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Nocturne Live 2021 – Simple Minds and Deacon Blue Rescheduled date announced
Simple Minds performance at Nocturne Live will now take place on Friday 18 June 2021, along with special guests, Deacon Blue.
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Government plan to transform Oxford-Cambridge Arc into UK’s fastest growing economic region
The spatial framework plan will help to create thousands of jobs, drive investment, protect and enhance the environment, and provide the infrastructure and beautiful new places needed to make the area.
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Tokamak Energy signs agreement with Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute
Tokamak Energy’s proprietary non-insulated high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology will be used in PSI’s accelerator and beam line applications.
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Oxford-led research centre to pioneer greener global financial system launches
The £10m government funded research centre will advise lenders, investors and insurers, enabling them to make better decisions to support a greener global economy.
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Developers exchange on sale of Kingsgrove care home site
St. Modwen and Crabhill Developments announced the sale of the 1.1 acre plot consented for a care home at Kingsgrove, Wantage to Care UK for £2.75m.
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Family board games to get stuck into whatever the weather
We bring you some of the best new family board games that you can get stuck into with your family and loved ones, whatever the weather.
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Harwell Campus expands to support strong life science sector
The campus is forging ahead with its 5m sq. ft masterplan to consolidate Harwell as one of the fastest-growing sites dedicated to science and technology in the UK.
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Plans submitted for two data centres on the Didcot power station site
The centres will be located at Didcot A – where the former combined coal and oil plant was situated before it was decommissioned and demolished.
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Oxfordshire-based Garden Trading Company acquired by Joules
The acquisition for £12.5m will help to increase the Joules customer base, broaden its product offering and strengthen its digital platform.
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Sensyne Health licenses MagnifEye technology to Excalibur Healthcare
Excalibur will integrate MagnifEye into its lateral flow products for global marketing to customers in both the public and private sectors.
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Oxfordshire entrepreneurs set to benefit from new Enterprise Centre
The new centre is a part-Government funded project delivered in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University to promote entrepreneurship and support start-up businesses in the county.
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Oxfordshire sees record take-up of industrial space in 2020
Take up hit 1.6 million sq ft (148,644 sq m) and can be attributed to a significant increase in demand, from online retailers who accounted for 70% of all market transactions.
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Oxbotica and BP complete autonomous vehicle trial at refinery
The trial was a world-first in the energy sector and the latest addition to the BP ventures technology portfolio.
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Oxford Brookes joins leaders to support 2040 net zero carbon emissions pledge
The university’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Alistair Fitt joined leaders from across Oxford to support the aspiration to achieve net zero carbon emissions as a city by 2040.
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Zero Carbon Oxford Summit: Leaders support 2040 net zero carbon emissions
The group of 21 leaders from the city’s universities, institutions and large businesses gave support to the aspiration of achieving net zero carbon emissions as a city by 2040.
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Sensyne Health has launched AI algorithm for real-time patient management
Co-developed with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, this is the first in a series of operational AI algorithms to be launched commercially and offered across the UK and US health systems.