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Over 100 students and recent graduates from Nottingham Trent University (NTU) worked with a range of local employers to solve business challenges as part of an event bringing the two together.

Lapwing Energy Ltd, the renewable energy division of The Lapwing Estate - a 5th generation food and farming business, has announced the start of a world first demonstrator of its “Reverse Coal” concept supported by the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy through the phase 2 of the Direct Air Capture and other Greenhouse Gas Removal program.

In April this year, the government announced the UK Shared Prosperity Fund as the domestic replacement for the European Structural and Investment Programme in the UK. The investment plan submissions window for the UKSPF is now open and closes on 1 August 2022.

The Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP)’s Business Gateway Growth Hub supported more than 1,500 small businesses - with a combined turnover topping £2billion - during just 12 months.

A partnership of five local authorities across the Midlands region, alongside Sub-National Transport Body Midlands Connect have submitted a bid for almost £1million in funding, as part of Government’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Pilot. 

A combined £18million investment by three separate foreign-owned companies in Herefordshire will create more than 80 new jobs across the county – thanks to support from the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership.