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The Council for Science and Technology, in partnership with the Government Office for Science, has published a new report focused on harnessing technology to support the long-term sustainability of the UK's healthcare system.

The Department for Education has announced a new £10 million scheme aimed at offering students in participating schools with more support in English and maths.

Registry Trust, a not-for-profit organisation which maintains the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines for the UK & Ireland, has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority's consultation on a new Consumer Duty.

UK Net Zero Business Champion Andrew Griffith MP has sent a letter to the British manufacturing sector encouraging businesses to make the pledge to cut emissions in half by 2030, with the goal of being "net zero" by 2050.

The UK has signed a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech that will see 35 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine delivered in the second half of 2022.

UK farmers are facing the threat of rising input costs as they look ahead to the harvest of 2022, with the planting of winter crops already underway.

The Delta variant accounts for 99 per cent of COVID-19 cases in the UK, the latest Public Health England update has confirmed.

Durham County Council has agreed to a region-to-region tourism collaboration with A Coruña Provincial Council in northwest Spain.

The UK government housing agency, Homes England, has pledged £40 million in investment to help provide hundreds of older people with new homes.

Independent Stratford-upon-Avon-based jeweller Pragnell has been named on Midlands Business Insider's top 300 mid-market companies list.

British Ferrari specialists GTO Engineering goes where few others in the car restoration industry can, with the Revival - a reverse-engineered Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB - a perfect example.

The UK is set to double the level of humanitarian and development aid sent to Afghanistan amid the ongoing conflict, and the impact of drought and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Technology training provider Sparta Global has been named as a recipient of a prestigious Princess Royal Training Award in recognition of its inclusive language training.

Based in Hampshire, The Loddon School serves students between the age of eight and 19 with a wide range of complex needs. Offering year-round provision, the requirements of staff and management are unlike that of many educators around the country, which meant that the process of future-proofing the school was all the more complicated. Principal Dr Gill Barrett discusses the process in more detail below.