A leading pharmaceutical firm which has a UK base in Greater Brighton has received the backing of UK public health officials for its test which finds out whether people have been infected with coronavirus in the past. Public Health England said the antibody test,...

Greater Brighton has welcomed the work of leading healthcare companies GSK and Diversey to help protect essential workers in the fight against COVID-19.  Global brand GSK, which has a branch in Worthing, contacted the Sussex Resilience Forum (SRF) with the offer of...

The Leader of Crawley Borough Council and the town’s MP have written to the Government calling for urgent help and listing 10 interventions to rescue the town’s economy. This follows the recent Centre for Cities report, which forecasts that Crawley - which is a key...

Greater Brighton leaders have agreed to work up a sustainable Economic Recovery Plan to help the City Region bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. With lockdown affecting many of the tens of thousands of businesses and one million residents across the area, the...

Greater Brighton engineering firm Ricardo is using its design and manufacturing expertise to support the UK’s fight against COVID-19. As a part of the national effort to provide much needed personal protective equipment (PPE), the world leading engineering consultancy...

Greater Brighton leaders have praised a local engineering firm Ricardo for driving forward the push to cut carbon emissions in transport across the globe. Having been founded in Shoreham over a century ago by Sir Harry Ricardo, the company is a global, multi-industry,...

The new government has been warned that it must not leave the South East behind as it seeks to ‘level up’ investment between the North and South. The chairman of Greater Brighton, Cllr Daniel Humphreys, said a "false narrative" had been allowed to arise which...

How do you define a successful business? It’s a question many people who either oversee existing enterprises or are planning to start up new ones often pose. For many years, the pursuit of profit was the key driving factor. But, with issues such as globalisation,...

Crawley Borough Council and property investment and development firm Westrock have started a major mixed-use scheme that will help regenerate the town centre and provide much-needed new housing and office space. The public private partnership between Crawley Borough...

Plans to restore and enhance Brighton’s Royal Pavilion Garden have received a welcome boost. The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded initial support and development funding of £214,400 to progress plans to improve and enhance the historic garden and apply for a...

Businesses in the south of England could be boosted by a new £11million project from the University of Chichester Business School which will drive economic growth in the region. The initiative, known as the Business Hot House programme, is offering to support more...

A £1.5 million Local Growth Fund cash injection is set to improve digital connectivity across the Coast to Capital area. Funding was approved for a number of digital schemes at the recent Coast to Capital Board meeting. The LEP’s goal is to bring a world-class digital...