Staff at hotels, pubs, museums and other businesses will welcome people inside from Monday. Hospitality will be able to reopen properly after pubs and restaurants were restricted to serving punters outside only. From May 17: - People will be able to meet indoors in groups of six, or two households. - Pubs and restaurants will be able to serve customers indoors, although they will be limited to table service. - Cinemas, museums, theatres and concert halls will be allowed to reopen although there will be capacity limits on large events. - The stay in the UK restriction will lift and people will be able to travel to green list countries, such as Portugal although they are still being advised not to go to destinations on the amber list.
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N.J. man, 73, pleads guilty to multi-million dollar bank fraud
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
A Warren County man pleaded guilty Wednesday to bank fraud for his part in a “three-phase” scheme to deceive a bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, authorities said.
Gary Ketchum, 73, of Hackettstown, pleaded guilty to conspiring to make false entries to defraud First State Bank and the FDIC, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said in a statement.
The multi-part scheme, which ran from 2009 to 2010, initially involved a fraudulent infusion of $7 million in cash into First State Bank, authorities previously said.
The next step was for the alleged team of fraudsters to arrange for loans against the cash, authorities said. The crew also lied to the bank and to the FDIC to cover up and sustain the fraud, authorities said.
Covid-19: Businesses left in the dark over support scheme
By Michael Sheils McNamee
image captionThe Localised Restriction Support Scheme is aimed at helping businesses with a physical location
Some businesses in Northern Ireland have been left in the dark waiting for pandemic support payments, a business representative body has said.
It is aimed at businesses forced to close or severely restrict operations because of government regulations to try to halt the spread of Covid-19.
The Department of Finance said it has paid £113m, to date, to more than 10,000 businesses under the scheme.
It began issuing top-up payments earlier this month to cover the six-week lockdown from 26 December.