In the wake of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget last week a small group of people on one of the UK’s most northerly islands were celebrating. Unst, part of Shetland, is home to the UK’s most northerly cafe, postbox and cake fridge (this is a Shetland thing). It also boasts the advanced construction site that will be the UK’s most northerly spaceport. In his Budget Hunt awarded that port, SaxaVord, £10m.
More good news came this week when HyImpulse, one of two German firms contracted to launch from SaxaVord, was granted a licence to do so by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (SaxaVord itself
