Two young entrepreneurs have been backed by the UK’s innovation agency as they aim to turn their ideas into sustainable businesses.
A total of 63 young people around the UK have won Young Innovator Awards from Innovate UK, including North East women Charlotte Ripley and Yuru Guo.
Ms Ripley, who is 21 and from Gateshead, has developed a wireless bee monitoring service called HiveGuard which aims to help beekeepers keep their hives safe from harm remotely. The system notifies the keeper through a messaging app if anything goes wrong with the hive or there is a potential threat.
