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A huge snow storm is set to cause widespread disruption across the UK this weekend as an Atlantic weather system moves in from the west.
More than 30 locations across the UK have put bids in to host the £3 billion Green Investment Bank (GIB) – a third more than the Government was anticipating.
A North East manufacturer of automotive parts has received £1.65 million of Government funding that will help it supply electric vehicle (EV) battery components to the Nissan LEAF.
The Met Office has this afternoon stepped up the number of severe weather warnings for later this week as a huge snow storm and hurricane-strength winds threaten to cause severe disruption.
Forecasters at the Met Office have today increased the warning of heavy snowfall from a yellow alert to an amber warning across parts of the UK.
Rio Tinto has become the latest multinational to blame a factory closure on new carbon taxes, after it announced that it was shutting an aluminium smelter near Newcastle upon Tyne with the loss of 515 jobs.
Britain's unseasonably sunny and warm weather is about to come to a wet and abrupt end after the Met Office issued a series of severe weather warnings.
Low carbon businesses in Britain’s coastal communities are set to benefit from a new multi-million pound Treasury fund.
A state-of-the-art indoor test facility for offshore wind turbines has just been awarded £25 million of funding.
Britain’s first train manufacturing plant to be built in decades will assemble high-speed trains that will better the sustainability and eco-friendliness of rolling stock in the UK, the company behind the facility said today.
The UK’s first sorting and recycling facility for mixed plastics will begin processing this April.
Vertical axis wind turbines could provide an alternative method of green energy production from conventional horizontal offshore wind turbines, a study has found.
The city of Newcastle has embarked on a £900,000 project that aims to tap into renewable energy trapped underground.
A company is looking to establish the UK’s first manufacturing plant to produce industrial chemicals from domestic and commercial waste.
Europe’s biggest plastic sorting and recycling facility, which has just opened in North Lincolnshire, aims to process half of the UK’s plastic bottles by the middle of next year and address the growing demand from industry for low carbon packaging.