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2023 Spring Statement brings 'enhanced' tax incentives to tech SMBs

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the government plans to introduce tax incentives for UK-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as part of a broader set of plans to boost the UK's technology sector. Delivering the government's 2023 Spring Statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday, Hunt said the incentives…

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Keep scientists in the research room and out of politics

The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn’t chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete

The Guardian - UK

Simon Case’s WhatsApps with Hancock unprofessional, say ex-civil servants

Whitehall chief called travellers being confined to Covid hotels ‘hilarious’, according to leak of chats with former health secretary

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Leaked WhatsApps reveal government struggle over Covid ‘sex ban’ advice

The chief medical officer suggested couples were not likely to remain apart during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, according to leaked messages

The Independent UK

Sir Chris Whitty called for ‘realism’ around Covid sex ban, leaked Whatsapps show

The chief medical officer suggested couples were not likely to remain apart during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown

Evening Standard

Whitty called for ‘realism’ around Covid advice which kept couples apart

The chief medical officer suggested couples were not likely to remain apart during the first weeks of the 2020 lockdown, according to leaked messages.

The Independent UK

Did Boris Johnson ‘follow the science’ on Covid? He couldn’t even do the maths

Leaked WhatsApps reveal his ignorance needing constant correction by advisers, says Kit Yates, director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath

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Devastated Covid families say Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages 'twist knife' in wounds

Bereaved relatives have told of their fury after Matt Hancock's bombshell texts on testing were leaked. Matt Forest, whose mum died of Covid, said the former Health Secretary 'betrayed' his mother

Daily Mirror

Dame Angela McLean to be UK’s first female chief scientific adviser

Professor of mathematical biology to succeed Sir Patrick Vallance after advising MoD and working with Sage during pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Dame Angela McLean appointed as new Government chief scientific adviser

She will be the first woman to hold the role.

The Independent UK

Panel rules new disease may have caused sea creature deaths on North East beaches

The official report details how dredging and pyridine were very unlikely to have caused the tragic die-off.

Chronicle Live

No definite answer to cause of mass crab deaths on north-east coast as experts give their verdict

It had been claimed that work to expand a port in the area had triggered the deaths

Wales Online

Chris Whitty warns UK faces 'prolonged period' of excess deaths due to lockdown effects

Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance have published a report of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, saying if they did not act the way they did "the outcomes would have been significantly worse"

Daily Mirror

Sir Patrick Vallance issues warning over net-zero goal

The UK’s chief scientific adviser gave the warning at the Lister Memorial Lecture in Edinburgh.

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Why does This England let Boris Johnson off so lightly?

No Partygate, no dodgy party donors and no sex pests. If only the Covid wards had been as well sanitised as Michael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of Boris Johnson’s pandemic government, writes Sean O’Grady

The Guardian - UK

The threat of Covid isn’t over – so why does Britain have a conspiracy of silence about it?

Our government is pretending that the pandemic is ‘done’, ignoring both protective measures now and preparations for the future, says science writer Philip Ball

The Independent UK

Sir Patrick Vallance to stand down as chief scientific adviser

Boris Johnson says it is ‘impossible to fully convey’ scientist’s impact

The National (Scotland)

Sir Patrick Vallance to step down as UK's chief scientific adviser

SIR Patrick Vallance, who played a crucial government role during the coronavirus pandemic, is to stand down as the UK's chief scientific adviser.

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The Independent UK

Key Covid expert Sir Patrick Vallance to stand down as chief scientific adviser

Boris Johnson said it was ‘impossible to fully convey’ the scientist’s impact.

The Guardian - UK

Heatwave? No, it’s a national emergency, disrupting lives and threatening our health

The idea of climate change as a distant problem won’t survive the next stifling week

The Guardian - UK

Sir Patrick Vallance gives emergency climate briefing to UK MPs

Chief scientific adviser showed similar slides to those Boris Johnson said gave him ‘road to Damascus moment’ on climate

The Guardian - UK

Small minority of UK parliamentarians attend emergency climate briefing

Just 70 MPs and peers saw Sir Patrick Vallance showcase data that converted Boris Johnson to climate cause before Cop26

The Guardian - UK

Improved disease control in public buildings ‘could save UK billions a year’

Measures such as improved ventilation would boost economy by helping prevent ill health, says report

Wales Online

'Partygate' rule-breaking in Westminster 'disappointing' says top government scientist

The public got to know Sir Patrick Vallance well as he co-hosted Covid-19 briefings from No 10

The Independent UK

‘Disappointing’ No 10 didn’t stick to Covid rules, Patrick Vallance says

Covid rules worked best ‘when people stuck to them’, says the government’s chief scientific adviser

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