CA daily briefing: Friday 4 December

Your essential briefing of the morning's top news stories.
Good morning, Hilde Oesterkloeft here with the latest news and updates.
The latest from ICAS
What CAs need to learn – and how – is in an accelerated state of flux. So what does that mean for our educational methods and models? Nick Scott asks Alice Deakin CA, ICAS’ newly appointed Executive Director of Learning.
Today's top stories from around the web
- Government to cut £1bn from rail budget (BBC News)
- High-flying business figures exempted from travel quarantine rules (City AM)
- ECB Seen Extending and Boosting Stimulus to Battle Longer Crisis (Bloomberg)
- COVID-19: Ryanair buys 75 new MAX aircraft as it sets sights on end of coronavirus crisis (Sky News)
- UK food and drink trends 'fundamentally reshaped' by pandemic (The Guardian)
- Brexit: ‘Breakthrough still possible’ as UK-EU trade talks resume (BBC News)
- Sterling hits highest level in a year as dollar selloff continues (City AM)
- COVID-19: Primark reveals £430m lockdown sales hit as it refuses to go online (Sky News)
- Restrictive employment clauses may be scrapped (Accountancy Daily)
That's all for today. Check back next week for your Monday briefing.