Vion has confirmed that a management buyout could save 70 jobs at its Welsh Country Foods lamb-processing site. A management buy-out could save jobs at Welsh Country Foods, said Vion Almost 350 workers are employed at the facility on ...
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The Greater London Authority (GLA) has issued prior notice of its plan to select a supplier or suppliers to help with its Super Connected Cities Plan (SCCP) initiative. The government's broadband delivery team, BDUK, awarded GLA an ...
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Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
The idea that broadband projects face a struggle to find finance is a myth, according to the director general of non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. "Because of the financial crisis, people say there is no money ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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Unite the union has urged Asda to reinstate its contract with Welsh Country Foods (WCF). The plea comes after WCF’s owner Vion UK warned that losing the contract could force the closure of the Anglesey site with the loss of up to 350 ...
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The Welsh government has invested 39m into faster broadband services for schools, the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones has announced. The investment comes from a new "Learning In Digital Wales Grant" that aims to help students to ...
Nearly 350 jobs are under threat at Vion's Welsh Country Foods' lamb processing facility on the Island of Anglesey, after the manufacturer warned today (January 11) that it could be forced to close the business. The firm has launched a ...
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Dr Gareth Jones,Gary Gould and Dr David Hardman of the Birmingham Science Park LUX-TSI,the accredited laboratory services company,has secured£430,000 of investment to expand facilities at its Birmingham operations and at its ...
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A new pound 2 million scheme is beginning to upgrade the Conwy Tunnel on the A55 in north Wales and it is expected to take four weeks to complete. There will be a new lighting system put in place in the westbound tunnel using LED outdoor ...
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Dr Gareth Jones,Gary Gould and Dr David Hardman of the Birmingham Science Park LUX-TSI,the accredited laboratory services company,has secured£430,000 of investment to expand facilities at its Birmingham operations and at its ...
Tags: investment, LUX-TSI, LED, lighting
The Open University (OU) has launched a new company to increase UK students' access to some of the country's top universities. Futurelearn, an independent company but majority owned by the OU, will offer free, online courses from UK ...
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Innovation, consensus and anarchy in Welsh IT Wales as a networked nation Welsh datacentre rationalisation programme Aligning technology to the needs of Wales Balancing Wales's IT books In many respects Wales has a far better track record ...
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The Welsh government has signed a pound 70m five-year extension to its IT services contract with Atos. Atos currently manages the entire core IT infrastructure for government in Wales, which includes more than 600 servers and 7,000 ...
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The Food Standards Agency in Wales is reminding consumers how they can avoid food contamination resulting from the re-use of plastic bags. According to the information published by the Welsh Government, there has been a 96% reduction in ...
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