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In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, specialist medical insurance provider General & Medical have set up a dedicated Hospital Liaison Team to connect private health insurance members to the best hospital groups. The service is aiming to give extra reassurance during these unprecedented times by providing their customers with faster assistance in locating consultants and medical services, like diagnostics, treatment and procedures.

The release of one of the summer’s most anticipated films, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, has been pushed back to 31 July as a result of the global pandemic. The $200 million film was, according to the New York Times, intended to “jump-start the pandemic-stricken movie business.”

When Alan Bennett first performed his Talking Heads monologue, he forgot his lines three times. Accordingly, the writer lost any and all desire to perform, and maintaining his position behind the camera, where he is able to write instead.

More than half a million workers in the UK have lost their jobs during the past 13 weeks of lockdown, the ONS has revealed.

Stephen Dobinson is a director at Arc Building Consultancy, an independent firm of chartered Building Surveyors based in the Midlands. In conversation with the Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland's Scott Challinor, Dobinson lifts the lid on how his business has met the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic while offering further insight into the leadership behind the firm.

Andy Preston makes his new business venture seem positively vampiric in character. At the February launch of what has been formally referred to as a “stunning digital skyscraper” he said, “we are going to suck some of your business out of your cities to us.”

One would hardly expect former president Barack Obama to have links with Guildford’s Watts Gallery. Yet the former was inspired by the collection of the latter to enter politics, and ultimately to take up the most powerful office in the world.

Shops in England have reopened for the first time since the 23 March lockdown and have been met with significant queues from members of the public.

For the more conventional among us, Valentine’s day brings embarrassingly large bouquets, overpriced meals for two, and strangely shaped chocolates. For Oliver Dowden, it brought a new position in the cabinet – culture secretary for the country of Shakespeare and Byron, Harry Styles and Gilbert and George.

Following the recent anti-racism protests which have sent shockwaves across the world, one of the founder's of All-In Diversity, a project launched with the purpose of creating the tools for the global industry to progress in terms of diversity, inclusion and workplace equality, has put together an in-depth essay discussing the issue of prejudice.

When Emilie Gordenker took over the Van Gogh museum in February, she did not expect her tenure to begin with months of closure. Yet it is only now that the museum welcomes it first visitors, almost three months since lockdown began.

It seems that Eliseo Gil took the phrase “fake it until you make it” a little too literally, as it has been revealed the archaeologist forged almost ten per cent of his finds.

Having been removed from the board of the Whitney last year due to his involvement in the sale of tear gas, Warren Kanders has announced that Safariland will sell off their crowd-control products divisions.

In any given year, Chatsworth house would welcome some 600,000 visitors through its doors. Now, due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the house is empty aside from the Devonshires who are isolating there.