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A new innovation hub that is likely to create around 750 new jobs across the East Midlands has been officially opened, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal. The Advanced Technology Innovation Centre was officially opened at Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park (LUSEP).

The UK’s steel industry has taken yet another hit as Caparo Industries, a steel giant with more than 1,700 employees and significant operations in the West Midlands, has gone into administration, a recent news report in the business media has been able to reveal. PwC has been appointed to 16 companies within the group.

The site of a former Victorian hospital in Coventry has been earmarked for redevelopment into a student village with enough space to house hundreds of residents, a recent news report in the local media has been able to find.

An East Midlans law firm has relocated to new offices following an increase in demand for its services, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal. Emery Johnson Astills is relocating its Loughborough office Churchgate after dealing with a diverse assortment of legal work.

A new £300,000 training academy has been launched in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, as part of an initiative to develop and support the next generation of manufacturing professionals, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal. The In-Comm Training & Business Services partnered with metal pressing and assembly business Salop Design & Engineering Ltd to create the 10,000 sq ft facility on Brixton Way.

A recruitment company with offices across the East Midlands has revealed plans to expand its team and create more jobs after taking up a larger office in Derby, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.

A Danish pension-provider has revealed plans to create up to 250 new jobs in Nottingham after securing office space in the city, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to find.

The Leicester branch of one of the UK’s best-known professional services firms has taken up a record number of trainees, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.

One of the UK’s largest parcel delivery firms has revealed plans to create up to 90 new jobs in Lincoln after entering an agreement to take up a 42,783 sq ft depot unit on an industrial development which was recently granted planning permission, a recent news report has been able to reveal.

Multiple jobs have been safeguarded after a property consultancy firm in the East Midlands has been bought out of administration, a recent news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.

Plans to develop a multimillion-pound industrial scheme totalling more than 600,000 sq ft in the West Midlands could see hundred of jobs being created in the region, a news report in the local business media has been able to reveal.

Multiple jobs could be created should plans to redevelop a shoe factory in Northamptonshire which was gutted by a fire in 2007 get the green light, a news report in the local business media has been able to reveal. Paragon Property Developments hopes to transform the former Express Works site on Church Street to provide a new supermarket, which will be operated by Central England Co-operative, a retail unit and