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▲ Food chain Nando’s is looking to roll out technology developed by Barrowford-based DEXT Heat Recovery across its 400-site network following a successful trial. The heat exchange system harvests the wasted heat in a restaurant’s extract stream and diverts it back into the heating and hot water system to be used again.
▲ The government’s Youth Investment Fund, part of the government’s National Youth Guarantee, is sending £15m to Lancashire-based projects. The funding, from the £300m pot, includes £4.6m to be shared between Darwen Youth Centre and Audley and Queens Park Youth Hub, £3m for Blackburn Youth Zone and £2.3m for The Foxton Centre in
Preston.There is also £1.7m for Blackpool Boys and Girls Club, £1m for Fleetwood Trust, £973,000 for Burnley Boys and Girls Club, £620,000 for Newground Together in Blackburn and £488,000 for The Boathouse Youth in Blackpool. Meanwhile, national charity OnSide has received planning permission to open a new youth zone in Preston.
▲ The Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems an £870m contract to deliver a new radar for the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon fighter jet fleet. The news followed the publication of BAE Systems’ half-year results, which saw double-digit growth in sales and operating profit, up to £12bn and £1.2bn respectively, to the end of June. The engineering giant also made a £100,000 donation to enable the launch of an Eco-Lab at the Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone.
▲ Lancashire County Council and the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) have launched the Lancashire Funding Hub, which has been designed to provide a single-entry point for businesses to better understand their options for external finance.
▲ Blackburn College’s 135-year-old Victoria Building is set to undergo a multi-million- pound restoration which will convert the Grade II-listed, four-storey facility into a community and learning hub that sits at the heart of Blackburn’s Town Centre Master Plan.
▲ The UK government and US-headquartered Kindeva Drug Delivery have teamed up to invest £33m to keep the production of green, low-carbon, respiratory inhalers in the UK. The investment will create 40 full-time jobs and safeguard 218 existing full-time jobs across Kindeva’s two UK sites. It will also fund green improvements to Kindeva’s underlying inhaler componentry supply chain in Clitheroe.
▲ A line-up of international music acts attracted record attendances during this year’s five-day Lytham Festival, with a total of 100,000 visiting the event. Peter Taylor, festival co-founder, said: “We increased our capacity to 22,500 for both Sting and Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe, making both nights our biggest ever and we are delighted with how successful they were.”
▲ The Tawd paper mill in Skelmersdale has secured £2.2m government funding to help it become the first production facility of its kind in the country to adopt hydrogen power. The mill is owned and operated by Swedish firm Essity and the funding, from the Industrial Fuel Switching Competition, will help it to trial hydrogen as an alternative to natural gas in its manufacturing process.
▲ Ram Gupta, managing director of Nybble IT, has been recognised at the Palace of Westminster with a prestigious British Citizen Award. The Blackburn-based entrepreneur was one of just 26 individuals to earn the award, which recognises exceptional people who positively impact their communities.
▲ Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) has been awarded a £1.8m grant to accelerate the take up of digital technology amongst UK law and accountancy firms. The Technology in Professional Services project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, will build on the university’s earlier research into the barriers preventing firms from adopting digital technology and artificial intelligence.
▲ Entrepreneurs Unlocked has secured National Lottery funding which will allow it to bring its programme to two prisons in Lancashire. The social enterprise works with people in prison and on probation, providing resources such as skills exploration sessions, self-employment short courses, smart subcontracting programmes for people wanting to learn about getting into construction, and offender- to-entrepreneur programmes.
▲ VEKA, the manufacturer of uPVC profiles, is to create 70 jobs at its Burnley site in anticipation of significant growth. With the acquisition of major new customers, the company is predicting a 25 per cent increase in annual turnover.
▲ Ribchester-based Green Shield Group has completed a number of new green installations, including solar systems at AMRC North West in Samlesbury and across three buildings at the Soper BMW showroom site in Lincoln, as well as solar, underfloor heating and air source heat pumps at a 92-property housing development in Chelmsford.
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