
Mike Scialom
Business Correspondent at Cambridge Independent
Associate Editor at IQ Magazine
Business correspondent and senior journalist/Cambridge Independent. Views my own
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5 days ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Mike Scialom
MathsFit won Independent Business of the Year 2025 at the Club Hub Awards in Birmingham. The innovative after-school club integrates maths with imaginative games to engage primary school children in Cambridgeshire. MathsFit was founded by Lisa Eagling – a National Business Women’s Awards winner in late 2024 – in 2021. Since the service was launched in 2022, MathsFit has won five awards.
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6 days ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Mike Scialom
It proved anything but an impossible mission for the team at Welch’s as they were called on to transport these Boeing Stearman Model 75 biplanes from Duxford to Leicester Square this month for the premiere of the Tom Cruise blockbuster in which they feature, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
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1 week ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Mike Scialom
A pro-Palestine encampment has been set up on Trinity College’s lawn on Trinity Street to protest the University of Cambridge college’s continued investments in the Israeli war machine. Half a dozen tents along with associated gazebos were installed on the land by the side of the college’s Trinity Street entrance on Friday (30 May). At 1pm on Saturday (31 May) a rally took place on the site.
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1 week ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Mike Scialom
Sparxell, the pioneering developer of the world’s first 100 per cent plant-based colourant, has secured a €1.9million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC). Backed by the Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton conglomerate – which includes Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy, Tiffany & Co and Loewe – the University of Cambridge spin-out will use the finance to scale up to tonne-level production.
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1 week ago |
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | Mike Scialom
Pushpanath Krishnamurthy, the Cambridge-based climate activist and fair trade campaigner, has published his first book, The Unreasonable Transformers of South India. The book describes a 6,500km journey through the markets and businesses of south India where Push, as he is known, grew up. The author interviews the manufacturers, designers, weavers, stallholders, toy-makers, farmers and basket makers that make up the Ahmisa economy.
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