Tim Coles News Today

SIR – I’m sure that, given a choice, everyone would prefer to eat the highest-quality food produced in Britain (report, March 27), but not everyone has the means. If the Government believes it’s safe to allow imports of food produced using methods that are banned in the UK, it should lift that ban. If it wants more wildflowers grown, it should use land that is not highly productive. Farmers are right to protest, but not because of trade deals and tariffs. The culprits are un...

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXIS Capital Holdings and Xenia Broking Group. A summary of these new hires follows

Island made famous by BBC series to be rewilded and turned into a survival retreat, say owners

His predecessor moves into a new CEO role

The island of Taransay is about to welcome a new generation of castaways, nearly 25 years after hosting the reality TV series

Brown & Brown Europe’s wholesale and specialty brokerage group, Bridge Specialty International, has agreed to acquire Singapore-based insurance broker

Brown & Brown snaps up Singapore broker led by former Marsh CEO

Brown & Brown Europe's wholesale and specialty brokerage group, Bridge Specialty International, announced it has agreed to acquire Acorn International

Transaction expected to be closed in Q1

SIR – Ignoring the fact – as successive governments have done for 20 years – that the Royal Navy is a third of the size this country needs it to be, one despairs of the predictability of the Ministry of Defence’s response to its shortage of manpower (“Navy has so few sailors ships must be scrapped”, report, January 5).