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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people, to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing and other restrictions has impacted the daily life of UK citizens.

The UK has recently extended membership of the UN Convention on Women's Rights to the crown dependency of Jersey, granting its approximately 50,000 women extended human rights protections.

Six UK space sector operators have secured a share of over £2 million of government funds to help develop the UK’s satellite navigation and timing network.

An 11-day strike beginning on May 14 at the Hovis bakery plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finally ended this week after staff agreed to a new salary offer.

DPAA, the global trade marketing association which connects out-of-home [OOH] media with the wider advertising community, announced in May that Talon America CEO, Jim Wilson, will join its board of directors.

Leading international fashion outlet developer, Fashion House Group, has opened a new €25 million outlet centre in the east of Romanian capital, Bucharest, which becomes the group’s second such outlet in the city.

Writing on Future Life Wealth Management’s business blog, independent financial planner Emma Baumback highlights the importance of taking ownership of one’s finance, and emphasises that as the economy begins to reopen with the removal of Covid-19 social restrictions, now is no better time to consider a financial plan for the future.

In her first keynote address in Teaching Scotland since being appointed new GTC Scotland chief executive, Dr Pauline Stephen writes that now is the time for the teaching profession to decide what future Scottish education will have.

Johnson Controls has been named among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2021.

Writing for The Leaders Council, International School of Creative Arts [ISCA] executive director, Colin Kerrigan, explains why combining traditional skills with the ability to use cutting-edge technology holds the key to excellence in Art and Design.

The prime minister’s former chief aide, Dominic Cummings, has this week given evidence to a joint session of the Commons Health, and Science & Technology select committees, in what was his first public account of what occurred within government throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

Volvo Construction Equipment [Volvo CE] has partnered up with Californian property firm Baltic Sands to pilot two of its compact electric machines, in order to gauge how they perform in a remote and challenging desert environment.

Based on her own in-depth experiences and research, Positive Psychology and Leadership Consultant Charlotte Wiseman explores the issue of stress why it should not always connote negativity, and how one can bounce back from stress-induced burnout.

The town of Southport is to receive £37.5 million from the government’s Towns Fund from which five major projects are set to benefit, as is another ongoing initiative at Southport Pleasureland, LBN Daily has reported.