Retail sales figures and the largest surplus on the UK’s public finances since records began in 1993 today provided a boost to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
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‘My wife’s ghost’: a crazy comedy that doesn’t find its tone | Cinema: premieres and reviews
The ghost of my wife, María Ripoll’s new film is a crazy comedy of bed entanglements and infidelities that starts with good ideas but fails to go beyond its intentions.…
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Most organisations now collect large volumes of safety, operational, and environmental data, but too much of it still sits in separate systems. When those signals are connected, you move from…
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British Gas owner Centrica handed chief executive Chris O’Shea a £1.4 million annual bonus and £2.2 million in long-term share awards for 2025.
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His mother said that he sang from his first cries, as Michèle Friche recalls in her monograph (Buchet Chastel, 1988). José van Dam’s voice was always natural and musical, regardless…
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The appointment of administrators at Global Counsel could come as soon as Friday.
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First, you smell a julep, the nose-slap of muddled mint that revives the senses from whatever slumber had befallen them. Then comes the bourbon, the court jester that brings no…
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Donald Trump urged Tehran to strike a ‘meaningful’ deal.
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A novel that mixes Ancient Egypt with fantasy and has a young embalmer as its protagonist wins the 20th Minotaur Prize | Culture
The shadow of the black lotusa novel that mixes Ancient Egypt with fantasy and has a young embalmer as its protagonist, has today been proclaimed winner of the Minotaur Prize…