Book your place at the LEP Summit 2017
The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP and the Cambridge News are hosting the LEP Summit 2017 on Friday 30th June and now is the time to book your free place.
Eliminating operator error to ensure safety of technical divers
The AII-4001 Oxygen Helium Trimix Analyzer from Analytical Industries Inc. eliminates the risk of operator error in compensating for environmental factors in analysing breathing gas mixtures. In a new application note, AII describe how the analyzer ensures diver safety with its automatic environmental compensation.
New product ranges from Michell Instruments at OffShore Europe
Michell Instruments’ range of moisture and hydrocarbon dew point sensors and analyzers have some exciting new additions at OffShore Europe this year.
Suffolk Day – a great opportunity to celebrate county’s civil engineering heritage
Today (Wednesday 21 June) is the first ever Suffolk Day to celebrate the county’s many attractions. These include some brilliant civil engineering structures from past and present.
Homebase now stocks PlantGrow chemical free fertiliser and lawn food
The PlantGrow team is delighted to announce that three PlantGrow products will be available in 200 Homebase stores later this week.
Points of View: Interest rates
This week Oliver Phillips of NW Brown focuses on interest rates.
Conscious Communications cements global offering
Conscious Communications has joined thenetworkone, the international network of independent best-in-class agencies, to expand its international offering and enhance the support provided to existing global clients.
WannaCry exposed gaping risk window between identifying vulnerability risk and fixing it
When WannaCry hit, the world learned that for two months a patch had been available that would have prevented the problem. But its victims were those that hadn’t yet deployed this patch.
Apollo's mission to drive therapeutic innovation
The stirrings of a revolution are starting to ripple through hundreds of laboratories. It’s a revolution that aims to result in new medicines – faster and with fewer failures – and it’s being led by three UK universities and three global pharmaceutical companies.
Return of the Titan
Cambridge University Botanic Garden is awaiting the Return of the Titan. One of the two Titan Arums held in the Garden’s collection of plants will very soon produce another huge, magnificent flower along with the noxious smell that accompanies it.
Price Bailey announces new board member
Price Bailey is delighted to announce that Paul Cullen has been elected to the Management Board effective immediately.
Magna to produce BMW 5-Series plug-in hybrid
BMW's new 530e plug-in hybrid will be produced at Magna's contract manufacturing plant in Graz, Austria, starting in summer 2017.
New policy set to make city more accessible
Cutting the clutter that gets in the way of people moving freely around Cambridge’s streets is the aim of a proposed policy that is set to be discussed by councillors.
Self-service image library brings host of benefits to The University of Stirling
The University of Stirling invests in Third Light, Cambridge based digital asset management developers, to manage its valuable bank of digital media. The university's marketing department explains how the clever media library system has helped save time and effort, while reducing workload and duplication.
Denis Kaminskiy, co-founder of Arcus Global, honoured in National Enterprise Awards
The Annual Enterprise Awards, which celebrate the very best entrepreneurs in the UK technology industry, is uniquely focused on founders, rather than companies. Denis Kaminskiy, co-founder of Arcus Global, was shortlisted in the Public Sector Entrepreneur category.
Uptake of shared parental leave hindered by gender pay gap and employer pressure
Office Genie recently looked into shared parental leave and the factors affecting its uptake in the UK. In a survey of 1,000 British workers, it discovered the primary reason for low adoption is the gender pay gap the programme is designed, in part, to be tackling. Employer pressure on partners not to take the time off also plays a significant part in the scheme’s unpopularity.
Eve Waldron Design completes project at West Court, Jesus College
Eve Waldron Design has completed work on the interiors for Jesus College’s West Court, one phase of a larger project masterminded by architects Niall McLaughlin. The two consultancies have been working closely together to ensure the schemes, materials and details complement each other.
Cambridge Nanotherm partners with Inabata for global sales and distribution
Cambridge Nanotherm, producer of innovative Nanoceramic thermal management technology for LEDs and electronics, today announces a partnership with Japanese sales and distribution giant Inabata. The partnership adds a global sales and distribution arm to the UK-based company.
Is it the end of the 9-5 employee?
The 9-5 working lifestyle isn’t as common as it once was. Employees are being offered increasingly flexible hours, interchangeable working environments and alternative routes to success, but what exactly is changing? And what does that mean for the average employee?
How to put off an employer in 140 characters
When job hunting on social sites, it is good practice to speak as if you were in an interview. It is important to show your personality, but without putting off potential employers.
New Data Protection Regulations - A guide to GDPR
Some useful information from James Tarding at Ashtons Legal regarding the new and upcoming Data Protection Law - GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
UK elections and social media
Direct Political campaigning and advertising on radio and television is banned in the UK but nonetheless, that does not prohibit parties from advertising their general election candidacy campaigns on social media. Parties -as with all previous elections the past decade – are placing paid-for political adverts and campaign videos on social media to attract a potential audience of millions.
Cambridge Index gains 1.2%
The Cambridge Index advanced 1.2% or 226.8 points to finish at 23,225.3, as Index heavyweights such as Johnson Matthey, DS Smith and Greene King posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Major award for Cambridge researcher takes prostate biopsy device into clinical application
Researchers in Cambridge have secured funding of nearly £800,000 from the NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme to take a novel test for prostate cancer from a prototype to a CE-marked device for clinical application.
Another biocatalitic partnership for Strem Chemicals with Catalytic Innovations, LLC
Strem Chemicals is offering Iridium and Cobalt based water oxidation catalysts, providing research for high quality, cost effective zinc micronutrient fertilizers for a growing world.