Give us our wings, Britain's largest airport group tells next government
MAG chief Ken O'Toole has said the next UK government must put airports at the "heart of their economic plan" to jump-start British business.
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MAG chief Ken O'Toole has said the next UK government must put airports at the "heart of their economic plan" to jump-start British business.
Knowledge intensive sectors are driving major employment growth in the Cambridge city region – a 20-mile radius from the centre of Cambridge. The sectors grew headcount by 5.7 per cent over the latest year of data (2021-22 to 2022-23), led by an 11.1 per cent increase in life sciences. The data, recorded in the annual Cambridge Ahead monitor, also captures turnover for which hi-tech manufacturing was the standout with growth of more than 18.7 per cent.
London Stansted's expansion will be key for the "globally important" Cambridge-London tech corridor, its boss has said.
Marie-Madeleine Fuerbeth tracks the progress of the much-debated government project to make Cambridge into Europe's Silicon Valley
A study by Cambridge Ahead, a membership organisation of 47 major businesses in the city, found four fifths of 97 respondents now spend less time in the office than before the Covid outbreak.