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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to go into space in July as one of the passengers on his spaceflight company Blue Origin’s first ever crewed flight out of Earth’s atmosphere.

Proposals for a revamp of England’s electoral map in 2023 have today been revealed, which The Boundary Commission for England says will make Parliament fairer by giving each MP a roughly equal pool of voters.

The prime minister’s official spokesman has indicated that the government still sees no reason to delay the final stage of reopening the economy on June 21 despite a rise in Covid cases, as health secretary Matt Hancock addressed Parliament on Monday.

The government has introduced new measures requiring businesses to commit to net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050 and produce carbon reduction plans before being allowed to bid for major government contracts.

Becketts Southsea general manager Terence Carvalho has been nominated in the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' category at The News Business Excellence Awards 2021.

The UK government has this week announced a new trade deal in principle with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, which is set to boost major British industries including digital.

Earlier this week, award-winning theatrical show producer and live entertainment booking agency, Talent Artistic Group [TAG Live], was named ‘2021 Winner’ of the ‘Most Innovative Theatrical Entertainment Company - UK’ award by Global 100.

Sir John Bell, a leading member of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine team, has called on the government to hold its nerve and stick to lifting remaining social restrictions on June 21, rather than delaying reopening the economy further because of the threat of new variants.

Writing in the Financial Times, the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance discusses the aim to make vaccines and therapeutics available at scale within 100 days and warns that the world should be planning for pandemic threats in the future.

The Data & Marketing Association’s [DMA] latest research has highlighted the increased importance of email marketing during the Covid-19 pandemic, with bigger budgets and increasing Return on Investment [ROI] in the last year - alongside shifts in marketing objectives and new challenges.

One of Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s younger Child Ambassadors, Frankie Bowen, became the first to raise the new Children’s Charity Embassy flag at its inauguration ceremony at Southport Pleasureland on June 1, 2021.

Film Ahoy, the online indie film streaming platform launched by UK Producer Dean Fisher [Bow Street Media], is delighted to announce a new working relationship with Gary Collins, CEO of Red Rock Entertainment.

After the UN unveiled its latest climate goals in the Agenda 2030, telecoms specialist Telavox has reviewed its own practices to gauge how it can operate a more sustainable business.

In an article for The Telegraph and other newspapers in the G7 nations, the heads of the WHO, IMF, World Bank Group & WTO have urged richer countries to divert Covid vaccines to poorer nations to combat the risk of new and emerging variants.