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Engineers at Liverpool University claim that building estuary barrages in the north west could provide more thanfive per cent of the UK’s electricity.

Researchers, working in collaboration with Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, examined ways to generate electricity from tidal sources of renewable energy in the Eastern Irish Sea. The study showed that four estuary barrages, across the Solway Firth, Morecambe Bay and the Mersey and Dee estuaries, could be capable of meeting approximately half of the north-west region?s electricity needs.

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California-based Ardian, the developer of a catheter-based medicalsystem to treat hypertension, has received $47m (£32.84m) in a financing round led by US medical-device giant Medtronic.

Hypertension, which affects approximately one-third of the developed world’s adult population, significantly increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and chronic kidney disease and is the single most common contributor to death worldwide.

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