Language is Everything

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The Hull Daily Mail has run a feature about us teaming up with the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber. Please click on the image to open a larger version in a new window.

Looking to the future (2)

Another highlight from Business Stream, Hull & Humber's groundbreaking broadband TV station: Carolyn Burgess (our chief exec) chairs Goole 2028, a regional summit meting that looks 20 years into the future. Watch it here.

Looking to the future

Carolyn Burgess, our chief exec, stars in a Stream Online feature about a World Trade Centre Open Day held earlier this week.

You can watch Carolyn here.

Yesterday, meanwhile, Carolyn chaired Goole 2028, a regional summit meeting to discuss the town's future.

Backed by Yorkshire Forward, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, the aim of event was to bring together the key people who are helping to shape the future of Goole.

You can read the Hull Daily Mail's preview of the meeting by clicking on the image on the right.

Language is Everything and the Olympics

There are just 16 days to go to the Beijing Olympics — and only 1,465 days until London 2012.

We're proud of the bit we did to help London win the Games. In November 2004, we contributed to London's Language Skills: a Vision for London 2012, a briefing paper for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) put together by the Regional Language Network. We highlighted the unparalleled commitment of the capital's public authorities to the removal of language and cultural barriers through telephone interpreting, face to face interpreting and written translation.

London went on to beat four other candidate cities — Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris — at a dramatic IOC meeting in Singapore in July 2005. You can relive the nail-biting announcement here.

Enterprise in Action

Later today Carolyn Burgess, our chief exec, will be a member of the judging panel for the Enterprise in Action Humber Final 2008.

The top companies from participating schools in the Humber region will be competing against each other at the University of Hull Business School, with ages ranging from 12 to 15.

Meanwhile, Carolyn has been featured in Hello from Hull and the East Riding, the latest publication from the economic development company Hull Forward.

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