Leading Derby IT education provider starts Cosy new partnership
A leading Derby education IT company has started up a “Cosy” new partnership with a multi-million-pound sustainable playground furniture and equipment business. Derby-based L.E.A.D. IT services, which provides tech support to nearly 250 schools and trusts across the UK, is expanding its remit to work with businesses and has signed up Cosy Direct. Cosy Direct, […]
Barron McCann’s brand new Innovation Hub demonstrates the technology of tomorrow
A LEADING tech business has created a state-of-the-art innovation hub showcasing the most advanced technologies transforming the retail, stadium and hospitality sectors. Barron McCann, which lists Pets at Home, Papa Johns and Iceland among its clients, has created the cutting-edge facility in its Derby headquarters where customers and partners can experience first-hand the technologies shaping […]
Bemrose students get a front-row seat to engineering and sustainability at the Houses of Parliament
STUDENTS from The Bemrose School were invited to the House of Lords to listen to industry experts discuss the latest developments in engineering and sustainability. The year 10 pupils, who all study triple science with a keen interest in engineering, heard a debate on how the UK is working towards reducing our carbon emissions and how […]
Once homeless Theresa says without Derventio Housing Trust’s life-saving Healthy Futures scheme she would likely be “dead or locked up”
Once-homeless Derbyshire residents who have fled situations including sleeping rough, dire accommodation and leaving abusive relationships have thanked a valuable project which has saved the NHS tens of thousands of pounds over the years. Theresa Kestle, Kelsey Hudspeth and Violet Osborn have all joined together in thanking Derventio Housing Trust for running the ‘Healthy Futures’ […]
Lubrizol helps teenage fundraising scouts equip remote Derbyshire hut with life-saving defibrillator
Derbyshire science company Lubrizol has lent its support to a local scout group who have raised around £1700 to equip their remote hut with a life-saving defibrillator. Lubrizol helped 1st Sitwell Scout Group with a donation towards a defibrillator for their hut, along with Smalley Community Group and the Locko Fund for Children and Young […]
Brookfields Nursing Home in Derby welcomes youngest team member – aged seven!
Derby’s oldest nursing home has welcomed a new member of the team to help put smiles on the faces of its elderly residents – and she’s only seven! Skye Fearnehough is the youngest member of the team at Brookfields Private Nursing Home on Burton Road, where she visits around twice a month to chat to […]
Repton Prep School pupil wins prestigious national competition with graphic reimagining of classic novel
A TALENTED twelve-year-old has recreated her favourite book from a female perspective and won a national competition with her imaginative graphic novel. Harriet Maxfield Sloane, who attends Repton Prep School, reinterpreted Lord of the Flies with striking digital illustrations to win first prize in the contest organised by publishers Faber and the National Literacy Trust. […]
CEO Paul Capell appointed board chair of Promethean Particles
Nottingham-based Promethean Particles, a world-leader in the manufacture of industrial-scale, cost-effective metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Capell as its new board chair. Paul, an accomplished CEO, non-executive director and strategic advisor, brings with him vast experience of launching and scaling up businesses across a range of industries, including oil […]
MTMS extends its partnership with GTR to keep the UK’s busiest railway moving
By Simon Burch UK rail depot maintenance firm MTMS has been tasked with helping keep the UK’s busiest railway moving after it signed a new three-year contract with train operators Govia Thameslink Railway. The Midlands-based firm has maintained the equipment at depots serving GTR’s network for a number of years and the new contract has […]
Allestree Woodlands School gives girls a boost in science
A Derby secondary school says sciences are now just as popular for girls as boys thanks to successful efforts to attract more females into STEM (sciences technology engineering and maths) subjects. In fact, the sciences are proving popular across the board, with more than 30 students in A-Level classes for subjects such as chemistry and […]