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Home Secretary, Priti Patel has written to Sir Richard Henrique, the former High Court Judge, who was asked to conduct an independent review into Operation Midland. Lord Blunkett, Chairman of The Leaders Council, joined with five other previous Home Secretaries to urge Ms Patel to open an inquiry into the operation.

Following the publication of the government’s roadmap out of Covid-19 restrictions, award-winning antique retailer and craft store, Antiques on High, is preparing to resume operations on April 12, 2021.

Barking Enterprise Centre is hosting a two-hour online Business Enterprise Workshop from 10:00am to 12:00pm GMT on March 25, where aspiring entrepreneurs and those considering becoming self-employed can network and seek specialist advice.

March 15, 2021 marked a key milestone for Mercanta, as the coffee supplier celebrated its 25th anniversary in business.

Dr Pauline Stephen has become The General Teaching Council for Scotland’s first female Chief Executive and Registrar, since it was set up in 1965 as the professional body to register and regulate the teaching profession in Scotland.

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.