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Welcome to Yorkshire Y21 conference – Channel 4 director Sinead Rocks says more London-based staff are wanting to move to Yorkshire since the pandemic

Sinead Rocks, who joined Channel Four from the BBC in 2019 and has moved to the region herself with her partner and baby, told Welcome to Yorkshire’s annual conference that employees were ‘reassessing’ their work-life balance since the pandemic began and are now more open transferring their roles to the broadcaster’s Leeds office, which opened last year.

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Why the payment holiday from mortgage provides no break – Gareth Shaw

Gareth says…The pandemic prompted the Government, regulators and banks to take unprecedented action to support people financially. One of the most important of these measures was the offer of a mortgage payment holiday, allowing borrowers to pause their repayments for a set period if they couldn’t afford to make them. This was in addition to a moratorium on house repossessions and a whole host of other support measures.