Next week’s Budget is likely to be the final set piece fiscal event before the next General Election. The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand at the Despatch Box after weeks of speculation that he will use what headroom he has to fund tax cuts. At November’s Autumn Statement, Hunt’s big headline was a cut to …
For youngsters growing up in the cramped and often squalid conditions of a Palestinian refugee camp, it was the experience of a lifetime. It was also a lifetime which in all probability will be spent in the crowded Shatila camp in Beirut. Groups of youngsters were given a window on a new world when they …
Athletes will be able to monitor their brain brainwaves to pinpoint peak performance and injury after an innovative sports headband, originally designed to reduce concussion, is adapted. Stanley-based Rezon Halos has linked up with the American tech firm Cogwear to produce sportswear that will use EEG (electroencephalogram) technology to analyse brainwaves. Clinical trials are about …
Victoria Conner laughs as she recalls her father’s impassioned advice when she was contemplating going into business. “You need to get yourself into coffins – there’s money in coffins,” he would tell her. But Victoria was not keen, replying. “Dad, I wouldn’t trust myself. What if someone fell out the bottom?” Instead, Victoria runs a …
Devolution has proved a revolutionary, if controversial, development that has defined the current period of Conservative Party rule in the North. Under the steam of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the Tories have lent into devolution, both as a lever to ‘levelling up’ and as a potential solution to the ‘problem’ of the North and …
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