Scott Challinor

Prime minister Boris Johnson will next week encourage people to go back to their workplaces as part of a wider government campaign, the Telegraph reports.

Since reopening in mid-August following the Covid-19 lockdown, one hospitality business, Portsmouth’s Becketts Southsea, has enjoyed a bumper summer of bookings fuelled by UK staycations and been buoyed further by 15 consecutive five-star reviews on Tripadvisor. However, the success has not stopped since, with the Becketts Southsea hotel business having now been recognised with a 2020 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice award.

Recalling the watershed moment that he first decided to take the plunge from being in employment to starting his own business, Fuse Innovation managing director Marcelo Bustamante described the change as going from one side of a desk to the other.

Sir Ed Davey has been voted in as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, after seeing off competition from fellow MP Layla Moran.

Secondary school pupils in areas affected by local lockdowns in England will be expected to wear masks after the government reversed its guidelines on Tuesday night.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens. This week, managing partner Greg Ward discusses the findings from the 21st wave of the Covid-19 tracker survey with the Leaders Council, published on August 19 and sourced from data collected on August 14.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has directly appealed to parents of school-age children, informing them that it is “vitally important” that pupils return to school as soon as possible.

While the city of Portsmouth has enjoyed increased tourist footfall with Covid-19 travel restrictions prompting many British holidaymakers to opt for a UK staycation over travelling abroad, one of the city’s recently reopened hospitality businesses, Becketts Southsea, is drawing much attention.

The Financial Times reports that the Crossrail board has called for an additional £450 million in investment with the east-to-west Elizabeth Line now unlikely to be open until the middle of 2022.

Nielsen has revealed that it will undergo an integration with independent out-of-home media specialist Talon Outdoor, to enhance marketers' targeting of online and offline out-of-home advertising campaigns.

UK tourists returning from Portugal have been boosted by the news that they will no longer need to adhere to the Covid-19 quarantine law, but travellers returning from Croatia will now have to self-isolate after a sharp rise in cases there.

UK firm Atruchecks has entered a new partnership with international laboratory group Eurofins Scientific to help provide an accredited Covid-19 PCR test express service, capable of delivering results within 24 hours.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens. This week, managing partner Greg Ward discusses the findings from the twentieth wave of the Covid-19 tracker survey with the Leaders Council, published on August 12 and sourced from data collected on August 7.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has defended his cabinet colleague Gavin Williamson, with the education secretary under pressure to quit following widespread criticism of the way A-Level and GCSE exam results were handled this year.

Healthcare product manufacturer Direct Healthcare Solutions is one of many firms across Britain and indeed the wider world that has felt the impact of Covid-19 on its day-to-day operations. Speaking on the Leaders Council podcast, managing director James Puttick explains the importance of strong and collaborative leadership through times of crisis, while health secretary Matt Hancock has made the move of dispensing with Public Health England in favour of a new agency, amid fierce criticism of PHE’s response to the outbreak.