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  The Com pany announces today that its 2020 Annual Report and Accounts and notice of Annual General Meeting ("Notice of AGM") for the Companys 2021 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") are now available to view on the Companys website at www.justgroupplc.co.uk , following the release of its preliminary results for the financial year ended 31 December 2020 on 16 March 2021.   Printed copies of the 2020 Annual Report and Accounts, together with the...

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THE GOVERNMENT is to be congratulated on it’s programme of vaccinating the population of this country against Covid-19.

© Simon Watson The couple wrangle over the guest list, usually 35-strong for a dinner party, with an eclectic mix of generation-spanning guests. Regulars include Debonnaire von Bismarck and her sons, the model and actress Farida Khelfa, designers Emilia Wickstead and Mary Katrantzou, the journalist Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, and close family. “I like funny people, people who have a bit of distance on life,” says Sabine. But the part she really loves is the dressing up. “I love ev...

The Case of the Serial Sperm Donor One man, hundreds of children and a burning question: Why? Credit...Keith Negley In 2015, Vanessa van Ewijk, a carpenter in the Netherlands, decided that she wanted to have a child. She was 34 and single, and so, like many women, she sought out a sperm donor. She considered conceiving through a fertility clinic, but the cost was prohibitive for her. Instead, she found an ideal candidate through a website called Desire for a Child, one of a growing number of on...

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Special-purpose acquisition companies — aka "blank-check" companies — are having a moment on Wall Street. The investment vehicles raised more than $80 billion in 2020, more than five-times last years total of $14 billion. SPACs have recently attracted bold-faced names such as hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman,...

CIFS Facilitates Regiment Training Police/Court Members of the Cayman Islands Regiment (CIR) received a full day of firefighting training from the Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) on Saturday, 5 December. Over 50 CIR officers were trained on the use of fire extinguishers and breathing apparatus, search and rescue capabilities, hose running and motor vehicle accident extrication. “When working together as part of a major incident response it is essential to have a shared understanding of ea...

Ridley Scott inspires Network Rail’s cave-exploring drone By Chris Baraniuk image captionA drone as seen in the movie Prometheus When Hollywood director Ridley Scott filmed astronauts looking for aliens in his 2012 movie Prometheus, little did he know that it would one day inspire a Network Rail drone project. But, bizarrely, thats exactly what has happened. Network Rail, which owns and maintains most of the railway infrastructure in Britain - from vast stretches of track to thousands of brid...