pivoting from work to people
Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland Getty Images Recruitment crisis? Boris Johnson says the answer is to pay workers more. That’s unusual from a Tory MP, and risks fuelling inflation. There are more imaginative alternative ways of responding to the staff shortages which have put recruits in the driving seat. More pay may not […]
Jayne Ludlow: Wales manager wants fully professional women’s game
England boss Neville agreed with Ludlow, having gone out of his way to praise her side before a question was even asked at his post-match briefing. “First of all I want to say how good Wales have been over the campaign,” he said. “They took us to a place where this England team has never […]
Displaced Palestinians wait for Israel to allow their return home
Rushdi Abualouf BBC News Gaza correspondent EPA Palestinians have been waiting on the Al Rashid road, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, to return to the northern Gaza Strip Thousands of displaced Palestinians have been prevented from returning to their homes in the north of the Gaza Strip, after Israel blocked a main road, accusing […]
Bereaved parents’ childcare petition to be debated by MPs
Becky Morton BBC political reporter “It feels like we have an army of people behind us” – Bereaved parents’ childcare petition to be debated The parents of a boy who died after choking on food at his nursery are calling on the government not to increase the number of children that staff are allowed to […]
Manx milk price to rise by 7% in January due to rising farm costs
BBC The latest price rise will come into force on 1 January The price of a litre of milk on the Isle of Man is set to rise by a further 7% from January 2023. It follows an 8% increase in April and a 15% hike in July due to increasing farm and production costs. […]
Six things to know about the original play
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Matt Humphrey The play is being broadcast across cinemas in the UK next month Fleabag must have sounded like an odd prospect on paper when it was first performed in 2013. A monologue about an unnamed woman with a considerable sexual appetite who runs a guinea pig-themed cafe while mourning the […]
EasyJet holiday bookings up despite cost-of-living crisis
Getty Images People are protecting their spending on holidays despite the cost-of-living crisis, the boss of EasyJet has said. Johan Lundgren told the BBC the airline had seen strong demand for flights over half term, Christmas and New Year despite the “pressure” on households. However, he said demand outside peak periods remained below usual levels. […]
Don’t call me an ‘influencer’
BBC In just four years Jamie Genevieve has gone from department store make-up girl to social media sensation, amassing more than a million Instagram followers and 750,000 subscribers on YouTube. Jamie has a lipstick named after her and works closely with “about 15” of the world’s top beauty brands, jetting to locations including The Hamptons, […]
Tributes hail Faithless singer as an ‘incredible talent’
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News BBC Former bandmate Sister Bliss said he died “peacefully in his sleep” in his south London home on Friday night The music world has been paying tribute to the lead singer of British dance act Faithless with one British DJ hailing him as “an incredible talent”. The musician and DJ was […]
Have Olympic towns Weymouth and Portland been forgotten?
Google During its heyday, the area around Portland Port was bustling with activity Their roles as hosts of the 2012 Olympics should have put Weymouth and Portland on the map, but little more than a decade later they have been branded “forgotten towns”. A 2022 report by South Dorset Research Group concluded that the seaside […]