Classic album going for a good cause

Under the hammer Fancy getting your hands on a vinyl copy of The Who’s seminal Live at Leeds signed by Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Roger Daltrey? Or perhaps some signed books by master of the spy thriller John le Carre?

These are among the items currently under the hammer at an online auction being staged by Glasgow-based Just Employment Law (JEL) to raise funds for Pancreatic Cancer Action Scotland.

More than 100 items are on the list, which also includes a Rolling Stones book, Out of Our Heads, signed by former bass player Bill Wyman.

November is pancreatic cancer awareness month and the auction, which opened on the first of the month, will end on Thursday November 19, which is World Pancreatic Cancer Day.

Auction organiser David Mcrae, managing director of JEL, said: “We are proud to partner with Pancreatic Cancer Action Scotland. It is a charity with which I have a close personal connection and our team at JEL will do all it can to help raise awareness and funds at this most troubling of times for charities. We’ve tried to deliver an auction that has a little something for everyone.”

At the virtual bar Staying online, drinks giant Diageo has taken its £1 million per year Learning for Life hospitality training programme into the virtual world.

The company said the programme, which has traditionally helped young unemployed people establish careers in hospitality, has been repurposed to give businesses the skills and training support they need to meet the demands of dealing with Covid-19.

This is in addition to Diageo’s £30m Raising the Bar programme, which is supporting hospitality operators to trade safely.

Nicola Reid, learning for life manager at Diageo, said: “People and businesses in the hospitality industry across the UK are fighting for their future and we stand alongside them in that fight. That’s why we’ve refocussed our Learning for Life programme so it offers the best training opportunities possible.”