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This is a discretionary grant scheme, for businesses that are not eligible for the Restart Grant scheme. The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme covers the period from April 1, 2021. Businesses will need to reapply even if they have previously received an ARG. According to Government guidance, the grant is not a replacement for lost earnings or income – it is a grant to help with the fixed costs of the business. The awards are defined, one-off awards. The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme is split into two strands. Strand One requires some ‘in-person’ service to ...

Email Other long-standing issues continue to cause friction. Parades and marches—held mainly but not exclusively by Protestant groups—often have heavily sectarian undertones. The same is true of flags and emblems, displayed by all sides on lampposts and buildings. Moreover, Northern Ireland’s leaders have never developed a comprehensive approach to the legacy of past violence, as some other postconflict societies have. Efforts to prosecute those responsible for killings and to pursue other initiatives have been uneven, which analysts say has hindered reconciliation. These issues—parad...

Dressing windows on Oxford Street in London before shops reopen on April 12 Credit: Yui Mok/PA SIR – In Britain, 79 people out of the 20  million given the AstraZeneca vaccine developed thrombosis (in some cases, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis) – a rate of four in a million. By comparison, thrombosis can develop while taking the contraceptive pill at a rate of one to five women in 10,000 per year. Women who are pregnant or who have just given birth develop thromboses at a rate of one to two per 1,000. Out of a population of more than 21  million men and women between the ages of 20 an...