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Latest News | A Liverpool City Reigon-led consortium is "ready to go" in its efforts to provide mobile intensive care units (ICU) at short notice in a bid to help the NHS cope with additional demand resulting from the Covid-19 outbreak. Read More… |
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Business leaders connected virtually at an Insider roundtable to discuss business resilience and evolving a company to become more environmentally aware. Read More… |
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The proposed £6.2bn merger between Just Eat and Takeaway.com has been cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Read More… |
British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, has committed £10m to Startup Funding Club (SFC) to support early stage businesses. Read More… |
Student accommodation marketplace Housemates has secured £100,000 of pre-seed funding from GC Angels to support its plans to expand its platform across the UK and internationally. Read More… |
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Andy Gregory, head of investments at BGF, looks at the impact of Covid-19 on businesses so far and what lies in store over the coming months. Read More… |
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A Runcorn-based company whose specialist visors are typically used in military and industrial settings, as well as mine clearance, bomb disposal and riot protection, has been called upon in the fight against Covid-19. Read More… |
The North West Energy & Hydrogen Cluster has secured a funding boost designed to help map out the region's journey to becoming the UK's first net zero carbon industrial area by 2040. The hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project, HyNet, has also been backed. Read More… |
The banking and finance sector has provided more than £2.8bn of lending to SMEs so far through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). However, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said that more work is needed to meet the demand from UK businesses. Read More… |
Coding school Northcoders is launching a new service designed to offer businesses across the North and beyond the opportunity to access its team of software developers. Read More… |
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A prominent mixed-use scheme in Liverpool city centre, which is home to a pair of popular restaurants and a boutique aparthotel, has been bought in a multimillion-pound deal. Read More… |
Hammerson has warned that it is willing to terminate a £400m deal to sell nine retail parks after the buyer revealed it does not intend to complete the transaction on the agreed date. Read More… |
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey will start a phased return to construction from the beginning of May. Read More… |
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