Tributes paid to Michel Bourdin former maître chef de cuisine of London’s Connaught hotel

Michel Bourdin, maître chef de cuisine of London’s Connaught hotel for more than 25 years and a founder of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, has died.

Actor and comedian Griff Rhys Jones is leading a campaign to oppose a planned £1.5b hotel and office redevelopment at London’s Liverpool Street Station.

Twenty-five Black-owned restaurant businesses across the UK have each received £10,000 from the Uber Eats Black Business Fund.

It is possible to employ staff under a skilled worker sponsor licence, if you have the funds to do so, say Robert Houchill and Eimear Sloan