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...The 62-year-old is taking up the role at C-Capture, which has been spun out of the University of Leeds and is backed by companies including UK power generation business Drax and oil major BP....
...Leeds Building Society is incorporating savings on energy bills into affordability assessments, boosting how much would-be buyers can borrow....
...Former Rolls-Royce chief executive Warren East will be chair of carbon capture developer C-Capture, which has been spun out of the University of Leeds and is backed by companies including UK power generation...
...Specialist skills, such as that taught at the welding academy set up for the nuclear construction at Hinkley Point C, dwindle when there isn’t more work to move on to....
...A change of pianist introduced Kazakhstan pianist Alim Beisembayev, winner of the Leeds Piano Competition in 2021, to play Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2....
...“I think people will come away with an increased awareness of the richness of British folk customs and the diversity of it,” says Costin, who included costumes from Notting Hill Carnival, the Leeds Carnival...
...Why The development is built to the LEED Gold environmental standard, with geothermal heating, and includes access to two pools and guest suites....
...Rolls-Royce is leading a consortium that has designed a 470-megawatt small modular nuclear reactor, which could produce enough power for a city the size of Leeds and would be built in factories before being...
...At the time, mainstream fashion retail was dominated by Marks and Spencer, C&A, British Home Stores and a host of small chains and independents; Next and Primark were in their infancy while names such as...
...Hinkley Point C, the UK’s one current nuclear power project, was initiated more than a decade ago and won’t be commissioned for at least another five years....
...“The people who are going to feel this immediately are on the variable deals — particularly those on standard variable rates,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages....
...I called my daughter, who is now head of behaviour at a big school in London and who used to teach in Leeds. Yup, she said. The students were very likely to laugh at my accent....
...Accenture plans to create 3,000 technology jobs over three years, with half of the roles based outside London in cities such as Newcastle and Leeds....
...In some ways, their boss was coaching them to say, “What are the things that you must get A’s in and what are the things you can get B’s and C’s in?”...
...Skipton Building Society said it would remove all of its three-year fixed rates on Friday and Leeds Building Society announced a rise in rates on mortgages at loan-to-value ratios of 80 and 85 per cent....
...She went to university in Leeds and then moved back home. “I’m a real home bird, but it took me leaving to realise that,” she explains....
...Stephen Griffin, who leads the antiviral group at the Leeds School of Medicine, said it had been “frustrating” to see how little investment there had been in this area....
...Professor Clive Beggs, an infectious disease expert at Leeds Beckett University, agrees....
...I’ve seen my pay drop c. £20k and will no doubt pay a load more tax in the coming years to pay this off. I don’t want to get back to normal, but I want some freedom to live as well....
...It is impossible to be precise but we think that in general when companies refer to “materially ahead” they are referring to c.10%....
...We think the threat of insurtech disruption to life and retail P&C insurers may be greater than for commercial P&C (re)insurers given the more complex nature of commercial risks, fewer threats from non-insurance...
...The first victim to speak on Tuesday was Derek Martindale, a severe haemophiliac, who received an HIV diagnosis at a hospital in Leeds in 1985 after receiving Factor VIII....
...Their journey together was remarkable, collaborating with the likes of close friend Chris Ofili as well as Terence Conran....
...While many festivals are still very blokey affairs — Reading and Leeds this year managed a reported 12 per cent of female artists — End of the Road is well on the way to parity....
...Love Terence”. GSK: Hampton tick Philip Hampton was once described by this column as pragmatically merciless, writes Kate Burgess. Certainly he knows when to seize his moment....
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