Cyber firm's commercial advisor named Marine of the Year, to absolutely everyone's surprise (including his)
Dane Clackworthy has never, by his own admission, been to sea. He has now been crowned Marine of the Year.
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Peers back cross-party push to modernise Whitehall procurement
The Lords committee's report calls for shorter tender windows, a single supplier portal and clearer rules on framework contracts. Whitehall said it would “study the recommendations in detail”.
The woman who tells Britain's boardrooms their training is rubbish just got an MBE
Amy Stokes-Waters, founder of The Cyber Escape Room Co., is appointed MBE for services to cyber security. Her method is walking into a room full of executives and telling them, plainly, that their security training is a waste of everyone's afternoon.
Firm's smooth-running operations credited to manager's degree in cat herding
Danielle Ford, operations manager at The Cyber Escape Room Co., holds a formal qualification in cat herding, a discipline most people assume is a figure of speech. Colleagues say it explains everything.
Man who owned a polo pony as a child insists he is 'just a normal bloke'
Michael Sage, chief technology officer at The Cyber Escape Room Co., would like it on record that he is not, and has never been, posh. His childhood polo pony could not be reached for comment.
Dame Sonia Vestral returns to the West End after eight years away
The Olivier winner will play the title role in a new revival at the Trafalgar this autumn. “The theatre keeps you honest,” she said. “Film lets you off far too easily.”
Chelsea gold to an unlikely community garden from Sheffield
A garden built from recycled tools, salvaged railway sleepers and 400 volunteer hours took a category the entrants said they never expected to win.
MPs demand emergency hearing over banking 'chaos'
The Treasury Select Committee will sit on Thursday morning.
'No way to pay': the Croydon families left stranded at the till
When cards stopped working nationwide, the abstraction of forty million pounds became very real.