South West

What's On - CIHT South Western Annual Conference 2015

The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation South Western Annual Conference 2015:

Date: Thursday 12 February 2015

Venue: Rougemont/Thistle Hotel, Exeter

Time: 10 am – 4.30 pm (Coffee and registration from 9 am)

Theme: ‘Resilience: Infrastructure, Networks & Services’

Cost: £100 +VAT per delegate (discounts available for group bookings...

SW businesses encouraged to bid for a share of the funding

The Technology Strategy Board -the UK’s Innovation Agency- has today published its blueprint for growth, which outlines investments of over £400 million in British Innovation.

Businesses from across the South West are being encouraged to look at the range of specialist business support available and bid for a share of the funding on offer.

144 organisations in the South West...

South West sees fall in house prices

House prices in the South West fell slightly in the month to September 2013; a surprise drop that mirrors the UK trend.

The house price index level dropped very slightly from 171.7 in August to 171.3 last month, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which also show a slower rate of price increase for the South West in the 12 months to September 2013...

High-tech centre opens its doors to South West companies

Businesses in the South West are being invited to tour a Plymouth University research facility and see for themselves how it could benefit their manufacturing processes and enhance profitability.

An open day on composite failure analysis is being held at the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre (PEMC) on Thursday 27 June.

Businesses will be able to see how the...

Urgent report on economic effects of storms on Devon

An urgent report into the economic effects of last year’s severe storms on Devon’s transport network has been ordered by county council leader John Hart.

Mr Hart called for the report to provide hard evidence so Devon County Council can launch a concerted campaign for urgent Government action to repair the battered rail and road network.

“I want to know the economic...

2013 to be in top ten warmest since records began

Taking into account the range of uncertainty in the forecast and observations, the Met Office are predicting that it is very likely that 2013 will be one of the top ten warmest years on record, which goes back to 1850, and it is predicted to be warmer than 2012.

The forecast follows provisional figures for the observed temperature in 2012, published by the Met Office and University of...

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