transformed to show how the University fibre-optic network 'travels' around the city.
January Sales come early at Downing College
A Cambridge College is offering event organisers an early opportunity to bag a bargain for One Day Meetings held in January and February.
Birketts advises on sale of one of largest commercial property sites in East Anglia this year
Birketts, the top 100 law firm based in the East of England, has advised McTear Williams & Wood on the sale of the former national distribution centre of Hawkin’s Bazaar on Beccles Business Park at Ellough.
30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
The digital revolution and the recent growth of mobile technologies have been key drivers of change for SMEs over the past three decades, according to the 30th anniversary issue of the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain, published by The Open University Business School.
CUB’s Christmas present to the Trussell Trust
In the spirit of the season of giving CUB has made a donation of £200 to the Trussell Trust to fund local foodbanks.
Croydon businesses club together to get a £20,000 superfast Christmas boost
A business park near Royston has received an early Christmas present for their tenants with over £20,000 of funding awarded to install superfast broadband.
Broadcom introduces first GPS-enabled device for satellite outdoor units
New integration features enable satellite TV operators to accurately track equipment and geo-lock content
Season's Greetings from Cambridge Sensotec
Cambridge Sensotec would like to thank you for your continued support throughout the past year and wish you all the best for 2015.
Best practice approaches to efficient data management
The volume and complexity of the sustainability data organisations need to collect is constantly growing.
Leon, the naturally healthy fast food option, opens at Stansted
Leon, the naturally healthy fast food option opened its 21st restaurant at Stansted Airport today offering passengers low calorie healthy options to either enjoy in the departure lounge or take away to have on-board and is the latest stepping stone on the £80million transformation taking place to improve services and facilities for passengers.
Design Council Spark
Design Council Spark is a new product innovation fund to uncover the UK's next great inventions. Apply now for a chance to win a place on the Design Council's 20 week bespoke support programme, as well as up to £65,000 investment to help bring your physical product prototype or idea to market.
Gays and lesbians face bias worldwide
Anglia Ruskin academic produces report for World Bank/IZA World of Labor project
The art of apologising
‘Sorry’ shouldn’t be so hard a word, says research co-authored by David De Cremer.
New year, new skills?
Start the new year by learning new skills! Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration January calendar includes courses to help you learn to present with confidence, and to master project management.
Tame your computer - countdown to Christmas!
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to find out how many working days are left in 2014 (Microsoft Excel*)...
£45 million funding pot for innovative Bio-Tech projects
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are to invest £45m in major integrated research and development projects through the Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst.
Cambridge Index declines 3%
The Cambridge Index declined 3% or 486.25 points to 15,929.5, as the share prices of nine of the top ten index heavyweights fell during the week.
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Engineering laboratory handover marks new era of research and development at TWI
It has taken just 54 weeks to reach the completion phase in the construction of the first of three buildings in a £43 million site expansion project at TWI in Cambridge. This week saw the handover of the new large-scale engineering and test facility to TWI as Francis Shiner, Managing Director of local construction company SDC met with Chief Executive Christoph Wiesner to complete the official…