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As a firm, Rradar’s services include providing legal and business support to all organisations, in the realms of employment, HR, health and safety, litigation, disputes, corporate, commercial, and other business-related law areas. Founded by Gary Gallen as a one-man start-up in 2012, he has grown the firm into an expanding company with over 100 employees, boasting bases in Hull, Leeds and Glasgow, and still looking to expand its presence.

The Guardian reports that the UK housing market is going through a post-Covid-19 lockdown bounce-back, but signs are there according to surveyors and estate agents that any recovery may be short-lived.

Copper Connexions, a Berkshire-based firm which has supported the power generation industry since 2008, has successfully completed its ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 annual audits.

Kevin Wilson and Charlotte Valeur had some inspiring words for fellow leaders, while Chris Grayling was denied the post of chairman of the intelligence committee

In another world, the Royal Academy would be holding its annual Summer Exhibition right now. Instead, it now hopes to open today, following an almost four-month closure, yet another cultural casualty of Covid-19.

Early data suggests that there were around 650,000 fewer people on payrolls in June 2020 than there were just three months earlier, despite the government’s job schemes. At the same time, job vacancies in April to June were the lowest since such records began in 2001.

Scarcity of water affects around ten per cent of the world’s population and has a disproportionate impact on inhabitants of developing countries. Even in the year 2020, people are left facing the daunting and demanding task of travelling long distances to collect water for their families, which often is unclean and has the potential to cause life threatening illnesses.

Barking Enterprise Centre has organised an online business forum aimed at helping entrepreneurs prepare for the challenges of the post-Covid-19 world.

Following yesterday’s news that face coverings are going to be compulsory in shops from Friday 24th, it now seems that this law may be extended to offices as well. Meanwhile, former chancellor Philip Hammond has landed a new role advising Saudi Arabia's finance minister.

Channel 4’s 37-year-old archive would pose a challenge for even the most avid television watcher. Its estimated 14,000 hours of footage would provide a conservative two years of viewing, if watched back to back.

Determined not to be fazed by the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, multi-faceted accountancy firm RfM Group has pressed ahead with plans to open a new Manchester office.

Wide availability of Covid-19 antibody testing was once billed as a key exit route from lockdown. The purpose of the antibody test is to determine whether an individual has previously contracted coronavirus and recovered, meaning that there is a possibility of immunity. Understanding the path that the virus has taken was, therefore, seen as a major part of getting the UK back to work.

Normally spending $420.9 million in under four hours would be considered a little reckless to say the least. For Christie’s, this is the future.

HMS Queen Elizabeth will be based in the Far East from early next year as part of Britain’s efforts to counter an ‘increasingly assertive China.’ The vessel, which costs £3.1 billion will work closely on its military exercises with the United States and Japan.