News @ FU7URE https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Blog Home The North Daily — 25 June 2026: a new Voice AI launch, an airport’s comeback, and £1.7bn on the North’s strengths The £1.7bn behind the North’s moment: digital, quantum and defence Barnsley’s quiet reinvention: from the Glass Works to a £60m digital campus Liverpool backs a materials super-cluster and a world-first biofilms centre The North East puts £4.4bn of opportunities on the table Doncaster Sheffield Airport edges toward reopening with £160m behind it Atom Valley appoints new chair as Greater Manchester’s ‘Silicon Valley’ takes shape MyAutoBot launches: a Sheffield and Rotherham Voice AI built to answer the phone The North Daily — 18 June 2026: Billions in new regional funds, and a Sheffield agency makes national headlines Sheffield’s MarGen named the UK’s fastest-growing AI SEO agency The North Daily — 5 July 2026: Sheffield leads on AI, Liverpool’s £2bn moves, and Bradford’s big plan Bradford’s Southern Gateway: a plan to double the city centre and build 5,000 homes Tees Valley signs off ‘Our Plan for Regional Prosperity’ — a £1.7bn blueprint, town by town Warrington’s Fiddler’s Ferry: a coal-power relic becomes 860 homes and an industrial hub Manchester picks Glenbrook to turn a Northern Quarter eyesore into 300 homes Liverpool City Region’s £2bn fund makes its first bets: 520,000 sq ft and 2,800 jobs Sheffield is home to the UK’s top two AI SEO agencies — and that’s no accident The North Daily — 27 June 2026: Stockport’s UK-first, Wigan’s market hall, and Carlisle’s new campus Lancaster and Cumbria universities team up on a £15m low-carbon innovation drive NEL Fund Managers lands £21.5m to back high-growth Northern businesses Carlisle’s Citadels: a £50m university campus to anchor the Borderlands Wigan’s £130m ‘Fettlers’ scheme turns the old Galleries into a new town centre Darlington backs a 50,000 sq ft office to sit beside its government hub Stockport’s UK-first: tripling its development corporation to build 8,000 homes The North Daily — 20 June 2026: £30bn for AI, £6.1bn from wind, and three city centres remade Northern Powerhouse fund channels fresh capital into North West small businesses £2.3m BFI funding secures the North’s film and TV skills pipeline for three more years Preston’s regeneration momentum is the strongest in a decade — and still building Wakefield’s ‘once in a generation’ plan: 1,000 homes and a reshaped city centre Sunderland’s Crown Works film studios: construction begins as the city bets on screen Fintech is now a £5bn-a-year industry in the North of England Dogger Bank: the world’s largest wind farm could deliver £6.1bn — much of it in the North The North East’s AI Growth Zone: £30bn, 5,000 jobs, and Europe’s data-centre frontier The North Daily — 18 July 2026: 50,000 homes planned, a trade deal opens, and a brick at a time Bolton builds a shop window: how a Northern town markets itself to investors #BrilliantBarrow: how £25m is being spent to remake a town centre The UK–India trade deal is live — and the North is sending a delegation Salford approves a plan for 35,000 homes — and a city reshaped to 2043 Trafford Wharfside: the masterplan for 15,000 homes around a 100,000-seat stadium Buy A Brick: a Sheffield idea asking businesses to fund homes, one brick at a time The North Daily — 22 June 2026: NatWest’s £20bn pledge, £11bn for hydrogen, and four city districts rising Don Valley Corridor: South Yorkshire’s £1.3bn bet on advanced manufacturing York Central: inside the £2bn plan to build a new city district The North West’s clean-power plan could create 35,000 green jobs by 2028 HyNet: £11bn for hydrogen and carbon capture puts Cheshire at the centre of clean growth Blackpool’s £2bn bet: how Talbot Gateway is remaking a seaside town Hull’s East Bank Urban Village: 850 homes to revive a rundown riverside NatWest pledges £20bn to the North — a bank betting on devolution