Wastewater energy firm Wase gets the beers in with £1.1m deals

Wastewater energy firm Wase gets the beers in with £1.1m deals

A university spin-out company that generates energy from industrial wastewater has won its first significant contracts with a series of food and drink manufacturers. Wase has signed £1.1 million of deals for the use of its technology, including a £500,000 contract with the Sussex brewery Hepworth to create biomethane that will be used to power…

Labour’s EV policy ‘forcing manufacturers to supply wrong cars’

Labour’s EV policy ‘forcing manufacturers to supply wrong cars’

Car manufacturers are restricting sales of petrol and hybrid vehicles to avoid net zero fines and meet government targets, one of the country’s largest motor retailers has warned. Robert Forrester, the chief executive of Vertu Motors which has 192 outlets nationwide, said manufacturers were delaying delivering cars until next year to avoid breaching government quotas….

Euan Blair’s Multiverse recruits firm’s AI to pick candidates

Euan Blair’s Multiverse recruits firm’s AI to pick candidates

Euan Blair’s workplace training business has bought a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to select candidates for job vacancies. Multiverse, a business launched by Blair to train people without university degrees, has acquired Searchlight for an undisclosed sum to help provide organisations with employees using machine learning technology that claims to identify candidates four…

The EU’s big two have a distinct air of malaise

The EU’s big two have a distinct air of malaise

This week’s European rentrée from the summer break has been hijacked by a deepening Franco-German headache. In Berlin, the political establishment has been shaken by a historic electoral breakthrough for the Alternative for Germany, a hard-right party, in regional elections that have raised questions about a premature end to Germany’s shaky three-party coalition. In Paris,…