Birketts’ seminars investigate 'Being reasonable about making adjustments for disabled employees'
Birketts' latest Early Bird seminar series looks at the duty placed on employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees. Seminars are being held throughout the Eastern region, including Cambridge.
Sepura staff raise £4,000 for Arthur Rank Hospice
Sepura staff have combined forces to raise over £4,000 for the Arthur Rank Hospice, bringing the charity closer to the £100,000 target for its Hospice at Home service.
Blue plaque celebrates Dame Leah Manning
Education pioneer and MP Dame Leah Manning will be remembered at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge on Wednesday 15 January as people come together to celebrate a new blue plaque in her honour.
Points of View: Global Markets
This week NW Brown & Co's Chief Investment Officer, Jason Butler, looks back at markets over the past year.
Reliance exhibits at SLAS2020
Reliance Precision Limited is pleased to announce it will be exhibiting on Stand number 351, at the forthcoming SLAS2020 International Conference and Exhibition.
Magazine features Research and Innovation Highlights from ARU
Browse Anglia Ruskin University's (ARU's) latest Research and Innovation Highlights magazine and find out about some of the university's latest pieces of reseach.
PhoreMost and Boehringer Ingelheim enter multi-project drug discovery collaboration
PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, today announced it has entered into a multi-project drug discovery collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world-leading pharmaceutical companies developing innovative therapies for diseases with unsatisfactory treatments.
PredictImmune PROFILE trial recruits over 200 patients
PredictImmune's PROFILE trial, the first biomarker stratified study for Crohn’s disease, recruits over 200 patients.
Cambridge Index falls 1.7%
The Cambridge Index declined 487.9 points or 1.7% to close at 27,938.2, as the top five index heavyweights posted weekly losses to their share prices.
How your winter clear-out can make a difference to families in your area
A charity is pledging to continue caring for all the clothes people throw away as part of their winter clear-out, so it can continue caring for the region’s most vulnerable children and their families.
Get involved with Big Energy Saving Week 2020
As part of Big Energy Saving Week, which takes place 20th-26th January 2020, Cambridgeshire-based charity PECT can help you discover how to reduce your household’s carbon footprint and save on energy costs.
Young, black, working class and female – and not in that order!
Society has so many misconceptions surrounding different demographics, and as a young, black, working-class female I sometimes feel like I’m in never ending battles made up of stereotypes, myths and restrictions – particularly in the workplace!
Marshall signs contract with US Government for Kuwait Air Force KC-130J
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has signed a multi-year contract with the United States Government to support the Kuwait Air Force fleet of KC-130J tanker aircraft.
Reasons to recruit in January
January is the perfect time to advertise your up-and-coming jobs because candidates have had a long break and have taken time to reflect over the December/festive period. This will give recruitment agencies more time to work in the background and for your job adverts to have more online presence during a busy period.
Birketts helps secures sale of UK based video game developer The Bitmap Brothers
Birketts has assisted Mike Montgomery, the founder of renowned British games developer, The Bitmap Brothers (Bitmap), in the sale of its entire portfolio to independent game studio, Rebellion Developments, for an undisclosed amount.
CyanConnode secures £3.3m purchase order in India
CyanConnode Holdings plc, a world leader in Narrowband Radio Frequency (RF) Smart Mesh Networks, is pleased to announce that it has received the formal purchase order relating to the Letter of Intent (LOI) received from partner Genus Power Infrastructures Limited, as announced on 16 December 2019. The purchase order, worth £3.3 million, includes a full set of terms and conditions under…
How to stay focused in the workplace
Do you have urgent tasks to complete and are struggling to focus? Need to minimise your distractions and not sure where to start? When you are concentrating and suddenly you are distracted, even if this is for five minutes to one hour, then you are becoming less productive and gradually wasting your time.
The power of preparation
Do you want to make sure that event you're working on goes brilliantly? Then no matter how busy you are, start investing some time in it right now...
Flu outbreak at hospital
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), which runs Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie, is asking people not to visit friends and relatives at the hospital unless absolutely necessary, due to increased cases of flu.
New video: Optidew 401 chilled mirror hygrometer for climatic chamber verification
The fast-responding Optidew 401 chilled mirror hygrometer from Michell Instruments makes an ideal humidity reference for climatic chamber verification.
Cracking a career change
Are you thinking of changing career for the New Year? Simon Hall says: "I did it, and it was tough, but ultimately hugely rewarding and fulfilling. This article gives you a list of tips to make such a big move a big success..."
Crest Nicholson set to launch new development near Huntingdon
Award-winning housebuilder, Crest Nicholson, will launch its brand new Alconbury Weald development near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, this month.
A new employee benefits specialist has opened in Cambridge
EBCam Ltd – Cambridge’s newest employee benefits consultancy - opened its doors yesterday (2 January 2020). With over 30 years of experience, EBCam Ltd has been founded by James Bolton, Steph Gordon and Laurie Clark following a Management Buyout from their former employer Scrutton Bland Financial Services Ltd.
Cambridge University Hospitals patients to benefit as more day surgery services offered at Ely
Patients should benefit from reduced waiting times following the announcement that more surgical services are to be provided at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) Day Surgery Unit at Ely.
Slashing energy could make Nobel prize-winning cryoEM microscopes more affordable
Electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) – which won the 2017 Nobel prize – could be made 10 times cheaper by reducing the energy of the microscope and creating better detectors for imaging low energy electrons, according to a proof-of-principle demonstration by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.