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It makes for an amusing story, but it is, not surprisingly, completely untrue. The BBC had, in fact, already finished broadcasting the cartoon (Mickey’s Gala Premier in case you’re interested) when screens went blank. The first person to speak once transmission was resumed in 1946 was Jasmine Bligh standing outside Alexandra Palace.
After a hiatus of nearly six months, I also have no droll witticism with which to welcome you back. I can only say that I hope you, your friends and your family are healthy and that your business has managed to weather most of the difficulties that this year has thrown at us.
Huge parts of the hospitality sector are reopening again and many have been buoyed by the success of the
Kate Nicholls UKHospitality Chief Executive
A popular myth says that, at the outbreak of the Second World War, BBC television programming was abruptly cut-off halfway through a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The urban legend goes on to state that the BBC
resumed TV transmission seven years later, picking up in exactly the same spot in the cartoon, accompanied by the continuity announcer’s carefree bon mot: “As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted.”
Government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme. Unfortunately, there are still many businesses unable to reopen. The late-night sector is dealing with the worst of this, with nightclubs still closed and next to no indication as to when they might be able to open.
We need clarity from the Government as soon as humanly possible. There needs to be a detailed roadmap for the reopening of the sector and, if the Government has no plans to allow its reopening any time soon, a comprehensive package of financial support to ensure that businesses stay afloat and people keep their jobs. Full furlough support has now ended and the scheme will be wound-up totally at the end of October. If there is not a plan in place very soon, it is difficult to see how some of these businesses are going to survive.
UKHospitality responds to latest PHE food targets
Responding to new calorie and salt reduction targets for eating out and takeaway businesses, announced by Public Health England, UKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said:
“The hospitality sector has been supportive and proactive in helping to provide healthier choices and
UKHospitality has been pushing the Government to support the late- night sector and we will continue to do so. Losing our clubs and music venues would be a huge, potentially irreparable, blow to the UK. It would hit us culturally and socially as well as economically and the Government needs to take every available measure to make sure that this asset to our economy and society is supported and not allowed to just quietly expire.
BBC television broadcasting was suspended again for one month in 1947, just eight months after it resumed, this time due to a national fuel shortage. It does not seem to have done any lasting damage to the corporation, but a similar false start for the hospitality sector could be fatal. We need to get this restart right at the first time of asking.
nutritional information for customers. We continue to support the objectives and will never absent ourselves from such well-intentioned pursuits, but the timing of these announcements, with the country still in the grips of a pandemic and hospitality businesses struggling to stay afloat, rather sticks in the craw.
“Never have the burdens threatening the existence of hospitality businesses been more acute – this is not the time to throw petrol on the fire.”
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