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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.

The government has agreed a conditional funding and financing package for Transport for London [TfL] worth around £1.08 billion to continue to help it navigate the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people, to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing and other restrictions has impacted the daily life of UK citizens.

The UK has recently extended membership of the UN Convention on Women's Rights to the crown dependency of Jersey, granting its approximately 50,000 women extended human rights protections.

Six UK space sector operators have secured a share of over £2 million of government funds to help develop the UK’s satellite navigation and timing network.

An 11-day strike beginning on May 14 at the Hovis bakery plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finally ended this week after staff agreed to a new salary offer.

DPAA, the global trade marketing association which connects out-of-home [OOH] media with the wider advertising community, announced in May that Talon America CEO, Jim Wilson, will join its board of directors.