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University of Nottingham spin-outs support region’s reputation for scientific breakthroughs
A NEW report shows that technologies developed from research carried out at the University of Nottingham have attracted millions of pounds’ worth of investment over the past 12 months, supporting the region’s economic prosperity and reputation for scientific breakthroughs.
The University has 25 spin-out companies who are developing technologies which began life as research projects and are now being turned into products which can transform people’s lives.
They include Cerca Magnetics, whose next-generation brain scanner builds on a long track record in medical imaging research which stretches back to Sir Peter Mansfield’s Nobel Prize-winning contribution to the MRI scanner.
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New Book: This is the BBC Holmes Service
John Holmes appears to be throwing down a challenge in his recently published autobiography, ‘This Is the BBC Holmes Service’.
“No one could possibly have enjoyed a more varied career in the BBC than me,” he boasts.
Just his production work at BBC Radio 4 shows considerable depth, having worked on such cornerstones of the output as, Any Questions?, Any Answers?, The Natural History Programme and Down Your Way.
Highlights here include visiting 10, Downing Street with Nigel Hawthorne to interview Margaret Thatcher and visiting the birthplace of The Goons, Bexhill, with Spike Milligan.