- MoD: Injured soldier speaks about importance of Covenant support – (New reservists inspected by Chief of Defence Staff at their Passing Out parade in Grantham ~ South Coast jobs boost with £420m defence contract ~ More than £300m invested at RAF Marham to help prepare for the arrival of the UK's first F-35B Lightning II)
- ScotGov: Highlands & Islands Air Discount Scheme extended – (ScotGov: An additional £2m is to be invested in the Scottish Ambulance Service ~ Festive Aberdeen given a £25,000 funding boost by VisitScotland ~ Granite City green heat revolution ~ Tendering for Clyde and Hebrides ferry contract underway - £1bn of funding to support the enhancement & development of lifeline services ~ Weekly A&E stats to be published from 3 March ~ New bowel cancer home screening test simplifies the sample collection process ~ New entrants are vital to farming industry ~ More than 3m people have visited Scotland’s science centres in the last 5 years – ScotGov commits £2.75m for the coming year)
- WAG: St David Awards finalists announced by First Minister – (Restoration Man revisits the transformation of Pencader’s Hen Ysgol into eco centre ~ Wales leading Europe with service provision for lymphoedema sufferers ~ £1.5m to transform former colliery in Merthyr Tydfil ~ Campaign providing benefits for Wales’ Armed Forces Community has exceeded all its targets in less than 10 weeks ~ How investment from WAG’s Intermediate Care Fund has helped older people in the Bridgend area to maintain their independence)
- WO: Ministers visit historic No 4 School of Technical Training at MoD St Athan and the Wales rugby team at the Vale Resort)
- CLG: Mnisters confirm call-in of proposed Lodge Hill housing & commercial site – (Housebuilding continues to climb)
- STFC: Now that brown diamonds can be heat-treated to remove the darker colour to produce near-perfect colourless gemstones, can consumers tell the difference? – (Lighting up a new path for novel synthetic Polio vaccine ~ Super-resolution microscope puts health & plant science in good STED ~ STFC: UK takes next step in dealing with major Space Weather events ~ Dust to dust: a disintegrating rocky exoplanet could unlock secrets to how our solar system was formed ~ World-leading SuperSTEM microscope that can see single atoms is unveiled)
- Wage stagnation has increased the deficit by at least £33bn, says TUC
- TfL: Organisations across the Capital are joining forces to prepare for falling temperatures – (#helpie your commuter pals ~ Journey times lowest on record as LU improvements accelerate ~ Backstreet biking to bring safer, more convenient journeys - a new 11km Cycle Superhighway between Tottenham, Stoke Newington, Dalston and the City of London)
- DfT: Take-up of plug-in car grant continues to rise
- EH: Love Story Formed In A WW1 Convalescent Home That Would Last The Wrest Of Their Lives
- Innovate UK: Stratified medicine: the right treatment at the right time
- EHRC: New National Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic Hate Crime Partnership
- Ofcom: Telephone number '105' proposed for new electricity helpline for people suffering an electricity power cut ~ Ofcom awards three new Midlands community radio licences ~ Ofcom: Consultation on impact of new mobile coverage obligation on licence fees)
- Ofsted: Barking & Dagenham schools moving in the right direction – (Ofsted: More than 2,500 children in Blackpool get inadequate education)
- NA: Winners of First World War short film competition announced
- DH: Healthcare worker with potential exposure to Ebola transported to UK for precautionary monitoring
- ACE: Rosie Kay’s powerful 5 SOLDIERS production to tour England – (Get Creative – be a part of it!; a celebration of the arts, the culture and the creativity that flourishes up and down this country)
- Environment Agency winning the war on destructive invasive fish
- LGA: New construction strategy will support SME firms to deliver local economic growth according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) – (LGA: Councils respond to school places funding announcement ~ LGA : Social care funding must be protected like the NHS in the next Budget ~ LGA response to the independent Commission on local government finance)
- Met Office & Asian Development Bank address climate resilience – (#BackClimateAction Instagram competition)
- Ofgem: Introducing our new publications libraries – (Ofgem’s response to the CMA’s updated Issues Statement for the Energy Market)
- UNICEF: More brutal & intense conflicts leave children increasingly at risk of recruitment and use by armed groups ~ UNICEF: Schools in Liberia to re-open following return of more than one million students in Guinea)
- ICO: A cookie can last 7,984 years, according to new international privacy study
- FDA welcomes proposal for an inquiry into recent National Library of Wales Employment Tribunal ~ Was this a case of ‘unjustified action’ to cover up ‘managerial failures’?
- BIS: 8 weeks to go until mums & dads with babies due on or after 5 April 2015 can start sharing up to 50 weeks of parental leave
- CESG: GCHQ launches Cyber Insiders Summer School
- Monitor: Tariff arrangements for 2015/16 activity – (Monitor puts Norfolk & Suffolk into special measures)
- CQC inspectors publish reports on another 72 GP practices – (CQC: Chief Inspector of Hospitals publishes his findings on the BMI Mount Alvernia Hospital, Guildford)
- DfT: New East Anglia franchise competition begins
- CBI chief warns against dangers of devolution by deadline
- Don't kid around with Chinese Lanters during the Year of the goat festivities, says RoSPA
- HMT: Registration opens for new Marriage Allowance for married couples & those in civil partnerships
- HEFCE: Police Knowledge £10 Fund opens for bids
- Electoral Commission: Political parties’ latest donations & borrowing figures published
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