WORCESTER is celebrating a double win for innovation with two successful businesses flying the flag for the city on the international stage.

Two local businesses are featured in this year’s Queen's Awards for Enterprise, Greenlighting Limited and Postcode Anywhere.

Worcester MP Robin Walker, who offered his congratulations, recently met with the team from Greenlighting Limited, a major local employer of apprentices which won the Queen's Award for Innovation for its work on LED lighting solutions.

With 14 employees the business is one of the fastest growing small businesses in Worcester.

The company recently celebrated its nomination as a top 100 apprenticeship employer by the National Apprenticeship Service.

Mr Walker has also welcomed a Queen's Award for Postcode Anywhere PCA Predict, a technology business that he welcomed to Diglis when they moved their headquarters there a few years ago.

Their technology Capture+ allows them to look up postcodes and addresses all over the world and is already a major export success for the county.

Mr Walker brought PCA founder Guy Mucklow to a Downing Street reception to meet with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, last year.

Mr Walker said: “Worcester has a long history of innovation whether it was as one of the birthplaces of the industrial revolution, the home of a world famous sauce or revolutionary efficient boilers.

"Today the technological revolution continues in Worcester and it is great to see local businesses at the forefront of e-commerce and energy efficiency.

"The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are an opportunity to celebrate the best of British business and the successes that they can achieve both at home and abroad.

"In order to keep growing the British economy and keep driving up productivity we need to see more innovation and more investment in skills for the future.

"Both Postcode Anywhere and Greenlighting are business we should be proud to have based in Worcester and we should be proud to send out into the world.”