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Food exports to the EU partially recovered in February after a dramatic fall in January following Brexit. HMRC figures show food and drink exports to the EU were down by 26% in February compared with the same month last year, falling from £980m in 2020 to £722m this year. While a significant fall, it remains an improvement on January’s trade. Fish and shellfish, one of the worst-hit sectors in January, was down by 25%, costing the industry more than £20m. It remains the worst hit agri-food sector across the first two months of the year, down 54%. Meat exports, meanwhile, fell 43% in Febr...

Written by Emily Morrow on April 5, 2021 What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air? I’m a lifelong lover of radio and always imagined myself putting together playlists and spinning tracks. In college (1969-73), I had a prime-time (i.e. 10 PM – 2 AM) “progressive music” show on WESU, 88.1 on your dial from Middletown CT, on which I played a lot of jazz, and was Program Director my senior year. Much as I loved radio, I realized there was no way I’d ever make a living at it. Fast-forward about 40 years; I had been on W...

We also continue to see the sad realities of Brexit for individual companies. The impact of the UK’s hard Brexit was highlighted when it was announced last Friday that fast-growing Morayshire artisan craft beer firm WooHa Brewing had fallen into administration. Joint administrator Iain Fraser, partner with FRP, said: “WooHa Brewing Company is a high-profile craft brewing business with a substantial and growing trade and consumer client base. The business had grown rapidly in recent years, was well financed, and had a clear strategy and positioning in a crowded market. The business h...

"Edvard Munch" Nick Anderson for Counterpoint Be An #ArtsHero and Counterpoint have partnered to create a series of political cartoons highlighting the value of the arts industry and the jeopardy it faces in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out them out in a gallery below. “In a movement forged at the intersection of art and politics, who better than political cartoonists to illuminate the plight of the arts and culture sector?,” says Be An #ArtsHero co-founders Carson Elrod, Jenny Grace Makholm, Brooke Ishibashi and Matthew-Lee Erlbach. ...

Ingredients supplier Ulrick & Short acquired by Novax Clean label ingredients firm Ulrick & Short has been acquired by Novax, the investment company of Stockholm, Sweden-based Axel Johnson Group, for an undisclosed sum. Ulrick & Short will continue to operate as a standalone business with founders Adrian Short and Andrew Ulrick staying on as minority shareholders. The existing management team will remain in place. Adrian Short, founder, director and shareholder of Ulrick & Short, said: “From the first meeting with the Novax team it was clear we had found an org...