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Sir Ed Davey has been voted in as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, after seeing off competition from fellow MP Layla Moran.

Businessman and inventor Thomas Edison once said the greatest weakness of humans lies in giving up and that the “most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”. It is the same idea of motivation and determination in one’s work that underpins the mentality of Ross Kennedy and QHi Group Ltd, the business he founded back in 1989.

It is often said that one learns more about themselves, their colleagues, and their business in times of adversity than when things are going smoothly. It is a view that is also shared by Melba Fisher, chairman and managing director of exclusive business club and network Business for Breakfast, who believes that leadership is often ignored when things are going well and then called into question in more testing times.

When lockdown restrictions were announced in March 2020, WillisPalmer and its CEO, Mark Willis, raised alarm bells that a lengthy lockdown period could not be justified as it could cause more societal, health and wellbeing issues than the coronavirus itself. However, now approaching September, many children in England have experienced six months with no education, little routine, scarce social interaction and for the vulnerable children in society, a worse fate of witnessing domestic abuse, being neglected, experiencing emotional, physical or sexual abuse and not knowing where the next hot meal is coming from. In this article, Willis outlines the severity of the problem and presents WillisPalmer’s Children’s Charter, set up to ensure that all children impacted negatively during lockdown have access to help and support as soon as possible to address the problems and thrive.

Secondary school pupils in areas affected by local lockdowns in England will be expected to wear masks after the government reversed its guidelines on Tuesday night.

Wrexham-based Paul Bristow Associates are producing thousands of masks per week for major organisations and companies in the UK.

As has been the case for businesses all over the UK, Ye Olde Salutation Inn, a public house in Nottingham dating back to 1240 which lays claim to being the oldest in the city, has had to navigate the storm of the Covid-19 pandemic and chart its own course through troubled waters. Speaking on the Leaders Council podcast, director Jason Weston reflects on the business’ journey through the pandemic thus far, while prime minister Boris Johnson hinted at a future u-turn on guidelines over mask-wearing in England’s schools. Elsewhere, Ofqual chief Sally Collier has tendered her resignation following the exams controversy.

CGTech has announced the latest interation of their VERICUT software, version 9.1.

London based online market research agency FlyResearch has been issuing weekly polls to its research panel of over 3000 people throughout the coronavirus lockdown in the UK, in order to project how the outbreak and the implementing of social distancing has been impacting the daily life of UK citizens. This week, managing partner Greg Ward discusses the findings from the 21st wave of the Covid-19 tracker survey with the Leaders Council, published on August 19 and sourced from data collected on August 14.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has directly appealed to parents of school-age children, informing them that it is “vitally important” that pupils return to school as soon as possible.

Cheshire-based Brio Leisure have introduced a one-way system to make social distancing easier for their more than 79,000 leisure cardholders and members. They have also offered some much needed advice and encouragement for all those who might need it as they try and get their fitness goals back on track.

As news reaches us of emergency ‘doomsday’ planning in Whitehall, APB Group's managing director Andy Graham has stressed the value of reinvention and adaptability

In the hectic world of running a UK SME, executives must take on several challenges. Some of these challenges one faces as a team, supported by a collective unit, and others are faced on a more individual basis. Writing for the Leaders Council, Medical Engineering Techologies [MET] boss Mark Turner discusses one of the major individual challenges one of his colleagues is facing in aid of charitable causes.

While the city of Portsmouth has enjoyed increased tourist footfall with Covid-19 travel restrictions prompting many British holidaymakers to opt for a UK staycation over travelling abroad, one of the city’s recently reopened hospitality businesses, Becketts Southsea, is drawing much attention.