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One hundred and thirty days ago today, Vincent van Gogh, one of the Netherland’s most renowned painters, died. Experts believe that they have found the location of his final work thanks to a postcard and a pandemic.

The CEO of Heathrow has criticised the government’s current quarantine model, instead advocating for airport testing to avoid falling off the “cliff edge”.

Lisa Davies told the Leaders Council that it is time for government-backed business to be looked at in a new light. Meanwhile, Heathrow boss John Holland-Kaye has urged the government to rethink their current quarantine rules.

The British Veterinary Association [BVA] has issued new advice to pet owners after the virus responsible for Covid-19 was detected in a pet cat in England.

The Louvre Hotels Group has selected NSF International to provide an external independent review of its Covid-19 safety protocols through the "Checked by NSF™" programme.

Over the past two decades, Nathalie Bondil and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts have become synonymous. Indeed, in early July, the minister of culture and communications for the province of Quebec noted “the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is Nathalie Bondil!”

The prime minister of Spain has called the imposed 14-day quarantine on all those returning to the UK from Spain “unjust”.

Since legally being allowed to do so on 4th July, restaurants across the country have been gradually re-opening across the country in a climate unlike anything any of them have ever known before. It is therefore crucial for the sector to know that firms like Total QSR are there to support them.

Author C.S. Lewis once said that hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny, and the testing times of the Covid-19 pandemic have seen that statement ring true in the fact that individuals have brought the best out in themselves in a time of adversity and business leaders are seeing the positives of learning from having to manage a crisis.

The demand for e-bikes has spiked since UK employees have been gradually phased back into normal working life with the easing of lockdown. Advantages are clear in that they enable people to avoid the use of cars and close contact of others on public transport, but looking to ascertain just how safe, affordable, and healthy e-bikes are, 50 Cycles’ Peter Walker conducted his own research into the matter, weighing up the pros and cons and revealing his findings in a blog on the company website.

Hardy Signs has now completed its full office signage re-brand project at Alexander Accountancy, which first began in February but was initially delayed due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

As businesses respond to the current crisis, the owner of independent corporate finance business, Pall Mall Capital, speaks with The Leaders Council regarding the pandemic and the best way to move forward. Meanwhile the prime minister has taken efforts to tackle the country’s obesity levels.

A Banksy triptych is almost a juxtaposition in terms – the former associated with popular culture, the latter more at home in the renaissance. Yet 2020, a year full of surprises, had one more up its sleeve – the infamous artist’s decision to auction of his work for a Bethlehem hospital.

A minister has said that the government had to act "rapidly and decisively" in order to impose a quarantine on those arriving into the UK from Spain.