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The ICO has launched a GDPR awareness campaign aimed at people running micro-businesses – those employing fewer than 10 people.

Innovate UK to take 15 entrepreneurs to Sydney & Melbourne to support collaboration and break into the global advanced urban services market as part of an Innovate UK future cities mission.

Biomedical engineers are pioneering a new technique for treating injured limbs which could reduce amputations after battlefield injuries and natural disasters.

The technique has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) through the Defence & Security Accelerator.

Created in response to the experiences of Iraq & Afghanistan, where improvised explosive devices caused traumatic injury, the three-stage approach is a brand-new technique that brings together kit that can be used in the field, with highly specialised solutions once the patient is evacuated to a hospital.

A disparity between how the public view cyber crime and the reality of the threat is putting individuals & businesses at increasing risk, according to the Government’s Cyber Aware campaign.

Its new report A Call To Action: The Cyber Aware Perception Gap identifies the 3 key myths preventing people adopting behaviours that could protect them in an increasingly digitised & connected world: that cyber crime isn’t ‘real crime’; that it ‘won’t happen to me’; and that there’s ‘nothing I can do about it’.

Cyber Aware is calling on businesses of all sizes to take the lead by educating staff, clients and customers about the very real risks of cyber crime and what can be done to help prevent it.

100’s of Baiga people from the area that inspired Kipling’s The Jungle Book are opposing the authorities’ attempts to evict them from the forests that they have lived in & managed since time immemorial.

The Baiga are particularly worried by the two upcoming evictions, as both state authorities and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) promised that evictions would not take place in the “corridor” areas, which run between the protected nature reserves.

PM Theresa May has met with the devolved administrations to discuss the latest in the EU negotiations.

The FMs of Scotland and Wales, along with representatives from the Northern Ireland Civil Service, came to Downing Street for an update on the negotiations and to discuss recent progress on Clause 11 of the EU Withdrawal Bill, which would see the vast majority of returning devolved powers directly transferred to Edinburgh, Cardiff & Belfast.  Domestic issues and the importance of Northern Ireland’s continued involvement in the process, in the absence of an Executive, were also be discussed.

The PM made clear her absolute commitment to devolution, strengthening the Union and delivering legal certainty for businesses & consumers across the UK as ‘we forge a new, deep & special partnership with the EU’.

Finance Secretary Derek Mackay;  “It is imperative that the UK Government urgently provides details of how it plans to mitigate the significant impacts of leaving the EU, and how the £3bn funding for EU exit preparations which was announced at last year’s Autumn Budget will be allocated.  Scotland must have its fair share of this funding.  …….

A Post-Brexit deal with the UK, must include a proposal to require a level playing field on workers’ rights, says TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady.

Meanwhile the EC has presented its proposal for a European Labour Authority as well as an initiative to ensure access to social protection for all workers & self-employed.