Tens of thousands of rail workers may return to picket lines after their union rejected revised pay offers to avert more walkouts. The RMT union had been deliberating over a 5% pay rise, backdated to January last year, along with a 4% hike for 2023. Train operators and Network Rail called it their “best and
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has not ruled out increasing pay offers to public sector workers, but warned that giving more money to teachers and nurses could entrench high inflation. Speaking as it was revealed the UK economy narrowly avoided recession in 2022, Mr Hunt also indicated he would resist pressure to cancel a planned cut to
Syria’s suffering is a unique desolation and inside Idlib we’ve seen the face of utter desperation. Here, they thought their plight couldn’t get any worse than running from shelling and cowering from regime bombs, but what was already an horrendously wretched life for millions, has become a whole lot more tragic since the earthquake. People
The US has shot down an unknown object flying in its airspace, off the coastline of Alaska – just days after it downed a Chinese “spy” balloon. The object, shot down on the order of President Joe Biden, was flying at a high altitude of about 40,000ft and was the size of a small car,
The Super Bowl is a big place for commercials of all kinds but it’s a big deal for movie fans because films need to be sold too. We’ll see lots of ads for upcoming movies during the big game, but as with most Super Bowl ads these days, we don’t need to actually wait for
This Sunday, Rihanna will perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show, her first performance in years. And while she didn’t address whether or not she would be dropping any new album during her interview today with Apple Music’s Nadeska Alexis ahead of the game-time show, she did share what to expect…and how motherhood tied into
Before production on YOU Season 4 got underway, the hit Netflix thriller’s leading man made one request for the series. Penn Badgley opened up in the latest episode of his Podcrushed podcast that he asked YOU showrunner Sera Gamble to cut down on his sex scenes. “I asked Sera Gamble, [the] creator, ‘Can I just
When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra. Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss’s asks for help locating his missing
Hester Peirce, commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Valerie Plesch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission publicly rebuked her agency’s crypto enforcement, calling it “paternalistic and lazy” and asking if a “hostile” regulator is the
Labour has held on to its seat in West Lancashire after a by-election victory which saw Ashley Dalton become the country’s newest MP. Ms Dalton secured a majority of 8,326 over Conservative candidate Mike Prendergast, with a 10.52% swing from the Tories to Labour. In her victory speech, she said the people of her constituency
The economy narrowly avoided recession in the second half of last year, according to early official figures, despite growth going into a sharp reverse in December partly due to the impact of strikes and lack of Premier League football. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that output between October and December was flat at
Air raid sirens have sounded across the whole of Ukraine as Russia launched sustained strikes in several parts of the country hitting power supplies. Explosions have been heard in the capital Kyiv and the surrounding area, while residents have been urged to take shelter and not ignore alerts. Kremlin forces struck critical infrastructure in Kharkiv,
A 14-year-old girl who was reported missing in 2021 has been found pregnant in the closet of a Michigan home. A US Marshals fugitive team found the teen – who was in a distraught state – at about 5:30pm on Tuesday in Port Huron, Michigan, Deputy Marshal Robert Watson said. “She was pretty upset, she
Play video content Facebook/Mb Jackson Sarah Silverman‘s comedy show in New Jersey got ugly before it even started — an elderly Black man was kicked out of the venue for protesting the infamous skit she did more than 15 years ago … in blackface. The demonstrator, 71-year-old Michael B. Jackson, says he bought a front-row
The microbrand watch scene is as exciting, turbulent, and novel as its ever been. But this brings breadth between the best microbrand watches and the worst microbrand watches. So, without pointing out the obvious, you are reading this article. That means you’re at least considering eschewing traditional luxury watches for the best microbrand watches. We
Kevin Bacon can buy himself flowers. The actor took to his social media today, along with his wife Kyra Sedgwick, to cover Miley Cyrus’ smash hit “Flowers” — featuring the stylings of a screaming toy goat. For the uninitiated, Bacon has been posting videos of himself singing online for quite a while now in a series
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