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The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (BISC) has published a report highlighting areas of the Government's apprenticeships programme that need reform and called for more to be done to promote apprenticeship schemes as a credible career...
It is easy to have respect for somebody who has faced Lord Justice Leveson and come out the other side with their reputation intact. However, it is something else entirely to be called to the Leveson Inquiry with less than a week’s notice, only to find...
So last week, following a concerted effort by many publicans, industry personnel and beer lovers to generate a near religious movement on sites such as Twitter that saw an e-petition receive over 100’000 digital signatures, MPs finally had a debate about...
Community Pubs Minister Brandon Lewis called in at the Norton in Cold Norton, Essex, last week. He shared a celebratory pint with residents who have successfully saved the pub from closure by establishing it as an entirely community-run pub.
So that’s it then. All that work, all those signatures collected and MPs emailed and written to, for a three-hour debate in the House of Commons. Was all the blood, sweat and tears worth the effort?
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