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...Transport secretary Mark Harper agreed a contract extension of up to nine years in September 2023....
...In London her latest role is Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, which she will also take to New York in April....
...The FT calculated that in the three years to April 2023, the government spent £23bn to plug the losses from ticket sales....
...The sport’s increasing value has been helped in recent years by higher scoring and tighter matches, said Lynn Holzman, the NCAA’s vice-president of women’s basketball....
...From May 15 to 26; further information and tickets here ‘Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”’, CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre Tony-winner Bartlett Sher directs Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the Harper Lee classic...
...The rejected offer would have raised average pay for a driver from £60,000 a year to £65,000, Harper said....
...Transport Secretary Mark Harper said Aslef should “follow the RMT’s lead and give their members a say”....
...The union rejected a pay and reform offer worth 8 per cent over two years in April, and rail industry executives are gloomy at the prospect of a deal....
...Lynn Perry, chief executive of children’s charity Barnardo’s, said the two-child limit was one of the “biggest drivers” of child poverty....
...This marked the first year-on-year drop since April 2012....
...Transport secretary Mark Harper this week urged Aslef’s leadership to put the pay and reform offer back to its members, days after the RMT union reached an agreement with train operators to end its national...
...This message — one that is made even more stark by the statements released by Mark Harper, Merriman’s boss at the DfT, and Susan Hall, the Tory mayoral candidate in London — is that the capital has been...
...Harper called for Aslef, which in April rejected a pay offer from Britain’s 16 train companies, to end its long-running industrial action....
...It follows the union’s decision in April to reject a government offer that included a one-off payment and a 5 per cent pay increase in the 2023-24 fiscal year....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Unhedged is produced by Jake Harper and edited by Bryant Urstadt. Our executive producer is Jacob Goldstein. We had additional help from Topher Forhecz....
...Unhedged is produced by Jake Harper and edited by Bryant Urstadt. Our executive producer is Jacob Goldstein. We need additional help from Topher Forhecz....
...But what they are also saying is that prior to April 14th, they thought there was a roughly 5 per cent chance of direct conflict between Israel and Iran....
...“We had to get the application in before Portugal ended the programme,” explains Lynn, who asked to be identified only by her first name....
...Now approaching her own half century (she will turn 50 on 17 April), Victoria Beckham has moved things up another gear....
...It’s produced by Sonja Hutson, Jake Harper and me Marc Filippino. Additional help this week from Saffeya Ahmed. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...Mania by Lionel Shriver (Borough Press/Harper)Never shy of getting stuck in, Shriver now sets her satirical sights on groupthink and the policing of thought....
...December marks the index’s highest level since April and follows two consecutive months of declining confidence....
...Although fresh talks are expected this week, the union is still in dispute with a group of train operating companies and is due to stage two 24-hour stoppages on March 30 and April 1....
...“We used to get things like Harper’s Bazaar – and this gave me an idea of what elegance and beauty used to be.”...
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