UK finalists awarded funding through the joint UK-Canada £1.2 million Aqualunar Challenge to develop new lunar water purifying technologies. the Aqualunar Challenge is a £1.2 million international prize funded by the UK Space Agency's International Bilateral Fund and delivered by Challenge Works.
Britain's top hospitality groups recorded year-on-year sales growth of 2.9% in June 2024, the latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker reveals. The figure is down slightly from May's rate of 3.6%, but ahead of the current rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, and is the eighth period of growth in the last nine months.
Carpetright Ltd has announced it has entered administration on 22 July 2024. This page provides information on how to claim redundancy or register as a creditor. Carpetright Ltd entered administration on 22 July 2024. Zelf Hussain, Rachael Wilkinson, and Peter Dickens from PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC) were appointed as joint administrators.
Rachel Springall, Finance Expert at Moneyfactscompare.co.uk, said, "Fixed mortgage rates are on the downward trend, which will be a relief to borrowers looking to refinance. There is still much more room for improvement, but it has taken a few months for the lowest fixed mortgage rates to drop below the 4% mark.
The Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's response to the Module One Report of the Covid-19 Inquiry. With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the covid-19 inquiry.
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into World Aid Convoy. The regulator is investigating aid charity World Aid Convoy over concerns that the charity has links to a Hamas supporting news agency.
The Highland Council is seeking contractors to tender for a Highland Energy Efficiency Framework (domestic and non-domestic). Chair of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee, Cllr Ken Gowans said: "It is vital that local businesses take this opportunity and attend the ‘Meet the Buyer Event' being organised for them in Inverness.
stl, DE&S and industry have worked together to enable the development of this critical new capability and help prepare the UK's armed forces for the future. Speed of light laser weapon trialled for first time on a British Army vehicle.
Across the world, over 800 million people spend their days hungry. More than 2 billion have limited access to food.
The Pwc report July 2024 looks at the economy. The new Labour Government has placed economic growth at the heart of their plans for the next five years.
A new Resolution Foundation paper details some of the major challenges facing the new Government as it sets out policies to decarbonise the UK economy at the pace required by our legally binding carbon targets. It assesses recent trends in decarbonisation and how they will need to change in the future, how this could impact the living standards of households on low- to middle-incomes, and steps that should be taken over the next five years to ensure that the burden of decarbonisation does not unduly fall on poorer families.
Women in Scotland have reached a "landmark moment" in business, with the number of female entrepreneurs matching the number of men for the first time. A report has found that women were starting and running new businesses at virtually the same rate as men last year.
The benefit cap has been pretty much laser-focused on increasing the measured rate of child poverty. Paul Johnson writes for the Times.
In the King's Speech last week, Labour announced 40 new bills covering areas from planning and green energy, to fiscal locks and a national wealth fund. What can these bills tell us about Labour's economic strategy? We speak with IFS economists, Christine Farquharson and Ben Zaranko..
Pensions are in the news because they very obviously are not working for people in the UK. The trouble is, the solutions assume a bit of financial engineering, and pouring some more money into the bottomless pit of the City of London will solve the problems.
Big business pays a large proportion of the UK's taxes. They should be detailing exactly how much in their accounts.
A project that aims to capture, transport and safely store CO2 emissions from across Scotland will be granted £2 million from the Scottish Government. The new funding will be used to explore how a pipeline could transport Carbon Dioxide from Scotland's central belt to the North East.
A report on the Nursing and Midwifery council - Independent Culture Review will sound familiar in Highland. It reveals many problems.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), in collaboration with its subsidiary Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), has awarded two contracts to establish an innovative partnership for the enhanced management of asbestos waste. The Asbestos Innovation Partnership (AIP) will work with the NDA, NWS and the supply chain, to test and develop new solutions to treat asbestos waste, helping to deliver efficiencies and enable more effective waste management.
Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has announced over £100 million of funding for cutting-edge aerospace research and development projects. £103 million government-industry funding for cutting-edge new green aerospace projects, supporting thousands of high-wage jobs across the UK.
