Setting new boundaries with drones - aerial surveying takes off in Cambridge
Ely Aviation was recently asked by one of its clients to perform a detailed aerial survey of a piece of land for the purposes of defining new boundaries.
Saturday course at Cambridge TV School starts soon
An eight week Saturday course in TV production skills starts at Cambridge TV School on 22 September.
LGBT Foundation launches ground-breaking research
LGBT Foundation’s Women’s Programme has launched a major piece of research into the sexual wellbeing of women who have sex with women.
Further instrument training courses approved by the Royal Society of Chemistry for CPD
Anthias Consulting is delighted to announce approval of its Agilent GC-MS instrument training courses by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Local council and Hill celebrate delivery of 20 new homes in Great Abington
UK housebuilder, Hill, together with South Cambridgeshire District Council, have marked the opening of a new development of 20 homes, 40 per cent of which are affordable, in Great Abington.
Need for speed drives £9 billion superfast broadband boost
Local businesses in areas covered by the Government’s rollout of superfast broadband have seen a combined £9 billion increase in turnover since the boost to their broadband speed, new figures have revealed.
Team work from DZP Technologies and Strem Chemicals UK yields unique adhesive
Working with Strem Chemicals UK to market their exciting new materials, its colleagues at DZP Technologies have released a unique one-part aqueous silver conductive adhesive which forms a flexible bond after curing at 120°C called SA0850.
Life at Featurespace: more than just business as usual
Your average experience with Featurespace’s Customer Support team is anything but average. This expanding team is not just ‘business as usual’ when it comes to its customers' delivery phase, they make every customer experience truly personal.
Female FTSE chiefs pocket £3m less than men
Research into the top FTSE 100 companies, conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), the professional body for management and leadership, commissioned by the Sunday Times, has found that female chief executives earn less than half as much as their male counterparts overall.
Too many blokes?
Eastyoke Projects cites an interesting piece in The Economist, highlighting the importance of having a mixed sex team...
A video tour! And half price studio hire at Cambridge TV
Cambridge TV has made a video for time-pressed creative people who want to see around its space. And if you need to hire a studio for your project, its new half price deal on fixed dates gives amazing value for money.
Monsanto case reaffirms that robotics will shape the future of agrochemicals
A US court recently held Monsanto’s glyphosate responsible for causing cancer in a ground keeper, awarding $289M of damages. This is a critical verdict in that it demonstrates that glyphosate - as one of the most popular non-selective herbicides worldwide- is on shaky ground.
Asset structural integrity seminar highlights importance of constraint effects in fracture
The Structural Integrity Technical Group of The Welding Institute (TWI) and the UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI) recently addressed a topic that is currently of substantial research and industrial interest by jointly holding a full day’s Constraint Effects in Fracture seminar.
UKIPO’s updated Guidance on Brexit – August 2018
Abel & Imray previously reported that the UK and the EU had, in principle and subject to the agreement of the draft Withdrawal Agreement, agreed that the owners of existing EU trade mark and design registrations would become the holders of comparable UK registrations at the time of Brexit.
RiverRhee's new one-day Supervisors' course and other courses coming up in September
RIverRhee's new one-day Supervisors' course kicks off in September, an alternative to its traditional three-day Introduction to Management which will also be running that month. For those interested in more individual skills, RIverRhee also has the half-day Effective Influencing and Communication course, and more one-day courses coming up in October and November.
The Blossom Charity supports aspiring female leaders
The Blossom Charity has supported five women from deserving organisations in the East of England to develop their leadership skills by sponsoring places on the Women’s Leadership Programme, run by professional recruitment specialists Pure and strategic HR consultancy People & Performance.
Digitising medicine: Healthera raises £3m Series A to scale across the UK
Cambridge-based digital health platform raises £3m Series A, led by ADV with participation from Cambridge Enterprise, to scale its solution across the UK.
Stansted Airport reports its busiest July
London Stansted Airport saw more than 2.7 million passengers travel through the airport in July as the summer holiday season got underway.
LMK Thermosafe Ltd expands in China
LMK Thermosafe Ltd has established a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise in China to build upon the growth of recent years through its previous Representative Office. Based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the subsidiary company - Inteliheat Technology (Chengdu) will deliver support to existing and new customers and sales partners throughout China.
Stone King shortlisted for Law Firm of the Year award
The Cambridge law firm Stone King has been shortlisted in the Large Law Firm of the Year category of the Law Society’s Excellence Awards 2018.
Headway Cambridgeshire encourages others to apply for Tesco Bags of Help funding
Community projects in Cambridge could receive a cash injection thanks to Tesco’s Bags of Help initiative.
Chemical shows promise at killing glioblastoma cells in mouse studies
Scientists have identified a synthetic chemical, named KHS101, which causes the death of aggressive brain tumour cells from patients in laboratory tests.
Micro-targeting: the good, the bad and the unethical
Micro-targeting can be a legitimate next-generation marketing tool or a deeply unethical practice, depending on who’s using it.
Growing a brand from a seed...
PlantGrow is a completely new type of natural fertiliser developed from a bi-product of agricultural anaerobic digestion. Dynamic Creative has helped to grow the brand...
Stormzy unveils Cambridge scholarships
British musician Stormzy has announced the ‘The Stormzy Scholarship’, a brand new studentship scheme for University of Cambridge students which will see four British black students provided with financial support during their degree courses.