Film & TV Productions’ Demand For Low Prices, Fast Turnaround On Covid Testing Lures New Entrants

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Health chiefs are on target to have Renfrewshire’s most vulnerable vaccinated against Covid-19 by this weekend.Figures, released by Public Health Scotland, show that nearly all over 80s have been jabbed across the region, with the final handful on schedule to be completed.They add to the 1,000 care home residents given the first dose of either the Pfizer or Oxford AstraZenica vaccine in December and

Robert B. “Bob” Steuer, a film production and distribution executive for more than 50 years, died Friday, Feb. 5 at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Calif. He was 86 and died from dementia complications.  

direct to your inbox All travellers arriving in the UK will have to take two coronavirus tests in a fresh attempt to prevent mutant strains entering the country under new rules to be announced this week.

direct to your inboxMore than ten thousand people in Moss Side and neighbouring communities are to be offered immediate Covid-19 tests after a new variant of the virus was identified in the area.From tomorrow Manchester council will be inviting all over-16s living, working or studying within a specific footprint - including most of Moss Side and small parts of Whalley Range, Hulme and Fallowfield - for tests, after four cases of a new strain were identified in two unrelated households.Dedicated

David Dodds, executive councillor for education, added: “As the Scottish Government has said, the exceptional arrangements to close schools from January were put in place as a precautionary measure in light of the latest developments at the time.“A range of previously published evidence has made clear that schools are not high-risk environments when the appropriate mitigations and safety measures outlined in the guidance are implemented, particularly within the younger year groups.“There is to

Loyd Grossman has urged others to take advantage of “this huge breakthrough in the fight against Covid-19” after having his first dose of vaccination. The 70-year-old broadcaster and author, known widely for his range of cooking sauces, was given the Oxford/AstraZeneca injection at North Cotswold Hospital, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire on Saturday morning.

Spend on film and high-end TV production in the U.K. fell just 21 percent in 2020 compared with 2019, according to official figures released by the British Film Institute.

Jamie Lang As the Brazilian audiovisual sector prepares to return to shooting movies and shows after being halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, new health and safety guidelines are being implemented to prevent further spread of the disease and to protect those involved in production.To ease the burden on already hard-hit producers, Show Me The Fund, a joint venture between Brazil’s film promotion program Cinema do Brasil and Olga Rabinovich’s philanthropic support initiative Projeto Paradiso, has

EXCLUSIVE: Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart has made a new attorney hire. Charmaine Bingwa (Black Box) is joining the cast of CBS All Access/Paramount+’s drama The Good Fight as a series regular in the upcoming fifth season.

direct to your inboxFrontline staff at Stockport council are being offered rapid Covid tests as part of a targeted approach to bringing infection rates down.The lateral flow tests - which deliver a result in 30 minutes - will also be available to ‘partner organisations’ such as voluntary sector groups working with the public.Invitations will be sent to staff who are unable to work solely from home, especially those who have face-to-face contact with the over 70s.Around one in three people

direct to your inboxTwo mums from Stockport have launched a campaign to help nurses flown in from overseas to treat Covid patients. Jennifer Partakis, 45, and Kirsten Wheeler, 47, a nurse practitioner, are raising funds for care packages for 12 nurses at Stepping Hill Hospital.

Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kidsPlans for daily Covid tests in schools have been halted amid concerns over the new variant.The idea was that pupils who were identified as close contacts of a positive case would be tested daily for seven days, as an alternative to them having to self-isolate.Unveiled as a 'milestone moment' when it was unveiled by ministers, it was billed as a critical move in fighting the

Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway has announced that she has written a book detailing the tough year she has experienced after her husband Derek Draper contracted coronavirus in March 2020.MORE: Kate Garraway looks incredible in her starry dress in this smiling new snapThe star's book is titled The Power of Hope and will be released in April, 13 months after Derek was admitted to hospital."While my experience of Covid is extreme and extraordinary, I'm only too aware that this virus has