About the AGILE Clinical Trial Platform On 13 February 2021, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a new initiative under which the UK government is providing millions of pounds of additional funding to expand the new AGILE clinical trial platform. The funding has been awarded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and co-funded though the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). This new platform will allow for global innovators to progress cutting-edge treatments for COVID-19 through all 3 clinical trial phases in the UK, further protecting our supply chain. This in turn will attract the brightest of researchers and manufacturers from around the world to trial their medicines here in Britain.
“They picked a chair and committee without any consultation with the Scottish Government. “They will make recommendations in areas that are the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament. “Councillors, I feel that if there is to be a massive investment in Scotland surely to goodness it should be decided by the Scottish Parliament. “We elect MSPs and the Scottish Government to look after our interests and our priorities, not some Hooray Henry from the south of England that still thinks that Scotland belongs to England. I fear that it’s only a matter of time before this right-wing administration wind up the Scottish Parliament.”
UK made: 650V 200mm GaN foundry process for automotive in Wales
The UK government is backing the Compound Semiconductor Centre and Newport Wafer Fab to develop a 200mm Gallium Nitride power transistor foundry process.
Both these organisations are inside the compound semiconductor cluster in South Wales.
Coordinated jointly by the Centre and Fab, the intention is to deliver a 650V GaN-on-silicon HEMTs (all GaN power transistors are high electron mobility transistors) on 200mm wafers.
“We are initially targeting the electric vehicle segment of the market, including traction inverters, “said the Centre’s GaN programme manager Rob Harper. “As the project progresses, we hope to roll out custom foundry offerings that address additional market segments including mobile and laptop fast chargers, and energy storage inverters.”
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image captionSome asylum seekers housed at the camp have protested about conditions there
Housing asylum seekers in a military training camp in Pembrokeshire has placed a significant financial burden on Dyfed-Powys Police, according to the force s Police and Crime Panel.
Panel chairman Alun Lloyd-Jones said policing the Penally camp involved 13,919 hours of officer time, including 9,681 overtime at a cost of £297,000, up to the end of December.
The panel is calling on the UK Government department to reimburse the force for the additional costs.
It has attracted multiple protests - some by far-right groups and some by concerned locals.