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Cell and gene therapies: How to encourage and promote the move to market
The evolution of advanced therapy medicinal products, or ATMPs, is bringing real world results, write James Fry, partner, and Isabel Teare, senior legal adviser from leading law firm Mills & Reeve. The number of cell and gene therapy products now on the market around the world is near the 100 mark, according to recent research …
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Large-scale computing market set to grow to £38bn: Is Cambridge and the UK ready to cash in?
Having witnessed the exponential growth in High-Performance Computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud consumption, and the importance for power-hungry, data-driven sectors to be sustainably responsible, it is clear that any tech predictions for 2022 will need to cover off the recent guidance given by our government. In its recent report, ‘Large-scale Computing: The Case …
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Summer Jersey service from Humberside expanded as confidence returns to travel
Eastern Airways has built extra capacity into the summer service to Jersey from Humberside as it anticipates strong domestic tourism continuing well into 2022. The weekly Saturday flights begin again on May 21, running through until late September. Eastern brought back the Channel Islands connection with CI Travel Group and Premier Holidays last year, with …
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WH Smith faces investor pay revolt amid cost-of-living crisis
The high street retailer WH Smith has been plunged into a major pay row with investors amid heightened tensions over boardroom rewards as Britain grapples with a deepening crisis over pressure on household bills.Sky News has learnt that three of the main proxy advisers which issue guidance to City shareholders ahead of annual meetings have …
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A shopkeeper ‘to his core’: Former supermarket boss Lord John Sainsbury dies
Lord John Sainsbury of Preston Candover – the former chairman of the supermarket chain – has died aged 94.The supermarket’s current chairman and chief executive announced the death of the Baron on Friday evening, saying he had lived a “remarkable life”. Martin Scicluna said: “We are all deeply saddened to learn of the death of …
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IP in 2022 – What next and where?
Intellectual Property (IP) has changed much less than many other sectors since 2019 – largely because it is, as its name implies, intellectual, writes Patent attorney Andrew Bentham of J A Kemp in Cambridge.  Notwithstanding the pandemic, technology companies found ways to continue research and patenting, brands needed to maintain their competitive edge, and of …
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MP writes to Wilko CEO and raises closures with Jacob Rees-Mogg in Westminster
Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers has raised the shock Wilko store closures in Westminster, writing to the company chief executive to air his concerns. His constituency branch is one of 15 listed for closure in 2022, and he flagged it up as he aired his concerns about the high street. The houseware and garden retailer announced …
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York city centre expansion adds up for 360 Chartered Accountants
Hull-headquartered chartered accountancy practice 360 has opened a new office in York. The firm has developed a portfolio of clients in the city, with director Andy Steel firmly believing now is the perfect time to open a base. Mr Steele said: “We are really excited about opening our office right in the centre of York. …
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Welsh brewer Brains offloads 100 pubs for a Song in sector’s latest deal
SA Brain, one of Wales’s most prominent brewers, is to sell the freeholds to scores of its pubs to a consortium that includes a global private equity powerhouse – the latest in a string of significant deals in the sector.Sky News has learnt that Brains is close to agreeing a deal to offload approximately 100 …
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What is happening to the Ford engine plant at Bridgend?
One of the biggest industrial sites in Wales, the former Ford engine plant in Bridgend, will be formally brought to market in the first quarter of this year with interest already identified. Ford Motor Company (FMC) said its freehold interest in the 1.6 million sq ft factory site, where production ceased in September 2020, with …
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Protocol issues fade for Northern Ireland manufacturers as labour shortage bites
A full year after the UK left the European Union, Northern Ireland’s manufacturers appear to have navigated much of the early disruption caused by the Northern Ireland Protocol and are more focused on the challenges posed by a tight labour market. In a wide-ranging survey of its members, industry body Manufacturing NI said access to …
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Specialist care provider with more than 10,000 staff acquired by Wren House
A Staffordshire-based specialist care provider which boasts more than 10,000 staff has been sold a global infrastructure investment firm. Voyage Care, based in Lichfield, has been acquired by London-based Wren House in an undisclosed deal. Founded in 1988, Voyage – which had been owned by Partners Group and Duke Street since 2014 – provides specialist …

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