Documentary screening will show the life-changing power of the cargo bike
The award-winning cycling film of the year, MOTHERLOAD, is coming to Cambridge. Hosted by local charity Camcycle as part of the Cambridge Festival of Cycling, the crowdsourced documentary about the cargo bike movement will be shown at the Clay Farm Centre in Trumpington on Saturday (28 September).
Birketts appoints two Senior Associates
Birketts has announced the appointment of Sarah Overy as a Senior Associate in its esteemed Family team and Gillian Creed as a Senior Associate in its highly reputable Banking Team. Both Sarah and Gillian are based in Birketts’ Cambridge office, but will support colleagues across all four offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich and Norwich.
Cambridge awarded prestigious Purple Flag accreditation
It’s official: Cambridge is a safe and vibrant destination for evening and night-time dining, entertainment and culture.
Stocks in Focus: Babcock International Group Plc
This week Girish Ramrous of NW Brown Wealth Management looks at Babcock, the highly-specialised engineering support services group that delivers complex and critical support to the defence, oil & gas and education sectors among others.
Event opens minds to mental health
An event aimed at destigmatising mental health is being held at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) next month.
Medovate named ‘Most innovative medical device development company’ in Eastern England
Medovate, the Cambridge-based medical device company, has been named ‘Most Innovative Medical Device Development Company’ in Eastern England in Global Health & Pharma’s (GHP's) 2019 Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards.
Conscious Communications celebrates a summer of new client wins
Award-winning public relations and marketing agency, Conscious Communications, is celebrating a summer of new client wins.
Reliance licenses its Additive Manufacturing technology
Reliance Precision Limited is delighted to announce that, following investment from venture capital company Longwall Venture Partners LLP and the Angel CoFund, Wayland Additive Limited will commercialise breakthrough innovations developed by Reliance.
Delfingen trusts Darktrace AI to fight back on behalf of humans
Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, announced that Delfingen, a premier automotive supplier with locations in more than 21 countries, has chosen its AI platform to protect the company’s vast digital infrastructure against fast-moving and sophisticated cyber-threats.
NatWest and Featurespace partner for real-time, enterprise-wide fraud prevention and transaction monitoring
NatWest has agreed a strategic partnership with Featurespace to profile and monitor payments and account activity to prevent fraud and scams using Featurespace’s ARIC™ platform. The platform has the ability to detect and reduce third-party fraud losses and prevent overall fraud before the point of payment.
What’s next for homes, jobs and the environment in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire?
The conversation to help create “the most important document most people have never heard of” has begun after a report was published setting out questions on how people live, work and play in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire.
Study investigates food recall response time
Speed is crucial when tainted food products are recalled. A new study co-authored by Dr Benn Lawson of Cambridge Judge Business School looks at the effect of geography and industry clusters on the responsiveness of food producers to recalls originating in their supply chains.
Scientists hone in on DNA differences behind immune diseases
Scientists are one step closer to discovering the causes of immune diseases such as asthma, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. Research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, GSK and Biogen, under the Open Targets initiative, has shown that thousands of differences in DNA between individuals, associated with immune diseases, are linked with the switching-on of a specific subtype of immune cells.
It’s in our own hands to keep grenades, toilet seats and disco lights out of recycling
A grenade, toilet seat and disco lights are on a list of items that people across Greater Cambridge have wrongly put into their blue bins for recycling.
Cambridge Festival of Ideas: can we harness artificial intelligence and just where is technology taking us?
From the consequences of systems that think far beyond human abilities to social media hate speech, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas examines the ongoing positive and negative impacts of technology on our lives.
Google visits school in Cambridge to boost kids' online safety
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner last week visited Bewick Bridge Community Primary School at Fulbourn to discuss online safety with young people in the area. The event was hosted by Google to highlight its 'Be Internet Legends' programme.
Cambridge shines brightly in Tech Nation report
Cambridge is on course for another bumper year of tech investment, having seen $487m of venture capital invested in digital tech companies in 2018.
Winning picture book is love letter to Lowestoft
Paula White from Lowestoft, Suffolk, has won this year’s Templar Illustration Prize, which comes with a £750 first prize and the chance of being published by Templar Publishing, a children’s book imprint of Bonnier Books UK.
Cambridge Index drops 1.8%
The Cambridge Index declined 460.7 points or 1.8% to close at 25240.6, as Index heavyweights such as Johnson Matthey and DS Smith posted weekly losses to their share prices.
Swedish Radio Supply signs new agreement with Region Värmland
Sepura partner Swedish Radio Supply is proud to announce it has once again secured the trust of Region Värmland, signing an agreement to provide them with the latest products in radio communication and applications for their businesses.
Fluidic Analytics welcomes Dr Joe Keegan as Chairman
Fluidic Analytics Ltd, a pioneer in protein analysis, announces that Dr Joe Keegan is joining the company as Chairman. Joe brings over 30 years of experience in the life sciences industry and joins Fluidic at an exciting time of growth and expansion as the company prepares for the upcoming launch of its revolutionary new instrument for protein interaction analysis - the Fluidity One-W.
APT boosts R&D resources with new Innomech systems
Aston Particle Technologies (APT) has significantly expanded its in-house R&D capabilities by investing in two benchtop systems – designed by Ely-based GB Innomech (Innomech) – to prepare small quantities of blended pharmaceutical powders for use in its formulation development projects for pharmaceutical companies.
Podcast covers a multi-million dollar trade sale and a contract with Apple
The latest episode of the business podcast Scaling, Failing & Prevailing talks to experienced serial entrepreneur Steve Barlow.
Abcodia partners with Wuxi High-Tech Zone Government
Abcodia, the leader in ovarian cancer early detection, today announces its partnership with the Wuxi National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (WND) supporting Abcodia’s expansion into China.