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Speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, UK prime minister Boris Johnson has talked up new British investments which will help deliver the transition to green energy across Africa.

Ministers are planning to bring legislation to Parliament which would allow employers to use agency staff to cover shortfalls left by striking staff members.

Polling stations have opened to voters in the Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield constituencies, as by-elections in both areas begin.

Marketing agency Delivered Social has received a Bronze Award of the Armed Forces Covenant, after having become the first UK digital marketing agency to sign the pledge.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended the government’s decision to reintroduce the triple lock on pensions, saying that the elderly are among “the most vulnerable in society” and needed to be provided for.

Writing in the Daily Mail, Leaders Council chair, life peer and former Labour cabinet minister, Lord Blunkett, shares his view that this week’s historic strikes by railway staff will leave other workers, who rely on trains to commute, among the worst affected.

The government’s plans to introduce a new Bill of Rights would enable UK ministers to ignore rulings made by the European Court of Human Rights [ECHR].

The Office for National Statistics [ONS] has said that UK inflation hit 9.1 per cent in the 12 months to May 2022, up from the nine per cent registered in the year to April.

Medical Engineering Technologies [MET] has been acquired by contract testing laboratory firm, Wickham Micro.

GQA Qualifications, the awarding and qualifications-writing organisation, is lending its support to a progressive and life-changing initiative for young people called 'Nobody Left Behind'.

Forresters has been named by the Financial Times as one of the leading patent firms in Europe.

The RMT union has said that the planned major railway strikes will go ahead after late talks addressing pay, job security and working conditions fail to yield a breakthrough.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street following a minor surgical procedure at a London hospital, Downing Street has confirmed.

CW+ recently welcomed actor Chris Evans to the CW+ MediCinema, based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.