The North East, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Yorkshire and the Humber are becoming hotbeds for technology innovation, according to a new report.
These regions are levelling up their contribution to the industry, and leading tech brands are choosing to base their businesses there, according to research by London Tech Week and the UK Tech Cluster Group.
This, the organisations said, meant they were fertile breeding grounds for some of the very best startups and SMEs in the sector .
Durham in the North East is the home of digital-only challenger bank, Atom Bank
The reports are part of the 12 clusters of tech initiative, which aims to map the industry across the UK and provide a guide to the different regional clusters.
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Retail sales fall 3.8% in November as second lockdown hits High Street
The second national lockdown saw November retail sales record their first fall since April as Covid restrictions once again forced non-essential shops to close down.
Retail sales volumes fell 3.8 per cent last month, with clothing retailers suffering the biggest slump as the sector recorded a 19 per cent decline since October, figures by the Office for National Statistics show.
But November’s decline was limited by a sharp pick-up in online sales and healthy spending in supermarkets and other essential retailers.
Online sales rose 6.3 per cent over the month and are up a massive 75 per cent compared to last year, helped by heavy discounts and Britons completing their Christmas shopping digitally.