The Council has awarded a £5.7 million contract to Robertson Northern for a major project that will bring The Highland Council’s administrative and professional staff from different locations across Fort William into the one building, providing a year-on-year revenue saving of around £400,000. Work will start at the end of April 2016 on the redevelopment […]
Winners of government competition will develop ideas to cut vehicle emissions and help plug-in cars drive further. Formula 1 (F1) technology could soon make family cars lighter, improve fuel efficiency and help plug-in vehicles go further – after an innovative research project won a share of a £38.2 million government prize. The project is one […]
With construction due to start next year, HS2 took another significant step forward with the confirmation that HS2 Ltd will appoint a team made up of CH2M, Atkins and SENER as Phase One Engineering Delivery Partner. The CH2M/Atkins/SENER team will be fully integrated within HS2 Ltd in order to drive long term efficiencies across the […]
The UK Space Agency is expanding support for business incubation centres across the UK, providing funding that will enable a network of incubators to support start-up companies across the breadth of the space sector. The incubation funding will grow space in the regions by providing a supportive business environment to assist entrepreneurs to develop small […]
Two weeks before the new UK National Living Wage comes into force, Scotland Office Minister Andrew Dunlop has urged Scotland’s top business influencers to help spread the word among the Scottish business community. Hundreds of thousands of Scottish workers are set to benefit from the increase on 1 April, which will see the current minimum […]
Three sports facilities in North Wales will be upgraded following a successful application for the £5m Welsh Government Sport Facilities Capital Loan Scheme. Eirias Parc in Conwy, the Waterworld Leisure Activity Centre and the Chirk Leisure Activity Centre, Wrexham will benefit from almost £2million interest free loan to update and modernise their facilities – including […]
Seventeen projects in urban, rural and island communities are receiving a share of a £300,000 fund aimed at giving people a say on how their area can be improved. Increased funding for the Charrette Mainstreaming Programme will go to eight community-led and nine local authority schemes in areas including Tiree, Erskine, Peterhead and Arbroath. Charrettes […]
The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Matt Hancock, has confirmed on 18 March that the UK’s new national cyber centre, announced by the Chancellor in November, will be called the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The NCSC will be based in London and will open in October. Ciaran Martin, currently Director General Cyber […]
An extra £25.6m is being provided to help maintain and repair roads in North Yorkshire and stop potholes developing, taking local roads investment in the region to more than £150m up to 2021. The funding will ensure rural roads can benefit from resurfacing work over the next 5 years thanks to funding which is being […]
On 18 March, the Minister for Economy, Science and Transport, Edwina Hart will visit Pendine Resort, Carmarthenshire, to announce a new EU funding package for tourism in Wales with a potential total value £85m – the single biggest EU investment made in the sector. Tourism Attractor Destinations, backed with £27.7m from the European Regional Development […]
