Penny Black's Social World - 18 February 2016
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Members of the Walcot RFC under-15 team won £5000 pounds worth of funding for their club by winning 1st Central’s rugby trick shot challenge.
The campaign, run by the car insurance provider, asked rugby clubs across the UK to showcase their skills, athleticism and showmanship in a trick shot video. Walcot RFC’s winning entry showed Max Machin demonstrating a difficult conversion and drop goal shot.
Walcot RFC will use the prize money to buy new kit for the U15 team and purchase training equipment for the wider club. The money will also be used to develop the next generation of rugby players and support the U15 team as they move towards colts and adult rugby. Watch the video here: http://ow.ly/XW2XF
The Big Picture
Celebrities who have been injuried on reality TV show The Jump, which features winter sports could lose millions after The Mirror revealed stars are not insured for loss of earnings in the event of a serious injury.
Made in Chelsea’s Mark-Francis Vandelli, left, quit after fracturing his ankle in a fall, gymnast Beth Tweddle, middle, is in hospital after surgery to repair neck bones following her high-speed collision with a barrier and Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington and Holby City actress Tina Hobley, right, have bowed out from the show.
The Big Debate
Have you started Brexit contingency planning? Lloyd’s chief risk officer and general counsel Sean McGovern warned in a lecture this week that a vote to leave the European Union in the forthcoming UK referendum could fundamentally damage the London market. It was emphasised that insurers’ contingency plans would be particularly important. Is your business already preparing a contingency plan around the referendum? What in particular is it doing?
Katie Marriner, senior reporter, Post
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Tweet of the week
Wonder if the bollard hit by @MikeCraneLV will be putting in a Whiplash claim? Maybe send it for physio? @Insurance_Post
— paul moors (@paulmoors1) February 12, 2016
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