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Lord Pickles as chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) has said that improvements need to be made to the system that oversees private sector jobs for ministers and civil servants.

Scotland’s Loch Lomond Golf Club is close to completing a four-year renovation project to revamp its course drainage, Golf Course Architecture reports.

The Ski Club of Great Britain has recently announced a new partnership with GB Snowsport, the UK’s national governing body for snowsports.

Government are to launch a consultation on whether vaccination is to be a condition of work in care homes. A 5-week consultation will be launched looking at requiring care home providers, caring for older adults, to deploy only those workers who have received their COVID-19 vaccination to further protect residents who are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19.

Magnavale has announced that it has secured both planning permission and funding for an expansion to its Warrington cold storage facility.

Just a month after three members of the governments LGBT advisement panel quit, the entire panel is set to be disbanded.

Unified communications, contact centre and cyber solutions specialist, Babble, has purchased 81G Blue, its third acquisition in as many months.

As was the case with so many businesses across the UK, the announcement of the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020 left Brighton and Hove bakery business Sugardough facing an uncertain future.

After a year of stop-start opening and restrictions on trade, the first step in a full re-opening of the economy has taken place on Monday 12th April. England has moved into step 2 of the ‘cautious but irreversible’ easing of lockdown, meaning that hospitality can open outdoors alongside non-essential retail, gyms, zoos and beauty services.

The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has announced that frontline health workers and their dependents will be granted free visa extensions. The extensions will be automatically granted to elligble workrs whose visas were set to expire by 1st October 2021.

Talon Outdoor has announced plans for a trading reset for 2021 which will simplify Out of Home [OOH] Media purchasing by valuing target audiences as well as OOH assets.

The Transport Secretary, Grant Schapps, has released a framework that sets out how international travel can return in a safe way. Utilising a traffic light system that will place countries into risk categories in an effort to protect the public & vaccination programme from new variants of Covid-19.

Under the government’s roadmap out of lockdown for England, April 12 will see the nation move into Step Two of the plans, with additional premises allowed to reopen providing they adhere to social distancing rules.

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband and the longest-serving royal consort has died at the age of 99.