Imagine street lighting with 360-degree video cameras, facial recognition and real-time notification to security and police dispatchers – all built discreetly into one streamlined, architecturally designed light post. Now add an LED ...
Barkers Home officially unveiled its revamped £3m furnishing store in Northallerton on Saturday. Directors Charles, Ian and Guy Barker cut the ribbon to mark the official opening of the family-owned store on Yafforth Road, which has ...
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HTC has just announced its UK rollout plans for the HTC Vive VR system, revealing when and where you'll be able to go hand-on with the device. The Taiwanese manufacturer has teamed up with Dixons Carphone plc, which means that the Vive ...
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John Lewis has continued to outperform the market in uncertain trading conditions, with gross sales up 2.8% to £4.56bn (4.4% on a 52 week basis). To ensure that customers can shop whenever and however they want, John Lewis has ...
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Simpson Packaging has completed a deal with Gregory Property Group to purchase a new 32,300 sq. ft industrial unit at Ossett 40, near Wakefield. The family owned, local business is to relocate from premises at Shaw Cross near Dewsbury to ...
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Award-winning bed and mattress manufacturer Harrison Spinks has expanded its Leeds-based facilities with the £1.5m purchase of a former Leeds City College site. The company, which is behind the Harrison, Somnus and Spink & Edgar ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a four-day state visit to Britain from Oct 20 to 23, during which the two countries signed cooperation agreements worth a combined 40 billion pounds, including Chinese investment in a British nuclear power ...
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Chinese influence in Britain is notable from the late 17th century onwards as wealthy Britons and a growing middle class provided a demand for Chinese goods such as porcelain and commodities such as tea. Chinese culture travelled to ...
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President Xi Jinping and Britain's Prince Andrew unveil a plaque as they attend the opening of the UCL Institute of Education Confucius Institute annual conference in London on Thursday. Alastair Grant / Associated Press Classrooms make ...
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Exhibiting in Stand 250 at European Microwave Week (EuMW 2015) in Paris, France (6-11 September), Diamond Microwave Devices Ltd of Leeds, UK (which specializes in high-performance microwave power amplifiers) has announced a ten-fold ...
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UK-based brewery Northern Monk Brew is offering its core beverage - beer in a can form. The cans are available through their online store and offered at local beer stores. It claims to have become one of the first breweries in the UK ...
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Online design brand Made.com has today announced plans for the opening of its brand new North West showroom. The new 4000 sq ft showroom space based at Liverpool’s Metquarter, will open on mid-September. Made.com’s ...
Carlsberg Group is reportedly planning to divest the former Tetley Brewery site in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, for £35m. "We hope to be able to announce the successful purchaser prior to the end of 2015." The company, till date, ...
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Diamond Microwave Devices Ltd of Leeds, UK (which was spun out in 2006 from the diamond electronics team of Element Six and specializes in high-performance microwave power amplifiers) has re-designed its range of gallium nitride (GaN)-based ...
A new research in England says that while the UK’s leading clothing retailer Marks and Spencer has encouraged more sustainable consumption of clothes, such successes are unlikely to be replicated on a larger scale without more ...