It’s all too easy to become distracted by the hysteria of presidents, prime ministers, politics and performance in this busy start to 2017.

The cost of taking the assessment to gain a new Paraplanning standard will start at £347.

An organisation that has pledged to set up the much-discussed Paraplanner standard says it needs to be “a collaborative effort rather than a competition”.

It only feels like a moment ago that we entered 2016. Both personally and professionally it's been quite a year.