Author: Rhys Gregory

Paramount Office Interiors Ltd, one of the UK’s leading workplace design, fit out and furniture specialists has today announced that the business has been acquired by its Management Team in a deal orchestrated by lead advisors Verde Corporate Finance and Greenaway Scott. The transaction was backed with funding from ABN AMRO Commercial Finance and also follow-in investment from GS Ventures. Award-winning Paramount Interiors, whose client list includes the Office for National Statistics, ITV, GoCompare, S4C, KPMG, The Royal Mint and the Welsh Rugby Union amongst others, is now aiming to build on the company’s success and explore future expansion plans…

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Eleven year old April Prince from Wrexham has developed such a love for engineering and robotics that she recently returned from China following an appearance on the country’s much-loved Clash Bots show, which is streamed online and watched by hundreds of millions of people every week. While competing on Clash Bots, similar to the UKs Robot Wars, April debuted her personally engineered ‘Dragon Princess’ robot, the latest robot in her collection which began with the pink axe machine ‘Glitterbomb’, that turned into a social media sensation following its appearance on UK Robot Wars in 2016. The Dragon Princess robot was…

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A Cardiff resident has been given the go-ahead to start the first legal challenge to a UK police force’s use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology, in what will be a critical nationwide test of the state’s power to deploy radical biometric surveillance methods. Ed Bridges – represented by human rights organisation Liberty – had threatened legal action against South Wales Police if it did not immediately end its use of AFR technology in public spaces. Chief Constable Matt Jukes has now confirmed the force will not seek to prevent the case from taking place – paving the way for…

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