Laura Penman

Owner of @FishmoreHall @FoodAtFishmore @FishmoreSpa Ludlow,Shropshire. Director of @ShropTourism. Director of Marketing @HotelsShrops. Busy girl

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

@F1 Cars are measured to the mm, weighed to the gram or penalised. But race directors can pick and choose what cars are allowed to be unlapped under safety car on the last lap? Disgrace. Rerun the race tomorrow. Neither HAM or VER want to win a championship this way @C4F1 @F1

[George Russell @GeorgeRussell63]

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!!

[George Russell @GeorgeRussell63]

Max is an absolutely fantastic driver who has had an incredible season and I have nothing but huge respect for him, but what just happened is absolutely unacceptable. I cannot believe what we’ve just seen.

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

#f1 why were only a select few cars allowed to overtake? I get wanting to finish the season “racing” and not under a safety car. I get that. But by choosing which cars could overtake before the safety car came in, race control chose the winner this year. Not cool. At all.

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

When @DHSCgovuk don’t get the person who wrote the documentation for workplace testing kits to read it themselves, but expect small business owners to read multiple documents that are multiple pages long.👌 #covidAdmin #workplacetesting

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

Hospitality reopened in July with toughest Covid protocols in the world - risk assessed with controls on capacity, managed social distancing, hygiene and ventilation. It kept people safe, 60m visits a week no increase in cases & less than 1% of staff caught Covid - its the model

[Alex Reilley @AlexReilley1]

END OF MARCH 2021

Debt moratorium ends!
Payment of deferred Q1 2020 VAT & PAYE falls due!
Business rates holiday ends!
VAT reverts to 20%!

@RishiSunak, you surely must have a plan - please don’t wait until the March budget to tell us what it is. Hospitality needs certainty NOW.

[Peter Borg-Neal @PeterBorgNeal]

It is important to not be churlish and recognise that today's announcement from @RishiSunak is a useful lifeline that will provide some short term support for our beleaguered sector. 1/

[Seat at the Table @seatat_thetable]

THANK YOU for the push yesterday! We can’t stop now! 6 days to make a difference. Please keep sharing, supporting and signing! 🙌 https://t.co/nR2iEHHZIb

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

@nathaneades , we’ve already sorted Fishmore wastage but will pass the info on.

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

With no parts of the country in tier 1 the best any open business can manage is just 15% of normal revenues. Over 95% hospitality closed. 80% by law and the remainder because it is t possible to trade. It means hospitality has only traded normally for 9 weeks in 2020

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

@RishiSunak

[Alex Reilley @AlexReilley1]

...The £billions you’ve invested into saving millions of jobs will be for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING unless you step back up to plate & provide much greater support.
It’s quite simple - if there are NO businesses left on the other side of this there will be NO JOBS.
Over to you.

[Andrew Grahame 💙 @andrewcgrahame]

As a result of Tier 4 restrictions we are having to close two of our hotels for Christmas, all were full until Saturdays announcement now we can barely fill one! The #hospitality sector will need more than just furlough to ensure it can survive! #COVID19 @UKHospKate

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

Reduced travel freedoms over xmas in all tiers,Welsh closing down a week early,has all had a disastrous impact on tier 1+2 #hospitality co’s for this xmas period.Xmas revenue pays overheads through a quiet winter. Retention bonus money for jan revoked 👏@RishiSunak Now what?

[Robin Hutson @RobinHutson]

OK so our brilliant team have spent past 24 hrs cancelling reservations since Tier 4 announced - cost to @The_Pig_Hotel @limewoodhotel circa £500,000 and plenty more to come, don’t forget us @RishiSunak take note #ruralhospitality in T 1,2,3 having tough time now @UKHospKate

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

A quick reminder as the government’s response to increased infection is ever more restrictions on hospitality only

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

We need govt to extend business rates holiday and reduced VAT rate through whole of next year to support recovery and to make an announcement on that ASAP to underpin investment and stave off business collapse

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

8 out of 10 hospitality businesses now closed or unable to trade under tier 2. Likely to be 9 out of 10 closed next week for Christmas as bookings collapse due to travel restrictions and consumer confidence tumbled, with no end in sight

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

Which is fine so long as hospitality businesses are still viable in Apr/May without having to take on a huge amount a of debt (assuming you can even get a CBIL loan-look at % hospitality denied access) to cover overheads over the winter months. Mort, heat, security & ins add up

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

We are extending furlough until the end of April 2021.

We will continue to pay 80% towards wages of unworked hours - giving businesses and employees across the UK certainty into the New Year.

Read more: https://t.co/tQzuqeAzzH #PlanForJobs

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

If haven’t already, please take 2 minutes to sign the petition. The debate is the 11th Jan and the more people behind it, the more weight it will have. Hospitality is a huge driver of employment and also supports a massive #supplychain @Dunne4Ludlow #hospitality #shropshire

[Chef & Restaurant Magazine @chefpublishing]

We have a date. 11th January 2021, 4.30pm the petition for a minister for hospitality will be debated in Parliament. It has never, ever been more important for you to ask everyone you know to sign. Those that have signed will receive notification of the event. @seatat_thetable

[Laura Penman @Laura__Penman]

This. Absolutely this. Sit on each other’s laps around tables that are too small at home and squish up on the sofa for gift opening, rub around each other helping out in the kitchen or meet up in secure #hospitality venues full of sanitiser and social distancing measures.

[AvondataUsers @avondatausers]

Opening hospitality ‘lowers Covid cases’, claims Dutch report. Find out more here:
https://t.co/cyiTox7dAE