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The Growth Business of the Year award will recognise businesses that have expanded market share as well as growth in customers and/or employees

John Packman (l) and Rob Leigh of the Broads Authority receive their award - Credit: Broads Authority The Broads Authority won the Knowledge Pioneer award, sponsored by University of East Anglia. "The Broads is an extraordinary place and because it has so many facets, you have to respond in an innovative way just to look after them,” explains chief executive John Packman. "Constantly finding new ways of doing that is a challenge."   University of East Anglia sponsors Knowledge Pioneer -...

The WATR monitor has raised nearly £250,000 in its first four days - Credit: WATR A water quality monitor has raised 97pc of a £250,000 target in a public crowdfunding scheme within four days of launching.  WATR is a solar-powered monitor which can be deployed in remote locations to check factors such as dissolved oxygen, pH balance and conductivity.  With water quality-related diseases costing 3.7m lives a year across the globe, the monitor could not have come to market at a more pivota...