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Defence Secretary announces £120m investment in UK air power – (MoD: Royal Navy & Royal Marines train alongside partner naval forces ~ MoD: UK extends training of Ukrainian Armed Forces ~ MoD launches Defence People Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy ~ DPMH&W strategy ~ Defence Secretary reveals name of first Type 26 as manufacture begins)
DfT: Main civil engineering works contracts for Stage 1 of HS2 Phase One
Defra: Lord Gardiner visits the Carnaby Street pollinator paradise
DCMS: Better deal for consumers in the digital age, including Mandatory age verification to view online pornography, a crackdown on ticket bots, and new subtitling requirements for video on demand services
ScotGov: Aberdeen harbour expansion – (ScotGov: Road works consultation gets underway
WAG announce extra rolling stock to improve rail services
OSSW: HMRC’s Welsh language customer services team to remain in Porthmadog
LGA: Cold water shock dangers need including in swimming & classroom lessons, say councils – (LGA Unveils Housing Advisers Programme ~ LGA: Response to family & childcare trust survey on holiday childcare costs ~ LGA responds to Which? report on product safety & recall system ~ LGA calls for ‘urgent & immediate’ building regulation review)
Citizens Advice and LGA launch council tax collection protocol to improve council tax collection
Food Standards Agency: Food allergic consumers more confident about eating out
Fines issued by Electoral Commission for breaches of spending return rules – (Record electorate at 2017 UK general election, but further modernisation of the registration system urgently needed)
Ofcom: Helping people to shop around and secure the right deal
Ofgem statement on consumer summit for vulnerable customers – (Ofgem: British Gas pays £1.1m to compensate customers after agents missed appointments)
Action Fraud: Why these fake WhatsApp emails and texts will catch people out
STFC: Recipe for success – the next steps for MIRI
ESRC: Dehyping robotics – (The environment is central to achieving the UN Global Goals, the first joint Rockefeller Foundation-NERC-ESRC report finds ~ ESRC: Pre-call announcement: UK-India AMR Initiative ~ ESRC: UK Research & Innovation launches interim website ~ ESRC: 2-year extension of What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth ~ ESRC: Dementia prevention: researchers identify 9 health & lifestyle factors)
HEFCE to run pilots of Teaching Excellence Framework assessments at subject level
National Archives: See Jane Austen’s original will – (NA: Newly Accredited Archive Services ~ NA: Files released - FCO and Cabinet Office)
ACE: London's National Portfolio 2018-22 – (ACE: 2018-22 National Portfolio - great art & culture in the East and South East ~ ACE: New reports demonstrate libraries’ impact on communities)
NCFE: Making room for additional subjects in school – (NCFE: Strength against all odds ~ NCFE: One fifth or 20%? Off-the-job training for apprentices ~ NCFE: Keeping it brief)
Met Office: Do cows really lie down when it’s about to rain?
TfL makes it easier to top up Oyster cards while on the go – (TfL: Three decades of DLR)
FDA: Senior Civil Service pay review will only succeed if ministers ditch 1% cap, says FDA
TUC: Banning prison officers from striking will not fix the crisis in our prisons – (TUC says the financial sector isn’t delivering for working people ~ TUC: Pension age hike risks creating second-class citizens ~ TUC hits out at increase of apprentices paid below the minimum wage)
RoSPA welcomes new falls prevention resource pack
Unicef: Children increasingly targeted in Central African Republic violence – (Unicef: Statement on Dubs Unaccompanied Children Transfer Scheme)
WWF: Survey reveals rise in support for climate action in Wales)
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