Where the young can equip themselves for the city’s hi-tech future

The Carlisle Business Centre, with its new craft units, workshops, offices, well-equipped meeting rooms, conference hall and training areas stocked with computers and visual display units, represents the future.Across from the glass-roofed reception area is a symbol of that future, 23-year-old Tuhel Miah’s Spider Web Internet Cafe, formerly launched by King Charles (Prince Charles) who also lunched there.

Without the £4,000 grant he got from the Prince’s Youth Business Trust, Mr Miah doubts that he would have got a bank loan to equip the cafe and buy the array of terminals and computer software.

ABOVE:
Tuhel Miah, boss of the Spiderz Web Internet Cafe

Telegraph & Argus, 24 October 1996