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Sacha Lord, Greater Manchester’s night time economy advisor, launched a legal challenge to the government’s plans to delay indoor hospitality reopening until five weeks after non-essential retail opens for trade. Lord has now been joined by Hugh Osmond, founder of Punch Taverns, in the legal fight.

Steve Woolland, Performance Coach and Director of Coaching & Training at wctd ltd, led an online session for members of The Leaders Council looking at how to influence in a virtual world. As the world of work has changed and the majority of networking, engaging with clients and leading teams is now conducted online attendees were given a chance to assess how they can still influence across a physical divide.

Business Declares and Wholegrain Digital have collaborated to release an open-source toolkit to help organisations identify, measure and reduce their digital carbon footprint. Technology has an ever-increasing role to play in everyone’s daily lives and with that comes increasing environmental impact from data storage and processing to the manufacture and disposal of physical products.

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden revealed that the UK will publish a report on Artificial Intelligence as the government looks to position the UK as global centre for the development, commercialisation and adoption of responsible AI.

Axiom, a division of The Creative Engagement Group, has been shortlisted for an accolade in the Covid Comms category at the 2021 PM Society Awards.

Amid fear that newly devised technology initiatives may not harmonise with the Lloyd’s vision of a digital ecosystem, Insurance Day has published an article calling for clarity on Blueprint Two technology standards.

One of the founding principles of the police in this country is that ‘the police are the public [and] the public are the police.’ Even during this year of unprecedented restrictions on our liberties, the laws which the police have had to enforce have had popular support. But is that beginning to change? And if so, will the police no longer be the public?

In todays, Digital, Culture, Media & Sport round-up we take a look at what the government have announced over the past week. Including the launch of a new campaign to help tackle misinformation around Covid-19 vaccinations, a nationwide action plan to help protect journalist & the worlds first online safety expo.

Leaders Council chairman Lord Blunkett is one of six former home secretaries who have jointly written and signed a letter in The Times calling for an independent inquiry into Operation Midland.

In this week’s green round-up, we look at what the government is doing to help the UK economy bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic while looking ahead to a green future. Launching new innovation challenges, providing funding for green projects & continuing to put the COP26 at the heart of the governments messaging for the year are all positive steps to a greener future.

The UK and US governments have this week agreed on a new joint approach to resolve their 16-year trade dispute over aerospace tariffs, in a move which is set to hand a major boost to businesses in both nations.

mGage is a company that, along with its American parent company, Vivial Inc., helps to enhance relationships between brands and their customers via mobile channels. The company have recently partnered with Oxfam GB to launch a new payment solution.

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

Total QSR commercial director Sarah Herridge will feature in Cotswold Life Magazine’s March 2020 issue as part of its International Women’s Day coverage.