A statement issued at 15:30 Monday by NATS updates the situation following Iceland's volcanic eruption and subsequent air traffic disruption thus: "The volcanic eruption has reduced and the volcano is not currently emitting ash to altitudes that will affect the UK. Assuming there are no further significant ash emissions we are now looking at a continuously improving situation..."

Edward Sankey has been elected as new chairman of the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR), the operational risk body. An independent consultant in corporate and operational risk, Edward Sankey is a fellow of the Institute, has been a member of its council since 2005 and as a member of the executive committee has been leading the IOR's events programme.

Tens of thousands of customers have been affected by fire and flooding at BT's Paddington Exchange in central London. Many firms across the South East remain unable to make outbound or receive inbound phone calls and data since the incident took place yesterday morning.

The Business Continuity Awards, the industry's most anticipated event, gets ready once again to recognise the very best in your sector. This year's Awards Gala Dinner, which will be hosted by Ruby Wax, takes place on 12 May 2010 at the Park Lane Hilton. Find out who this year's finalists are...

The Business Continuity Awards 2010 are to be hosted by Ruby Wax. Now in its twelfth year, the Business Continuity Awards present the best opportunity for organisations and individuals to gain the prestige of public acknowledgement as being the leader in their field.

SunGard has acquired 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company. Privately-owned Hosting 365 has built a strong presence in Ireland delivering both data centre managed IT services and on-demand computing services within its cloud computing environment.

UK Ministry of Defence and the National Policing Improvement Agency have both appointed VEGA Consulting to advise on their business continuity management. Under the first contract, VEGA is supporting the MOD's secure Public Key Infrastructure service, which is responsible for managing the encryption keys required for ensuring secure communications across the MOD in the UK.

COOP Systems has announced an agreement with MIR3 to integrate its inEnterprise Intelligent Notification and Response platform into COOP Systems' myCOOP Business Continuity system, allowing users access to MIR3's notification and response software and initiate any necessary communication without leaving the myCOOP Business Continuity system.

ICM Business Continuity Services, part of the Phoenix group of companies, has acquired the UK arm of Office Shadow. The cash consideration payable amounts to £447,000 for the business and assets with a further £250,000 payable to a third party software developer, EPAM, for the completion of an updated version of the main software suite, due for delivery in Q2 2010.

Martin Caddick has left Marsh to head up business continuity management at PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has gained certification to BS 25999, the UK standard for business continuity management

Almost two thirds of staff don't know their company business continuity strategy, according to data resilience firm Adam Continuity

Marsh outlines the immediate recovery actions for businesses affected by flooding

Time to recover and cost reduction biggest backup challenges, according to a recent poll

SunGard announces imminent launch of a new risk assessment software module