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Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and visits to GP

If the 3.7 million Britons with sore joints but without a care plan exercised for two hours a week then they, their families, the NHS and the UK economy would benefit by as much as £34bn, researchers say.

Nuffield Health, Frontier Economics and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) analysed the structured exercise programme that the private gym group has offered free of charge to more than 40,000 joint pain sufferers who used their 110 gyms across the UK.

Expert analysis of the UK water sector

A Look at Supervisory Regulation - Annabelle Ong explores how a supervisory approach in water could work in practice.

Vodafone Romania completes acquisition of Telekom Romania Mobile Communications

Vodafone’s acquisition of Telekom Romania has a value of 30 million euros. This marks a significant milestone for the telecommunications industry, consolidating the market and enabling the right scale for innovation and significant investments.

True cost of the UK’s obesity crisis revealed – and how weight-loss jabs could be the answer

The UK’s obesity crisis has a real economic cost. Frontier Economics estimates that the combined costs of obesity and people being overweight amount to £126bn a year. This could rise to as much as £150bn in the next decade if action is not taken.

UK’s obesity and overweight epidemic costs £126bn a year, study suggests

Exclusive: Experts say higher figure than past estimates should be wake-up call for ministers to tackle obesity. The cost of the UK’s epidemic of overweight and obesity has soared to £126bn a year, far higher than previous estimates, according to a study.

Sun, sweat and urban heat islands: How hot is your borough?

Frontier Economics used satellites to do some London-focused urban heat island mapping of their own. It’s these maps that have caused my path to cross with Charlie Bone’s; Frontier examined the average temperature calculated from a summer 2023 heatwave that assaulted London and pulled out the three boroughs which suffered the most: Brent, Barking & Dagenham — and Hammersmith & Fulham.

The True Value of Undersea Cable Security

Europe’s digital economy relies on infrastructure most people never see. Beneath the surface – both figuratively and literally – submarine cables carry a material proportion of cross-border internet traffic, including the data flows generated by the cloud services used by European enterprises.

The £25bn-a-year prize at stake in Starmer’s Brexit reset talks with EU

Removing trade barriers on goods, including food and drink and electrical items, could result in a 2.2 per cent uplift in gross domestic product in the long run, boosting the economic growth the prime minister so desperately wants to deliver, financial analysts Frontier Economics found.

Threat of global trade war pulls down Brits’ economic confidence

“That could create opportunities if retailers are nimble to pickup this cheaper stock, but also risk of more low price competition,” Tim Black, economist at Frontier Economics, said.

BW ESS and Zelos advance 1.5GW BESS project pipeline in Germany

 A study by Frontier Economics states that the capacity of utility-scale BESS can generate €12 billion ($13.6 billion) in added economic value.