City jobs exodus to the Continent is more a ripple than a wave
Doomsday forecasts are yet to materialise with only a tiny proportion of jobs in the UK’s finance sector moved due to Brexit
4 April 2021 • 5:00am
MPs were warned by HSBC’s former chairman Douglas Flint in 2017 that Brexit could trigger a “Jenga tower” of job losses, referring to the game where a whole tower of wooden blocks can topple down just by pulling just one piece out.
Xavier Rolet, then chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, told ministers he believed some 232,000 financial services roles were at risk.
Children love outdoor learning centres, but many are being forced to close
The traditional residential trip to experience climbing, camping and canoeing may never return without government action, warn experts
Adventures: A residential trip is a treasured part of school
Credit: Craig Stennett
When my eldest son finished primary school last year, without any of the usual final year six rituals of leaving parties, last assemblies or signing of shirts, thanks to Covid, I asked him what he had enjoyed and would remember most about his years at primary school. “Easy,” he said. “Our residential trip to Marle Hall.”
It was exactly the same for me when I was at primary school and I, along with around 60,000 other school children from Warwickshire, also enjoyed a week of climbing, orienteering and sharing bunk beds with my best friends at the marvellous Marle Hall, which first opened as a Centre for Outdoor Learning, 50 years ago.