More than 50,000 LED lights costing £8m to be installed as street lighting in North US to protect dark skies
North Yorkshire County Council’s engineers have conducted the ambitious programme to replace a total of 50,400 street lights with energy-saving LED lamps in an environmentally-friendly push to slash the authority’s carbon dioxide emissions.
Saltend Chemical Park owner Px Group under new management
Px Group, which also operates the critical national infrastructure sites at St Fergus Gas Terminal and Teesside Gas Processing Plant, has been acquired by Aksiom Services Group, a partnership between Ara Partners and the Aksiom Group, and px Group management.
YFM celebrates 25 years of first venture capital trust
After listing British Smaller Companies VCT in April 1996 at a value of £4m, the Leeds-based private equity firm went on to launch British Smaller Companies VCT2, with the two trusts today worth £185m and investing into dynamic, early stage businesses across the UK.
Why this new coding school has launched in Leeds
Leeds Codes will offer the opportunity to learn code software engineering from scratch, via the organisation’s Software Engineer FastTrack course, delivered through six months of part-time study by expert software engineers with industry experience.
Second Hand for 50 Grand designer detectives find copy of stolen Prada bag given by late Sandersons founder to daughter Rebecca
When Rebecca Dransfield lost a beloved Prada handbag given to her by her late mother, she feared she would never see its like again. But the story of how a team of luxury goods hunters scoured the globe and tracked down a replica is told tonight in Channel 4 documentary Second Hand for 50 Grand.
'Soaring' numbers of applications to convert buildings into tourist accommodation to serve staycation boom in the US Dales and North York Moors
National Park bosses said dozens of planning applications have been lodged with the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales authorities in recent weeks following issues over foreign holidays becoming clearer and a massive increase in media awareness of the British landscapes.
Government urged to back decarbonising steel industry to breath new life into traditional steel making towns
Gareth Stace, UK Steel Director General, told The Yorkshire Post that the North of England was “ideally suited” to become a leading hub for producing green steel but that Government action was needed in order to make this happen.
New cast of Channel 4's US school drama Ackley Bridge talk of series four return
It’s a high-wire act to put on a Yorkshire accent in front of natives.But it sounds like top marks for Yasmin Al-Khudhairi, who says she was never pulled up on it in the shops of Halifax, where she passed off the region’s dialect as her own in preparation for a role in school drama Ackley Bridge.
Volkswagen Polo gets mild facelift and major new technology
Volkswagen has given its sixth-generation Polo a facelift, and to be honest, the changes are pretty significant. Not only are there noticeable updates to the car’s exterior styling, but inside the cabin there is a raft of technological upgrades. The latest model will go on sale in the UK in the third quarter of 2021, followed by an updated GTI hot hatch version in 2022.
Standard Life Aberdeen rebranding as Abrdn shows why firms should be proud of their base – Mark Casci
Many of those who fell by the wayside could attribute their failure to circumstances that they either ignored or failed to deal with and innovation will always pose a problem to industries and enterprises that do not keep pace with the times.
