WholisticResearch Acquires the Domain MyBrainTrainer.com

The nootropics site WholisticResearch just announced they bought the domain MyBrainTrainer.com, which was previously a virtual mental gym for brain exercises.

EASTBOURNE, England, Dec. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MyBrainTrainer.com is a domain that has been around for at least 15 years but has fallen out of use. With the acquisition of the domain MyBrainTrainer.com, WholisticResearch announces it will now sell nootropics and brain health supplements. The difference is that MyBrainTrainer wasn't a nootropics website but a website with information on brain health and exercise.

WholisticResearch, on the other hand, focuses on providing guides for

CodeHand: a Worldwide Initiative to Teach Computer Science

CodeHand

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, December 28, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Computer Science and technology are central to our rapidly changing world. It is imperative that today’s youth gain the necessary Computer Science skills to succeed and open doors to real opportunities in the future job market.

However, many of today’s youth are unable to achieve these Computer Science skills as they have limited access to learning resources.

Meet CodeHand.org.

CodeHand is a worldwide non-profit social enterprise based in London, UK, which seeks to provide free high-quality Computer Science education to underprivileged

Royal Rabbits Club's VIP Whitelist Now Open

LONDON, Dec. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Royal Rabbits Club, an Ethereum-based NFT collection platform, has announced the opening of its long-anticipated VIP whitelist. A collection of 7,777 unique non-fungible tokens [NFTs], including a set of 20 legendary Monarch Rabbits, Royal Rabbits Club is offering everyone an opportunity to become a member of a growing community of people who believe, firmly, in the immense potential of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

Each Rabbit NFT is ultra-rare, unique, and based on hundreds of well-crafted

International collaborations to develop technologies of tomorrow

Leading UK researchers will work with international collaborators to develop the technologies of tomorrow through 12 projects announced today.

They include:

• ultracold molecule quantum computing
• advanced emission sensors
• cyber-secure electric vehicles.

Collaborators range from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US to Australia’s University of Sydney, Japan’s Riken and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Germany.

Addressing technology challenges

Among the technology challenges they aim to address are:

Monitoring Earth’s emissions and climate

Researchers at the University of Exeter will work with partners including

Mental health over the festive season

Support available for those who may be struggling.

Mental wellbeing support is available over the festive period for anyone who may be struggling during this time.

Those experiencing low mood, stress, anxiety or depression are being urged to seek help and not wait until after the festive season is past.

Mental Wellbeing Minister Kevin Stewart said:

“It is vital we all look after ourselves, and each other, at this time of year. Not

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special wins Christmas Day ratings in 2021

BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing was the most watched show on Christmas Day with 5.8 million viewers (excluding The Queen’s Christmas broadcast).

Nothing brings the country together at Christmas quite like the BBC, there was something for everyone with the seven most popular programmes across the day that caps off a brilliant year on the BBC celebrating British creativity where we have delivered hits and award winning work and seen huge audiences come to our shows.

— Charlotte Moore, BBC Chief Content Officer

The BBC’s Christmas Day line-up proved a winning formula once again,

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The Language of Love sees a group of Brits and a group of Spaniards pairing up at a dreamy Spanish country estate to see if they can find romance… despite not speaking each other’s language.

Set in a stunning finca in Andalusia, host Davina McCall is joined by

Uptake of COVID-19 vaccine doses soars in week before Christmas

Uptake of COVID-19 first doses increased by around 46% and second doses by 39% in England in the week ending 21 December.

From:

Department of Health and Social Care and The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP

• Public reminded the offer of a vaccine will always be available and urged to come forward to protect themselves and their loved ones
• Largest increase among people aged under 30 in England
• All eligible reminded to Get Boosted Now to protect against Omicron

Thousands more first and second doses were administered last week compared with the week before, as the public are today reminded that the offer of a vaccine is still available and encouraged to come forward to protect themselves against Omicron.

221,564 first doses were administered in the week of 15 to 21 December in

Get Boosted Now text message to go out from Boxing Day

As part of the national Get Boosted Now campaign to protect against Omicron, a text will be sent out from Boxing Day reminding people to get jabbed

From:

Department of Health and Social Care, Cabinet Office, and The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP

• Every adult needs a COVID-19 booster vaccine to protect against Omicron
• In partnership with UK phone networks, the UK Government will send out SMS texts on Boxing Day urging people to get a booster
• The SMS texts are part of the Get Boosted Now campaign and the latest push in a record-breaking week for daily vaccinations

From Boxing Day (26 December) people in the UK will receive a text message reminding them to get a booster vaccine to protect us all from the spread of the Omicron.

More than 32 million people - over 60% of adults in the UK - have now had their COVID-19 booster.

The expansion of the booster programme continues at a rapid pace, with

Strictly's all-star Christmas special - Fred Sirieix and Dianne Buswell

Fred and Dianne talk spray tans, make up and flying turkeys as they prepare to take to the Strictly ballroom floor at Christmas

I’ve been practising this one dance for three weeks, it isn’t perfect, but it’s as good as it can be. I’m not a dancer, my level of dancing is standing on tables as Christmas parties with my top off!

— Fred Sirieix

Hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the festive foursome on the judging panel are, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke, and head judge Shirley Ballas.

Taking to the dancefloor this year is Adrian Chiles with his professional

Sky Studios announces development deal with Dorothy St Pictures

The London-based film and television production company will co-produce a slate of documentary projects with Sky Studios

Sky Studios, Sky’s original programming arm across Europe, today announced a development deal with Dorothy St Pictures, the female-led home for filmmakers, both new and established, to tell authentic, original and distinctive stories.

Announced today as part of the Televisual Factual Festival, the partnership will see the award-winning Dorothy St Pictures team, which includes founder Julia Nottingham (Be Water, Kingdom of Us) and Director and Producer Becky Read (Twas the Fight Before Christmas, Three Identical Strangers), co-produce an exclusive slate of high-end series and feature documentaries with strong theatrical qualities across a range of topics, often told from the female gaze.

The projects are expected to target Sky’s factual channels across Europe

CHANNEL 5 JOINS DIGITAL UK

Monday, 20 December 2021: Channel 5 will today join Digital UK Ltd, alongside BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The four public service broadcasters have entered into a new Digital UK members’ agreement, marking the first time that the venture has been wholly owned by all four PSBs.    

Earlier this year Digital UK merged with Freesat (UK) Ltd to bring the two free-to-view TV organisations together, with the aim of ensuring that viewers continue to have access to a range of free-to-view TV services in the UK, while also benefitting from technological innovations and developments across the two platforms.     

Channel 5 – which is owned by ViacomCBS Inc. – joins Digital UK with

The world's first healthcare metaverse from DeHealth

ALTRINCHAM, England, Dec. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A British non-profit organization, DeHealth, is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. The company announced the start of the creation of a Decentralized Metaverse, which will take millions of doctors and patients to a new world where they can work, interact with each other in full 3D format and earn virtual assets by selling their anonymized medical data.

The HLT (health) token will become the main mean of settlement within

Northwest Biotherapeutics Announces MHRA Approval Of License for GMP Manufacturing At Sawston, UK Facility

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTCQB: NWBO) ("NW Bio"), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, today announced that approval has been received from the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of a license for manufacture of GMP (clinical grade) cell therapy products at its Sawston, UK facility.

The MHRA license approval enables the manufacturing of DCVax-L products to

Nothing can replace the scale or scope of the UN mandated Syrian cross-border mechanism

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council briefing on Syria

From:

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE

Location:

New York

Delivered on:

20 December 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)

Thank UN Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing. We very much welcome your efforts over the past month to facilitate a political solution, including a recent visit to Damascus to seek to unblock progress on the Constitutional Committee.

For years, the Security Council, on behalf of the wider membership of the UN, has demanded implementation of the steps in resolution 2254. Yet not only has the regime failed to engage genuinely in the process, but the issues that gave rise to and sustained the conflict continue – atrocities, human rights abuses, disregard for the rule of law and widespread corruption and economic mismanagement.

Until there is genuine willingness to engage in the Syrian-led and owned process endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 2254, there is no prospect of a sustainable solution which should remain the priority for us all. I’d like to thank too Martin

HE Governor Nigel Dakin Christmas Message 2021

His Excellency Governor’s Christmas message to all the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands and further afield.

From:

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Nigel Dakin CMG

Delivered on:

20 December 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)

H.E. NIGEL DAKIN CMG, CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, 2021

Merry Christmas Turks and Caicos.

For the first time in a year our children, Charlie and Fraser, have joined us in TCI, so we are together for a family Christmas. As we gather to celebrate the season, and the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, our first and most important message, from our family to yours, is to wish you a joyful and peaceful Christmas. We hope the New Year - and 2022 - are kind to both you and yours.

Much happened in 2021. The Islands entered the year uncertain about what

Muriel Gray appointed as British Broadcasting Corporation Board Member for Scotland

Muriel Gray has been appointed to the Board of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

From:

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Muriel Gray has been appointed to the Board of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as the Scotland Nation Member for a term of four years from 3rd January 2022 to 2nd January 2026. Under the terms of the BBC Royal Charter, appointment of the BBC Chair and Nation Board Members is made by HM The Queen, on recommendation from Ministers.

Muriel Gray graduated from Glasgow School of Art, working first as an illustrator and then as assistant head of design at the National Museum of antiquities in Edinburgh. Presenting Channel 4’s live seminal music programme The Tube led to a long career in broadcasting, and to the joint founding of a television production company that grew into one of the leading UK independents.

Her writing career began with the best-selling horror novel The Trickster,

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority gifts two social centres to community group

 Two West Cumbrian social centres have been gifted to a local community group by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

From:

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

L-R: David Peattie, Mike Starkey, Alice Thompson of SASRA, Gemma Bloor and Geoff Turrell, of SASRA , and Trudy Harrison.

The Falcon Club, at Egremont, and the Windscale Club, at Seascale, were owned by NDA Properties Ltd, a subsidiary of the NDA.

Run by Sellafield Area Sports and Recreational Association (SASRA), which has rented the properties since 1948, the clubs were handed over from the NDA to SASRA as a goodwill gesture to the community.

The legal process of transferring the ownership of the properties has

G7 Foreign Ministers issue joint statement on Hong Kong elections

The UK along with its G7 partners issued a statement following the Hong Kong legislative council elections.

From:

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP

In a joint statement, the G7 said:

We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, noting the outcome of the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong which took place on 19 December 2021, express our grave concern over the erosion of democratic elements of the Special Administrative Region’s electoral system.

The package of changes to the electoral system introduced earlier this year in Hong Kong, including reduction of the number of directly elected seats and establishment of a new vetting process to severely restrict the choice of candidates on the ballot paper, undermined Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy under the “One Country, Two Systems” principle.

We strongly reiterate our call on China to act in accordance with the Sino-British Joint Declaration and its other legal obligations and respect fundamental rights and freedoms in Hong Kong, as provided for in the Basic Law. We also call on China and the Hong Kong authorities to restore confidence in Hong Kong’s political institutions and end the unwarranted oppression of those who promote democratic values and the defense of rights and freedoms.

Government Analysis Function opportunities

Vacancies, expressions of interest and other opportunities for government analysts

From:

Government Analysis Function

Broaden your career horizons

Across the Government Analysis Function there are many opportunities to help broaden your career horizons. This could be building your network of peers through volunteering, participating in a function activity or developing your skills and career by applying for a loan or secondment.

The Analysis Function (AF) is committed to creating an inclusive analytical community where all our members have the chance to thrive, with access to a breadth of career and development opportunities. This page is updated to bring you the latest

Boost for high streets and businesses as markets and outdoor marquees allowed permanently

Measures originally introduced during the pandemic will now be made permanent following public consultation.

From:

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and The Rt Hon Christopher Pincher MP

• Local hospitality businesses no longer need planning permission to put up marquees on their land and councils will no longer need planning permission to hold an outdoor market
• Measures originally introduced during the pandemic will now be made permanent following public consultation
• This will draw more people to high streets and town centres and boost local businesses

High streets and local business are set to benefit from changes to planning rules, which mean markets can be held more often and marquees put up in pub and restaurant gardens without the need for planning permission, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced today (20 December 2021).

The changes to permitted development rights, first introduced last year as

Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group launches new Action Plan

Industry group set-up to improve inclusion and diversity in the insolvency profession launches its Action Plan for 2022.

From:

The Insolvency Service

The Insolvency Service and R3 Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group has published its Action Plan for 2022.

The Action Plan commits the Steering Group to focus efforts in 2022 into four key areas:

• entry into the profession
• progression to associate level, and to partner level
• taking insolvency qualifications, and
• becoming a licence-holder.

The four priority areas aim to help the Steering Group meaningfully boost

Restored floodplain habitat helps rare/endangered species thrive

New life will be breathed into rare, lost floodplain habitats near Grantham.

From:

Environment Agency

The floodbank when it was in place. Photo credit: The Wild Trout Trust

The Environment Agency has worked with the Wild Trout Trust to remove a former mill flood bank at Manthorpe. The bank has been removed to create a new environment for wildlife such as otters, wetland birds, white clawed crayfish and water voles.

As well as removing the bank, the floodplain was lowered and ponds created. An area for native wildflowers will be sown next spring.

Lowland floodplain habitats have become rare in the UK in recent years. The land has largely been used for agriculture particularly during the Second World War when they were needed for food production. The restoration of these rare habitats can bring

PM call with First Minister Paul Givan and Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill: 17 December 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to First Minister Paul Givan and Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill.

From:

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP

The Prime Minister has spoken to First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland this afternoon to discuss the ongoing response to the Omicron variant.

They agreed on the vital importance of the vaccine rollout and acceleration of the booster campaign.

They also discussed shared challenges including the economic disruption caused by Covid and will continue to work together.

The Prime Minister confirmed UK Government will be convening a COBR meeting over the weekend with counterparts from the devolved administrations to continue discussions.”

Icarus advances armoured vehicle protection

Armoured vehicles could benefit from increased protection against current and future threats under research being conducted by Dstl.

From:

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Delivered in collaboration through an industrial partnership led by Leonardo, the Icarus Technology Demonstrator Programme has developed and proven the Modular Integrated Protection System (MIPS) architecture.

This is designed to enable the flexible teaming of a range of technologies to create a suite of Active Protection Systems (APS). APS combine both sensors to detect and counter-measures to disrupt threats and forms a protective electronic ‘bubble’ around the vehicle.

The MIPS architecture enables the development of best of breed APS capabilities with a view to harmonising modular hardware and software components that

Foreign Secretary issues joint statement with international partners on Hong Kong elections: 20 December 2021

The UK along with the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued a statement following the Hong Kong legislative council elections.

From:

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

We, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State, noting the outcome of the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong, express our grave concern over the erosion of democratic elements of the Special Administrative Region’s electoral system. Actions that undermine Hong Kong’s rights, freedoms and high degree of autonomy are threatening our shared wish to see Hong Kong succeed.

Since handover, candidates with diverse political views have contested elections in Hong Kong. Yesterday’s election has reversed this trend. The overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system introduced earlier this year reduced the number of directly elected

The Secretary of State has appointed Barbara Woroncow as a Trustee of the Royal Armouries

Barbara Woroncow has been appointed by the Secretary of State as Trustee of the Royal Armouries for a four year term from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2025.

From:

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Barbara’s professional career was spent in the museum sector following a degree in Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge University. Starting as a curator of ethnographic collections in local authority museums, she moved into advisory work and was Chief Executive for 16 years of the Yorkshire Museums Council, a strategic regional development body funded by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.

Barbara is a past elected President of the UK Museums Association and was awarded an OBE in 2000 for services to museums. She has served on the boards of the International Council of Museums for the UK and for Europe. After taking early retirement, she spent five years undertaking international consultancy and development work for

How to protect yourself and others: guidance for door supervisors

Guidance produced by the SIA on good practice that can help door supervisors protect the public and keep themselves safe.

From:

Security Industry Authority

We appreciate what a difficult job you do, dealing with members of the public in challenging circumstances and often placing yourselves in harm’s way.

We want to highlight some of the guidance we have produced on good practice to help you continue to protect the public and keep yourself safe.

Protecting yourself and others

The private security industry plays an important role in the protection of the public.

We suggest that you read our advice for security operatives. This includes:

• Guide to safer physical intervention for door supervisors
• Safer physical intervention for door supervisor’s poster
• A guide to safer restraint

You can also read:

UK government seeks views on new oil and gas climate checkpoint

The UK government launches a consultation on the design of a new climate compatibility checkpoint for the oil and gas industry.

From:

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Oil and Gas Authority, Lord Offord of Garvel, and The Rt Hon Greg Hands MP

• Government launches consultation on design of new oil and gas climate compatibility checkpoint
• the checkpoint will apply to any future oil and gas licences to ensure they are aligned with government’s climate change commitments
• new measure will support the UK’s oil and gas sector in the transition to net zero

The UK government has today (20 December) launched a consultation on the design of a new climate compatibility checkpoint for the oil and gas industry.

Read and respond to the consultation

This follows a commitment earlier this year to introduce the checkpoint as part

Shipment of Intermediate Level Waste from the UK to Australia

Preparations are underway for a return of vitrified Intermediate Level Waste to Australia.

From:

Sellafield Ltd

As previously announced, Sellafield Ltd and Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) are planning to return Intermediate Level Waste in the form of vitrified residue to Australia.

Preparations to transport a single TN81 flask containing vitrified residue are now underway, with arrival expected during the first half of 2022.

The shipment will be carried out in full compliance with all UK, Australian and international regulations, and subject to issue of all relevant permits and licences.

In line with normal procedures, Sellafield Ltd and NTS will provide further information on the shipment in due course.

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