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Chemistry World November 30, 2011 Patrick Walter	Autumn windfall for UK science and industry The UK government has announced a raft of measures in its autumn statement to try to boost the flagging economy. There is some good news for the research community, as well as the chemical and life science industries.
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Chemistry World September 10, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Research bodies urge UK government to protect science funding Nearly 200 research organizations have signed an open letter urging the UK government to protect science funding in the 2015 UK spending review.
Chemistry World June 11, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	GSK Job Cuts Hit Chemists GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the jobs of hundreds of scientists as it restructures its drug R&D operations.
Chemistry World April 22, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Darling budgets for high tech growth Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave a speech which focused heavily on how he wants to produce a 'hi tech Britain that will lead our economic recovery'
Chemistry World April 16, 2010 Sean Milmo	Ineos starts UK chemicals exodus Ineos's decision to relocate its headquarters to Switzerland because of corporate taxation concerns may spark an exodus of chemical and pharmaceutical companies from having their headquarters in the UK.
Chemistry World October 12, 2012 Laura Howes	Government adds 200 million to research partnership fund At the Conservative party conference earlier this week, UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne pledged 200 million of new money to the Research Partnership Investment Fund which supports university capital projects.
Chemistry World July 12, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Chemistry will underpin economic growth, say industry leaders A cross-industry collaboration is trying to unite the UK chemicals sector, building a robust industry landscape founded on basic chemical feedstock manufacturing supporting innovation across all the chemical-using industries.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Andy Extance	GSK will pay off UK graduate tuition fees Potential undergraduate chemistry students concerned about their prospects in the face of plant closures and increased tuition fees have been given some cheer by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.
Chemistry World November 23, 2015 Emma Stoye	Labour would increase R&D spending to 3% of GDP The UK's shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said a Labour government would aim to raise the amount spent on R&D to 3% of GDP by 2030.
Chemistry World December 6, 2012 Patrick Walter	Autumn statement science boost to offset cuts The UK science community has welcomed an additional 600 million pounds of investment in research infrastructure. The money was announced in the autumn statement by George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer.
Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Andrew Turley	AstraZeneca to cut 7300 more jobs UK drugmaker AstraZeneca has announced plans to cut a further 7300 jobs to make annual savings of $1.6 billion by the end of 2014, a move that will cost the company $2.1 billion in the near term.
Chemistry World March 20, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	UK Drug Firms to Slash Research and Jobs The UK pharmaceutical industry is expecting to cut jobs and investment in R&D following an alarming slump in confidence in the UK market.
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Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Sarah Houlton	New department takes responsibility for UK science The UK government reshuffle has reunited the departments responsible for business and science.
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Chemistry World January 5, 2016 Patrick Walter	Count your blessings Public funding for science in the United Kingdom will be protected in real-terms, meaning that it will keep pace with inflation.
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Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Maria Burke	Government Launches UK Life Sciences Strategy Prime minister David Cameron has announced a package of measures designed to boost the UK's life sciences industry.
Chemistry World January 28, 2013 Maria Burke	Plan for UK's 'eight great technologies' outlined Advanced materials and energy are two of the 'eight great technologies' that the UK government wants to use to propel the country to future growth.
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Emma Stoye	Scientists asked how to spend UK science cash The UK government is asking the scientific community what the portion of the science budget set aside for infrastructure should be spent on over the next five years.
Chemistry World November 13, 2012 Leila Sattary	Chancellor singles out science to drive economic growth The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has outlined eight technology areas in which he wants the UK to lead the world.
Chemistry World March 19, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Global AstraZeneca restructuring will cost 1600 jobs The company's global research blueprint will now be centered on the creation of three 'strategic R&D centers' for small molecules and biologics, to be based in Cambridge in the UK, Gaithersburg in Maryland, US, and Molndal in Sweden, to be completed by 2016.
Chemistry World March 25, 2010 Sarah Houlton	Budget boon for science and industry Science and industry were offered a few nuggets of cheer during a political pre-election budget from Alistair Darling, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer.
Chemistry World September 8, 2010 Andrew Turley	Vince Cable: science cuts are coming Taxpayers should only back research that makes money or is academically exceptional, UK business secretary Vince Cable said today in his first speech on science.
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Chemistry World November 9, 2015 Emma Stoye	UK science's 'superpower' status at risk The UK government must commit to spend more on science R&D in the long-term if the UK is to remain a 'scientific superpower', according to a report published by the House of Commons
Chemistry World July 29, 2009 Sean Milmo	Chemicals sector struggles in recession A rash of plant closures in the chemicals hub of northeast England has raised fears that widespread restructuring during the recession could leave the UK without production capacity for vital chemicals.
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Emma Stoye	New Centers for Doctoral Training announced Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced the UK will fund another 22 Centers for Doctoral Training, taking the total government investment in CDTs over 500 million pounds.
Chemistry World December 4, 2012 Andrew Turley	Drug R&D costs rising Inventing a new drug costs an enormous amount of money. It's part of the reason why the pharma industry is struggling to fill its pipelines. But we'd like to think that -- however slowly -- that cost is coming down. Unfortunately it isn't.
Chemistry World February 10, 2015 Emma Stoye	Science societies urge next UK government to invest more in research The next UK government should invest twice as much in research, according to a joint statement released by the National Academies.
Chemistry World December 5, 2013 Patrick Walter	Little new for science in autumn statement George Osborne, also announced that the next autumn statement would be accompanied by a science and innovation strategy. This will form part of a roadmap on how the government will fund science over the longer-term.
Chemistry World April 8, 2014 Emma Stoye	Contamination troubles strike GSK Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline has been warned by the US Food and Drug Administration to address manufacturing problems at the SmithKline Beecham chemical plant in Cork, Ireland, after FDA inspectors found evidence of contamination.
Chemistry World December 13, 2013 Maria Burke	UK overtakes US on research quality metric The UK has overtaken the US and now ranks first in one indicator of research quality, according to a new report commissioned by the UK's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
Chemistry World August 21, 2014	Should they stay or should they go? What would a yes vote in Scotland's independence referendum mean for chemistry? With just a few weeks to go, that's the question put to academics and industrialists.
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo	What will August bring? With many already enjoying their breaks or counting the days to some well deserved time away from the office or the lab, I wasn't expecting to have much to report during July and August. However, July has proven me wrong.
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Chemistry World November 25, 2010 Mike Brown	Capping scientific migrants A new UK immigration cap could bias against researchers looking to come to the UK.
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Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Sarah Houlton	Academia Grows Its Role in Drug Discovery The number of pharma patents being filed by universities around the world is soaring compared with those coming from industry.
Chemistry World February 2, 2011 Andy Extance	Pfizer to close historic UK site Most of the 2400 people employed at the Pfizer site in Sandwich, UK, will be made redundant over the next 18-24 months as the US pharma giant restructures its research operations.
Chemistry World February 2007 Mark Peplow	Science Stars Rise in the East Collaborate or die. That's the message of a series of reports from the independent thinktank Demos, claiming that British science is in danger of being sidelined unless it tries harder to work with booming Asian nations such as China, India and South Korea.
Chemistry World April 19, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Objections raised to GSK pay-for-delay deals The UK Office of Fair Trading has said that GlaxoSmithKline's deals to delay generic drugs infringed competition laws.
Chemistry World September 2009	Education and wealth It seems that the UK government is interested in answering the question: what return does the UK get for the money it puts into academic research in chemistry?
Chemistry World March 2011 Bea Perks	Editorial: At the forefront The news that most of Pfizer's 2400 employees at Sandwich, U.K. will be made redundant over the next two years was met with surprise, disappointment and anger.
Chemistry World October 22, 2010 Akshat Rathi	UK carbon capture a one horse race On the same day UK ministers revealed a 1 billion fund for the development of carbon capture and storage, power company E.ON UK announced it is pulling out of the government's national CCS competition, leaving just one company in the race.