Seven start-ups using location, land and property data in their products and services have been accepted onto the Geovation Accelerator Programme.
Link: Press release: Meet the start-ups set to receive support from Geovation
Source: Gov Press Releases
Following a pollution incident in summer 2015, a Stoke-on-Trent company has donated £150k to help restore a river.
Link: Press release: Company to pay £150k to charity following pollution incident
Source: Gov Press Releases
Work to de-activate a contraflow installed on the M20 in Kent as part of new resilience measures for people travelling in the county has been completed.
Link: Press release: Operation Brock – work to remove M20 contraflow complete
Source: Gov Press Releases
Welsh bioresearch company, Agroceutical Products, grows and harvests daffodils in the Black Mountains to help Alzheimer’s patients.
Link: Press release: Welsh-grown daffodils help tackle Alzheimer’s
Source: Gov Press Releases
Biggest change to the private rental sector for a generation.
Link: Press release: Government announces end to unfair evictions
Source: Gov Press Releases
Ms Alison Blake CMG has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Link: Press release: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Afghanistan – May 2019
Source: Gov Press Releases
Patients will be safely spun in a ‘human centrifuge’ by researchers who hope to help maintain the size, quality and strength of muscles.
Link: Press release: Spinning experiment may help long stay hospital patients
Source: Gov Press Releases
Mark Field remembers the many Kurdish people in Iraq killed during Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign.
Link: Press release: Foreign Office statement on Anfal Memorial Day
Source: Gov Press Releases
Homes England continues to strengthen its senior leadership team with the appointment of Lou Downe as Director of Service Design and Transformation.
Link: Press release: Homes England appoints Service Design & Transformation Director
Source: Gov Press Releases
Arts Minister Michael Ellis announces temporary export bar so that a buyer can be found for 16th century casket worth £750,000.
Link: Press release: Export Bar placed on Renaissance casket in a bid to keep it in UK
Source: Gov Press Releases
