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Applications for Spring cohorts of the Empowering Women to Lead, Cyber Security programme now open! An innovative cross-sector initiative, designed to tackle the long standing lack of gender diversity…
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An insurance company is launching a technology and data hub in Manchester city centre. Canopius Group (Canopius), a global specialty (re)insurer, is set to open the Canopius Tech & Data Hub at WeWork…
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His Excellency Vikram Doraiswami, the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, has recently visited Stockport constituency in the first ever visit of an Indian High Commissioner to Stockport…
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Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and other Civic and business leaders from across the city-region welcomed the UK India High Commissioner His Excellency Mr V Doraiswami Organised by…
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A new multi-million-pound technical education institute in Greater Manchester will open to students in September 2023, after being granted a licence by the Department for Education. The Greater…
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A historic logistics firm has taken space at a ten-storey Manchester city centre office building, with the company relocating 50 employees from its current base. Good Logistics, a Denholm Group…
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The city council has entered a legal agreement with developer Allied London for the transformation of the grade two-listed Campfield Market buildings into a tech, media, and creative hub. Under the…
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A rare variant of a protein present in nearly all human cells may hold the key to improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, according to University of Manchester research funded by…
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The local authority reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 7,161 tonnes in the 2021-2022 financial year. Manchester City Council’s operational estate is made up of 316 buildings, including offices…
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Greater Manchester has set out ambitions for a number of key rail routes in the city-region, including in Stockport, to be integrated with the city-region’s Bee Network vision for a London-style…
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