12 IN VIEW
Views from Westminster
TRANSFORMATIONAL SCHEMES WILL POWER OUR GROWTH
by Antony Higginbotham Member of Parliament for Burnley
I know that everyone reading this will agree that Lancashire is by far the best county in the UK. World class businesses, entrepreneurial people, breath-taking landscapes, and a heritage and history that we are all immensely proud of.
The government demonstrated that it agrees with all of us when it announced the latest round of investment from the Levelling Up Fund.
That announcement means that, in Lancashire alone, government has invested more than £225m from the Levelling Up Fund (LUF), and that rises further still, to more than £360m, when Town Deals are added in. To put this into context, in January’s announcement of LUF funding, Lancashire counted for almost 10 per cent.
The schemes that this investment is supporting are transformational.
The Eden Project, renowned around the world, will now have a northern base in Morecambe
drawing in hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Blackpool will become home to a new Multiversity, with a carbon neutral campus placing the Talbot Gateway at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence and robotics learning.
Accrington will see its historic market hall revamped into a space seen normally in cities like London and Manchester. In Burnley, which I represent, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will move into Newtown Mill, offering world class, 21st century skills and learning, in a historic setting.
And across Lancashire, regeneration schemes will be taking shape to ensure this is and remains the best county to live, work, study and set-up a business.
All of this sits on top of the other investment and levelling up of opportunities we are seeing. Take just one area – education. As well as Blackpool’s Multiversity and Burnley’s growing UCLan campus, our county is also
becoming home to one of just 30 Institutes of Technology (IoT) across the country.
Specialising in STEM-based occupations, these IoTs will cover subjects such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace, cyber security, construction, healthcare, and digital. And here in Lancashire we are seeing it taking shape, with the county’s colleges, universities and leading employers coming together to research and develop the skills and technologies we need for the future.
Levelling up is about expanding opportunities and powering regional growth. In Lancashire we have made major contributions to UK prosperity, but we all also know that with the right tools, focus, investment and incentives, we can do so much more too.
The approaching Budget will take place against a very challenging backdrop, and in the run up to it I, along with other Lancashire colleagues, will be making our case again.
SPORTS NUTRITION TEAM’S WINNING GOAL
Top flight French football team OGC Nice has teamed up with Lancashire headquartered Science in Sport (SiS) as it strives to improve the performance of its players on the pitch.
The two-year partnership will see SiS and Professor James Morton, the company’s chief scientific officer, provide general education on nutrition for the club, currently seventh in Ligue 1.
The sports nutrition brand, which has its manufacturing and logistics hub in Blackburn, will also create individual plans and products for each player at the south of France club in the pursuit of “optimum performance and recovery”.
Prof Morton said: “Through the years we have demonstrated the significance that nutritional strategy has in unlocking an athlete’s performance potential and have worked with some of the best elite teams and athletes around the world.
“I speak for everyone at SiS when I say how much we are looking forward to our work with the team at OGC Nice, and I am excited to see how an exacting nutritional strategy translates to their results in both training and competition.”
Laurent Bessiere, director of performance at the club, said: “In order to compete against the best in the world, our players need to consistently perform at their very best, and it’s vital that they are able to recover fully for the next game in their schedule.
“This can be a great challenge, with back-to-back matches happening in busy periods, combined with long hours of travel.
“The support of Science in Sport is set to be an invaluable asset to us, enabling our players to enjoy an individually tailored nutrition approach, with insight into how to best implement this into their routine for the very greatest benefit.”
The move follows SiS agreeing a new distribution deal which will see its products sold across the USA.
In order to compete against the best in the world, our players need to consistently perform at their very best
The company has strengthened its ties with Colorado-based The Feed, an online marketplace supplying athletes with sport nutrition, high performance supplements and recovery tools.
Science in Sport develops, manufactures and markets science-led performance nutrition products for professional athletes, sports, and health and fitness enthusiasts.
The business also supplies the FA as well as Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the 2021 NBA champions, the Milwaukee Bucks.
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