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Last modified on Sat 1 May 2021 08.32 EDT The hospitality industry is facing a staffing crisis as restaurants and pubs say that up to a quarter of those employed before the Covid-19 pandemic will not return. The UK’s largest listed pub group, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), has lost 9,000 of its 39,000 staff since last year; D&D, the owner of more than 40 upmarket restaurants including Le Pont de la Tour and Coq d’Argent, is looking for up to 400 recruits out of a total 1,300 UK workforce;...

‘I spoke to Helen McCrory nearly every day, but even I didn’t know she had cancer’ John Vincent, chief executive of Leon, reflects on Helen McCrory, with whom he ran #FeedNHS in the year before she died 18 April 2021 • 9:29pm Helen McCrory passed away after a battle with cancer Credit: Andrew Crowley /Telegraph  In the last year, Helen McCrory became a close colleague as we worked alongside her, her husband, Damian Lewis, and actor Matt Lucas on the #FeedNHS campaign. At the height o...

ESSAY The Steading was a house in which Tim Stead pioneered the use of locally sourced hardwoods rather than imported timber IT was in November 2020 that Nichola Fletcher decided it was all over. After five years of trying to raise money to save for the nation the remarkable home of craftsman and sculptor Tim Stead, the last funding application had been rejected. She and her colleagues on the Tim Stead Trust had reached the end of the line. Stead, who died in 2000 aged just 48, occupies a u...