A BUSINESS in Weyhill has been celebrated at the 'best of British businesses' at a prestigious Buckingham Palace awards dinner.

King Charles hosted a reception for recipients of The King’s Awards for Enterprise in London on Tuesday, June 27.

The awards recognise outstanding achievements by UK firms in the categories of innovation, international trade, sustainable development and promoting opportunity through social mobility.

Also at the event were the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey and Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.

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Among those were Peter Kyle-Henney, owner of Sesanti, which won an award for innovation.

He said he worked in security and could only talk about “the stuff that’s not classified”.

He said: “We are into security imaging. I was so surprised the King knew about thermal imaging and the benefits of the technology, he (Charles) was extremely engaging and was genuinely interested to understand why the innovation was as innovative as it was.

“The Duke of Edinburgh was talking to me about using night-vision equipment for security and was extremely knowledgeable, so both of them surprised me enormously.

“He (Charles) said to me at the end, he tapped me on the shoulder and he said ‘It’s nice to see somebody’s keeping the country safe’.”

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Sesanti’s website states: “high-performance surveillance assets from our site in Hampshire, and our next generation ultra-low light level long range product (ULARI) is the subject of this award”.

It continues: “The technology uses high-speed processing and new algorithms to extract high-quality imagery from very few photons”, adding “the equipment is designed to aid saving lives, enabling safer operating distances than can currently be achieved”.