North East manufacturing specialist Express Engineering has sold its aerospace division to focus on developing its subsea energy products business.
Gateshead-based Express Engineering, a global leader in innovative manufacturing, assembly and testing solutions for the subsea oil and gas industry, has sold its aerospace division for an undisclosed sum.
The aerospace division...
Five years into the Paris Agreement—and in the lead-up to the 2021 UN climate negotiations in Glasgow—UK cities are taking bold climate action.
Cities worldwide have much to learn from their UK peers’ successes and challenges, according to a new report released Thursday by the 1000 CITIES Initiative, which aims to...
£6.7 million of funding has been awarded to proposed heat network schemes in the North East of England today through the Government’s £320 million Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP).
Seaham Garden Village and Newcastle University are among the schemes to have been awarded funding through HNIP, which has now awarded...
A Forward-thinking app that had been put on the back burner is now proving a great tool to help the hospitality industry fight some of the challenges caused by Covid-19.
And its creators have quickly adapted it yet again so that it can still benefit businesses during the latest lockdown.
W8R...
A North East college has created a unique and highly bespoke approach to help employers recruit young talent from across the region.
Working with Home Group, one of the UK’s largest housing associations, Gateshead College designed a bespoke data analyst apprenticeship to help the organisation appoint a new apprentice data...
TruStack, based in Cramlington, specialises in Agile Working Solutions and Cybersecurity and has enabled hundreds of organisations to work from home during the recent lockdowns.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show a quarter of all employees are currently working from home (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronavirustheukeconomyandsocietyfasterindicators/latest#social-impacts-of-the-coronavirus-on-great-britain), but this number could increase if...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published its first Clinical Knowledge Summaries for GPs, dedicated to the COVID-19 outbreak and how to manage potentially infected patients.
This official evidence-based information for General Practices across England has been authored by the North-East based editor, and former GP,...
Researchers from Newcastle University have come up with a novel way of dealing with the infections patients tend to get after surgery.
They believe that honey – specifically, a medical-grade variant of manuka honey – could be the key to coping with this common problem.
Doctors often use surgical mesh to...
It seems that all the fireworks and bonfires on Guy Fawkes Night can send Newcastle’s levels of air pollution soaring.
Figures for Bonfire Night last year showed that – between 8.00 pm and midnight – the amount of pollution particles in the city’s atmosphere rocketed.
Starting from a daytime measurement of...
The world has drastically transformed in the last two centuries, and yet the manner in which academic institutions prepare us for our professional careers has remained stagnant. It is still fixated on the needs of an industrial age, a learning structure that is very much outdated and questionable for...
