WANdisco has announced a partnership with Snowflake, the data cloud company, to automate, accelerate and simplify the migration of on-premises Hadoop analytics workloads to Snowflake’s data platform.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock – or a 10-tonne pallet of toilet roll for that matter – Covid-19 will now be a household term. With the world avidly awaiting daily updates, many of us have been struck by inertia, not wanting to move for fear of being sneezed, coughed or spluttered upon by potential germ carriers. The idea of self-isolation is beginning to sound as appealing as a five-star beach break in the Maldives.

Getech, which is a provider of data, knowledge and software products to the energy industry, has completed a conditional placing and subscription to raise approximately £6.0 million to support diversified growth in areas “important to the delivery of a global energy transition”.

The livestock were grazing in a field in the Nether Haugh area of Rotherham, when a sandy-coloured Staffordshire Bull Terrier ran into the field chasing them for around 15 minutes.

It marked the first case of Foot and Mouth Disease to be discovered in Yorkshire. The affected farm was in the heart of Wensleydale and it will not claim any fame – it was the tip of an iceberg as significant as any that have caused nautical accidents.

That old saying “they don’t make ’em like they used to” is particularly apt for the marvellous mid-century self-build that is Bracken Hill. It is tucked away in a cul-de-sac in the sought-after Cragg Wood area of Rawdon, Leeds, and the care and thought that has gone into every aspect of the property is obvious.

As with so many chefs at the moment, Wendy Rowley has been forced to look beyond the normal method of serving food and delve into the home delivery market. She is currently creating dishes for Little Weighton Kitchen (LWK), which offers recipe meals to cook at home, designed and prepared in the kitchen of the Black Horse pub, where Wendy is head chef. Or, at least, she was when pubs were still open.

The group plummeted to the mammoth loss last year from underlying pre-tax profits of £583 million in 2019 as the coronavirus crisis hammered the global aviation industry.

Apprenticeship Levy is paid by large businesses and as part of that proposal, Asda has opted to transfer a portion of its annual funds to pay for apprentices to train in small businesses within local communities, giving people the opportunity to develop new skills. The scheme will also enable small businesses to develop talent that they may otherwise not be able to afford.

“The focus is always on the day I stepped on the IED but in many ways the struggles were after that,” explains Giles Duley, a photographer who lost both his legs and his left arm in 2011 as a result of a landmine in Afghanistan while out on an assignment with the US military.