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MARCH 28, 2024

The second #DrivingChange conference at the National Space Centre in Leicester on 21 March took health and safety, automotive and fleet professionals through how we can address the most challenging and common causes of collisions.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A number of the many projects featured in this initiative will be carried out by UK institutions, Wellcome has revealed. Researchers at the University of Leicester will develop an online app which draws upon health and environmental data to make predictions of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in policy-relevant ways.

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MARCH 23, 2023

Meanwhile, earlier this week I joined Richard Holden MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Roads and Local Transport, and Janette Bell, Managing Director of First Bus in Leicester. The post Trucks, vans, technology and services – time to shine at the CV Show appeared first on SMMT.

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E&T

APRIL 11, 2023

billion-kilometre journey has been supported by British scientists, as well as the UK Space Agency, which has provided £9m of funding for the £1.4bn project. Juice will lift off onboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 1.15pm UK time, before separating from the rocket after about half an hour.

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SMMT

DECEMBER 1, 2022

HVO fuelling stations are also currently being built across Wren’s network of eight UK transport depots in Stansted, Bristol, Lanark, Howden, Barton-upon-Humber, Dudley, Rochester and Manchester. About 40% of the company’s UK fleet now operates on HVO fuel, with a further 10% using Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

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SMMT

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This year international development organisation Transaid is celebrating a quarter of a century since it was formed by Save the Children, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) and its Patron, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.

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i4.0 today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Leicester-based DForce Engineering Ltd has a portfolio of blue-chip clients in the automotive, nuclear and aerospace industries. For their latest project, DForce sought the robotics expertise of FANUC UK. This project is a classic example of how utilisation of the correct tools can deliver real-world benefits to UK manufacturers.”.

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E&T

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ACS organised STEAM 2022, a free-of-charge STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) event for 10,000 schoolchildren at Thorpe Park in Surrey, UK, last October. The way the education system is set up in the UK, and other places, with high-stakes exams at 15/16, means that we narrow the focus of what we’re learning fairly early.

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Foley

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A third-party activist organization sent a petition to the CBP detailing problems with the company’s Leicester factory. One CBP-run tool that makes the agency’s efforts especially potent is the e-Allegations Portal, which allows anyone to submit allegations of trade violations. 11, 2022), available at [link].

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E&T

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Inevitably, the UK’s tallest sculpture was criticised as a vanity project, while its merit as a public art installation was questioned. Kapoor the artist started off as Kapoor the engineer, but due to his inability to master mathematics he came to the UK from India to attend the Chelsea School of Art and Design.

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E&T

JULY 10, 2023

Both the EU and UK have research programmes. Researchers at De Montfort University in Leicester developed a way to produce limb sockets from recycled plastic at a unit cost of £10, against a previous benchmark of £5,000. China has made BCIs priorities under plans such as Made in China 2025 and its AI strategy.

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SMMT

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new electric bus service taking passengers on an orbital route connecting key sites around Leicester has been launched. The 30-mile Orbital service – the UK’s longest electric circular bus route – will operate from Leicester General Hospital, connecting estates and suburbs on the city’s outer ring road and beyond.

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JUNE 9, 2023

A fossil stored at the NHM casts new light on the origins of the modern lizard Image credit: Natural History Museum UK The fossil, found in a quarry, shifts back the ancestry of lizards by 35 million years Image credit: Natural History Museum UK “I discovered a subtle difference in its chemistry,” Rumsey explains.

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The Guardian Manufacturing

JUNE 4, 2023

City’s industry alleges firms forcing through discounts and imposing financial penalties over small errors Leicester’s garment makers have said they are in crisis as a growing number of fast-fashion brands are forcing through discounts, making last-minute cancellations and imposing financial penalties for what suppliers claim are tiny errors.

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E&T

JULY 10, 2023

Visit any police website across the UK and you will be met with rows of faces – each one belonging to the victim of a crime that has yet to be solved. per cent of crimes in the UK secured a conviction. The situation in the UK is less murky. As of March 2022, the last full year for which we have statistics, only 5.6

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