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AKQA appoints Rosie Milton-Schönemann as Global Director of Marketing and Communications

Stuart Mitchell

AKQA has appointed Rosie Milton-Schönemann as its global director of marketing and communications. This newly created role reflects the agency’s ambition to further strengthen its brand, reputation and market positioning in its next chapter under AKQA CEO and WPP group chief strategy officer, Baiju Shah. In this role, Rosie will lead AKQA’s global marketing and communications strategy, drawing from a career working with companies operating at the intersection of creativity and technology. Rosie will partner with leaders across AKQA’s worldwide business to strengthen its reputation, sharpen its narrative and help…

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Channel 4 and Lloyds award four Black in Business winners £200,000 each in advertising airtime

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4, in partnership with Lloyds, today announces the four winners of this year’s Black in Business initiative, who will each receive £200,000 in advertising airtime alongside a tailored business support package. Now in its third iteration, the initiative supports emerging Black-owned businesses by giving each winner the opportunity to bring their brand and business to new audiences through the power of TV advertising. The winners’ package includes £200,000 of Channel 4 advertising airtime and the creation of a bespoke television campaign created in collaboration with production company Quiet Storm,…

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Global Talent visa expanded to innovative research businesses

Stuart Mitchell

The endorsed funderpathway of the Global Talent visa (GTV), managed by UKRI, has been expanded to include over 100 UK research-intensive businesses. The GTV is a key UK research visa, supporting the most exceptional minds from across the globe to work on funded research projects at UK research-intensive businesses. The flexible visa allows individuals to move between projects and enhance high-growth sectors. So far, through the endorsed funderpathway, UKRI has helped over 12,500 talented people from over 130 different countries to continue building their research careers in the UK. Now,…

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Innovate UK backs 100 women founders shaping the UK’s future industries

Stuart Mitchell

Innovate UK announces its largest ever Women in Innovation cohort, supporting women founders in businesses across manufacturing, digital tech and life sciences. The 2026 cohort includes entrepreneurs working on innovations that could improve healthcare, strengthen supply chains, support the transition to net zero and help UK businesses compete in global markets. Of the 100 women recognised: 61 award winners will receive a £75,000 grant alongside 12 months of tailored business support, training, networking and mentoring opportunities a further 39 highly commended applicants will receive the same 12 month business support…

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Poland needs carbon capture and storage to decarbonise heavy industry, but CCS will only scale if the full system becomes bankable

Stuart Mitchell

Poland has the industrial need, geological storage potential, and early-stage projects for carbon capture and storage (CCS) – but not yet the conditions to make it scale.  A new report from Clean Air Task Force (CATF), Achieving Systemic Bankability of Carbon Capture and Storage in Poland, provides a roadmap to move from early-stage carbon capture and storage projects to large-scale facilities, drawing on the systemic bankability framework. Carbon capture and storage can help cut CO₂ emissions from industrial processes that are difficult to decarbonise fully through electrification, including those in…

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