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Bereavement charities call for more funding to support grieving families who have lost loved ones in pandemic after Britain passed 100,000 Covid deaths milestone National Bereavement Alliance calls for mental health funds to support bereaved The charity says ‘sustainable funding’ would help services provide early support to meet bereaved people’s immediate health and welfare needs … Read more
Government ‘is funding EIGHT vaccine passport schemes with over £450,000’ despite ministers claiming they have ‘no plans’ to use them InnovateUK documents show £450,000 in grants for ‘vaccination passports’ Money given to eight firms for research into secure digital vaccine certificates The government sources have denied plans to set up a passport scheme 478,000 people … Read more
Pub group Wetherspoons has gone cap-in-hand to investors for the second time since the pandemic began as it attempts to keep its head above water. It is hoping to raise between £92.1million and £93.7million to see it through the rest of the year, by selling up to 8.4m shares. This would mean offloading them for … Read more
Demand for business loans during the pandemic lifts profits at peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 18 January 2021 Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle said its total income in the final six months of 2020 was up 26 per cent Demand … Read more
AI chipmaker Graphcore attracts funding to the tune of £165m as global investors back Bristol-based unicorn Bristol-based Graphcore was begun in 2016 by Simon Knowles and Nigel Toon Its latest funding round was led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pensions Plan Board Back in July, the business released its latest-generation AI chip, the GC2000 By Harry … Read more
Fishermen will receive ‘a major funding package’ to help them take advantage of Brexit, Michael Gove pledges Cabinet Office minister insisted new trade agreement was ‘best possible deal’ Fishing leaders have accused Boris Johnson of betrayal for the compromise Mr Gove said it gives the UK ‘control over who comes into our territorial waters’ By Daily … Read more
A couple whose four-day-old baby died due to failures at a scandal-hit maternity unit have launched a last-ditch appeal for IVF funding. Katie Anson, 38, and Matthew Hall, 32, are desperate to start a family, five years after their only son Kye was starved of oxygen during a difficult birth. An inquest subsequently found his … Read more
A culture minister today warned MPs that an alternative means of funding the BBC will ‘eventually’ have to be looked at. John Whittingdale told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that the licence fee model is guaranteed until 2027. The ‘justification that everybody benefits from paying it because everybody benefited from the BBC is … Read more
Some £600million will be pumped into 178 NHS trusts to bankroll the construction of new wards, update electrics and even replace lifts over the next three months. The Department of Health revealed the funding boost today, after rubber-stamping 1,800 projects for urgently needed upgrades in hospitals. The money – which will also see old wards … Read more
Fraudster, 29, who faked terminal cancer to con friends into funding £8,500 dream wedding faces jail Toni Standen from Liverpool, told friends she had developed cancer in her leg Her friends rallied round and raised £8,500 to help pay for her dream wedding But they reportedly became suspicious of her and later confronted over claims … Read more