Marconi Communications will recruit 400 staff to double the workforce at its Nottingham R&D site. It will hire the engineering staff over the next three to four years for its centre near Beeston, and is looking for 100 graduates by the end of this year. Most of the staff will be hardware engineers, but the company will also be taking on radio frequency and software engineers. The company may also move the research operation to another site in Nottingham to accommodate the expansion. ®