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No update on VAT cut or business rates holiday extension until March

12 January 2021 by

The industry is to wait for the chancellor's budget in March for further financial support and news on whether the current VAT cut and business rates holiday will be extended.

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January grants of up to £25,000 announced for Scottish hospitality

12 January 2021 by

January top-up grants of up to £25,000 will be available to hospitality businesses across Scotland closed by level 4 restrictions, finance secretary Kate Forbes has announced.

Takeaway alcohol banned as England comes under lockdown until mid-February News

Takeaway alcohol banned as England comes under lockdown until mid-February

04 January 2021 by

Takeaway alcohol will be banned in England until the latest lockdown ends in mid-February, although alcohol[...]

Scotland to enter lockdown from midnight tonight News

Scotland to enter lockdown from midnight tonight

04 January 2021 by

Mainland Scotland will enter a lockdown similar to that of March last year from midnight tonight[...]

Northern Ireland to enter six-week lockdown from Boxing Day News

Northern Ireland to enter six-week lockdown from Boxing Day

18 December 2020 by

Northern Ireland hospitality venues will have to close from one minute past midnight on 26 December[...]

Changing restrictions are a lot to take in... or out, says Chantelle Nicholson In-Depth

Changing restrictions are a lot to take in... or out, says Chantelle Nicholson

15 December 2020 by

Offering takeaway solves the lockdown conundrum, but it presents its own problems too, says Chantelle Nicholson.

Ways to help you look after your mental health this Christmas Advice

Ways to help you look after your mental health this Christmas

11 December 2020

Christmas and New Year can be hard enough on the nerves without Covid-19 and its uncertainties. Whether you have existing mental health issues or are starting to feel more anxious or depressed, we have compiled a list of organisations that[...]

Northern Ireland: Restaurants to reopen but wet-led pubs to remain closed News

Northern Ireland: Restaurants to reopen but wet-led pubs to remain closed

07 December 2020

Following Northern Ireland’s two-week circuit breaker lockdown, restaurants and hotels will reopen from 11 December.

Businesses in Birmingham and Manchester to remain closed as areas to enter Tier 3 News

Businesses in Birmingham and Manchester to remain closed as areas to enter Tier 3

26 November 2020 by

Hospitality businesses in areas including Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol, Nottingham, Leicester and Lancashire will have to[...]

Fuller’s chair says the country needs hospitality fully open – and soon News

Fuller’s chair says the country needs hospitality fully open – and soon

26 November 2020 by

Fuller’s chairman Michael Turner has said the country needs its hospitality businesses fully open again “for[...]

Hospitality excluded from nationwide Christmas plans News

Hospitality excluded from nationwide Christmas plans

25 November 2020 by

Travel and household mixing restrictions will be eased over Christmas, but restrictions on hospitality will remain[...]

Curfew replaced with 10pm last orders but tighter tier restrictions set for hospitality this winter News

Curfew replaced with 10pm last orders but tighter tier restrictions set for hospitality this winter

23 November 2020 by

Boris Johnson has confirmed that the curfew will be replaced with a 10pm ‘last orders’ and[...]

‘Too late’ for hospitality businesses in Northern Ireland to reopen this weekend News

‘Too late’ for hospitality businesses in Northern Ireland to reopen this weekend

11 November 2020

Even if the Executive decides to lift restrictions on hospitality in Northern Ireland on 13 November, it is now too late for many businesses to reopen this weekend, said Hospitality Ulster.

Automatic takeaway permissions set to be extended to 2022 News

Automatic takeaway permissions set to be extended to 2022

09 November 2020

Restaurants, pubs and cafés will get automatic freedoms to provide takeaway services for another year until 23 March 2022, communities secretary Robert Jenrick is set to announce this week.   

Jacobs Media is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise.

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