Regional investor guide: Southampton

You wouldn’t be wrong in associating Southampton with ports, shipping containers and cruise ships.

But the city is pushing its image to a whole new field: curing cancer.

In January, the University of Southampton opened the Centre of Cancer Immunology, with a £25m investment to research how to harness the body’s immune system to fight the disease as if it were a regular infection.

But what else has the city got to offer prospective investors?

Scroll down to find out.