Insider special report: Science and technology

Last year turned out to be an extremely busy year for deals involving Scottish science and technology companies. Investors ploughed funds into new and established players providing a major boost for the sector. But there were also sales which saw Scottish-owned firms absorbed into UK and international companies and groups. One of the biggest – if not the biggest – investment deal was the £33.7m pumped into Edinburgh-based anti-cancer medicine developer NuCana Biomed Ltd. The deal included a Read more [...]

The Yorkshire Post Loneliness campaign long-listed for prestigious reporting prize

THE YORKSHIRE Post’s Loneliness campaign has been nominated for a prestigious new reporting prize celebrating journalism which exposes the country’s social evils. Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic is the only regional newspaper campaign to be long-listed for the prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils at The Orwell Prize 2015.The awards, named after the writer George Orwell, are the country’s most prestigious political prize Read more [...]

World’s oldest rail tunnel is Grade Two listed

The Derbyshire Archeological Society have been awarded 20k or so to uncover the secrets of the Butterley Gangroad (possibly the world's oldest railway tunnel), which runs between Fritchley and Crich. John Midgley and Trevor A Derbyshire railway tunnel, which last year was confirmed as the oldest in the world, has been listed. Fritchley tunnel had been boarded-up for more than 30 years before being declared the world’s Read more [...]

World’s oldest rail tunnel is Grade Two listed

The Derbyshire Archeological Society have been awarded 20k or so to uncover the secrets of the Butterley Gangroad (possibly the world's oldest railway tunnel), which runs between Fritchley and Crich. John Midgley and Trevor A Derbyshire railway tunnel, which last year was confirmed as the oldest in the world, has been listed. Fritchley tunnel had been boarded-up for more than 30 years before being declared the world’s Read more [...]

WATCH: First look at Gwydir Castle’s great chamber following two-year restoration

The great chamber of one of Wales’ most important historical houses is to be opened to the public for the first time in its present state, following a painstaking two-year restoration. The Grade I listed Gwydir Castle’s great chamber will open on April 1, allowing people to see what would have been the Llanrwst building’s main entertaining room during the Tudor period. Owners Peter Welford and Judy Corbett have worked with Cadw to restore features including the chamber’s two-storey Elizabethan Read more [...]

LOOK: First look at Gwydir Castle’s great chamber following two-year restoration

VIEW GALLERY The great chamber of one of Wales’ most important historical houses is to be opened to the public for the first time in its present state, following a painstaking two-year restoration. The Grade I listed Gwydir Castle’s great chamber will open on April 1, allowing people to see what would have been the Llanrwst building’s main entertaining room during the Tudor period. Owners Peter Welford and Judy Corbett have worked with Cadw to restore features including the chamber’s Read more [...]

Houses for sale in Wales: Grade II listed family home has bags of style (and …

VIEW GALLERY This outstanding Grade II listed family home combines a substantial 18th century Georgian front section with a 16th century farmhouse portion to the rear. Kingscombe is set in mature grounds and has a delightful, southerly front aspect. The pillared portico entrance has a Georgian glazed fan light over and leads to an elegant flagstone floored hallway with a spindled staircase, high ceiling and doors to the drawing room. With its full length Georgian window and shutters to front, Read more [...]