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The latest models produced by racing-sportscar manufacturer Radical Sportscars will arrive in New Zealand before the end of August, with Auckland-based firm GB Motorsports announced as Radical’s first dealer in the country.

Rainham Industrial Services was recently awarded a gold medal award in the 2020 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents [RoSPA] awards.

Nielsen has revealed that it will undergo an integration with independent out-of-home media specialist Talon Outdoor, to enhance marketers' targeting of online and offline out-of-home advertising campaigns.

Beauty Kitchen UK Ltd has been shortlisted in two categories in Natural Health Magazine’s annual Natural Health International Beauty Awards.

The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said that a post-Brexit trade deal between the bloc and the UK “seems unlikely” following the latest round of talks.

New Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has said that he will not shy away from challenging Boris Johnson if he believes that the PM is not acting in the best interests of Scotland.

UK tourists returning from Portugal have been boosted by the news that they will no longer need to adhere to the Covid-19 quarantine law, but travellers returning from Croatia will now have to self-isolate after a sharp rise in cases there.

Although the world is now beyond acquainted with Covid-19, “unprecedented” remains a buzzword in describing the nature of the pandemic. Indeed, it is a challenge that Raqia Bibi, one of the chiefs of RB Care Homes, had not anticipated or planned for throughout her 20-year career in healthcare.

UK firm Atruchecks has entered a new partnership with international laboratory group Eurofins Scientific to help provide an accredited Covid-19 PCR test express service, capable of delivering results within 24 hours.

During the early onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it may have seemed easy for business leaders to become embroiled in panic and inertia in the wake of such tremendous uncertainty. Of course, maintaining a cool head during any testing time is one of the cornerstones of effective leadership, but for one managing director, establishing a new structure early on and adapting quickly to new circumstances proved equally important.

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 twentieth wave of the Covid-19 tracker survey with the Leaders Council, published on August 12 and sourced from data collected on August 7.

Health secretary Matt Hancock has defended his cabinet colleague Gavin Williamson, with the education secretary under pressure to quit following widespread criticism of the way A-Level and GCSE exam results were handled this year.

Healthcare product manufacturer Direct Healthcare Solutions is one of many firms across Britain and indeed the wider world that has felt the impact of Covid-19 on its day-to-day operations. Speaking on the Leaders Council podcast, managing director James Puttick explains the importance of strong and collaborative leadership through times of crisis, while health secretary Matt Hancock has made the move of dispensing with Public Health England in favour of a new agency, amid fierce criticism of PHE’s response to the outbreak.

Water companies have been in calls for households to stop using sprinklers and hosepipes as dry weather throughout the spring and August coupled with the UK lockdown has seen UK water usage soar.