Scheme supporting BRIT and Mercury Prize-winning artists begins new funding round Scheme Supporting UK Artists Begins New Funding Round £1.6 million Music Export Growth Scheme to support UK artists to go global opens up to applications  Funding criteria strengthened and due diligence process beefed up to build on scheme’s massive success  Scheme has led to an estimated £73.5 million return to the UK economy over the last eleven years  The Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS) is

Government doubles the number of models available for the top ECG discount Four More EV Models Qualify for £3,750 Discount Under Electric Car Grant as Taxpayers Pump an Extra £1.5 Billion into the Switch to Electric new Renault and MINI models are now eligible for the maximum £3,750 discount, with over 40,000 drivers benefitting from the grant since its launch in July follows an extra £1.5 billion announced at the Autumn Budget to power up the UK’s electric vehicle revolution

Scotland’s space sector will receive a major funding boost to accelerate breakthrough technologies and boost commercialisation, the UK Space Agency will announce today at Space-Comm Expo Scotland Scottish Space Innovation Secures UK Space Agency Investment Scottish universities will collaborate with partners nationwide to receive a share of £3.8 million from the National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP), on technologies for secure communications, environmental monitoring, an

Consent marks significant step forward for UK clean energy Morgan Offshore Wind Secures Development Consent for Major Irish Sea Wind Farm Morgan Offshore Wind Limited, a joint venture between BP Alternative Energy Investments Ltd and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, has received development consent for its Morgan Generation Assets project. The Secretary of State granted approval on 29 August 2025, marking a significant milestone in the UK’s transition to clean energy. The projec

Annual report sees great work being done by education and care professionals but there are concerns about the rapid growth in children’s homes, and outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable children remain poorer than their peers Ofsted Annual Report Warns Against ‘Profiteering’ in Children’s Homes Sector Rapid growth in the number of children’s homes registered with Ofsted – up 15% in the last year – masks very significant problems with location, affordability and suitabilit

Director disqualified for 15 years Maximum Director Ban for Music Producer Who Faked Bank Statements to Secure £150,000 Loan and VAT Refund Felix Milton has been banned from acting as a company director for 15 years after submitting falsified bank statements to obtain a £150,000 government-backed loan and a VAT refund of almost £180,000  Milton altered several documents to show millions of pounds in his company account when the true balance was as little as £3.20, and created

Company director pleads guilty SFO Secures Conviction in International Aircraft Fraud The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has secured the conviction of the director of AOG Technics, a company that sold aircraft engine parts with forged documentation. Parts sold were fitted into the world’s most widely used passenger aircraft engine, the CFM56 engine.  ADVERTISEMENT: Send Money Worldwide with Wise – Get a Free Transfer! Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala plead guilty at Southwark Crown Co

Overspeeding incident at Grantham South Junction, Lincolnshire, 26 September 2025 Overspeeding at Grantham South Junction At around 09:20 on 26 September 2025, train reporting number 1Y80, the 07:08 Middlesborough to London Kings Cross service, operated by London North Eastern Railway (LNER), was involved in an overspeeding incident at Grantham South Junction. ADVERTISEMENT: Send Money Worldwide with Wise – Get a Free Transfer! The train was routed over diverging points with

A man who killed his cellmate while in custody awaiting trial had his sentence extended after the Solicitor General intervened Cellmate Killer’s Sentence Increased Vitale Tanga (41), originally from Moldova and of no fixed address, has had his sentence increased by five years after the Solicitor General referred his case to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme.  The court heard that in September 2022, Tanga strangled his cellmate, Tajinder Kular,