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...Unite the Union has spent about £30mn on strike pay since Sharon Graham took over as general secretary two years ago with a pledge to take more robust industrial action on behalf of workers....
...Others include Dame Sharon White, the outgoing John Lewis boss, former Sky boss Sir Jeremy Darroch and former ITV chair Sir Peter Bazalgette....
...Not so long ago, gardening was an alien concept to Jason Williams. “I had zero interest in gardening before lockdown,” he says....
...Tarry said he had “long been an admirer of the employee-ownership model” and said they had to be “brilliant retailers for customers and invest in growth”....
...Freya nods: “Sometimes when dad and I have been in there for a long time and they’ve had enough of us, a silverback will take dad’s hand and lead him to the door.” Not all animals can be befriended....
...Dame Sharon White will step down as chair of John Lewis and Waitrose in 2025 as part of an “orderly succession process”....
...“The nice thing about winter-flowering shrubs is that you smell them for a long time....
...White said on Monday: “There is a long road ahead and I am committed to handing on the strongest possible partnership to my successor.”...
...“This is a historic vote,” said Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite....
...One trigger for this appears to have been a note from Goldman Sachs, in which analysts Peter Oppenheimer and Sharon Bell, among others, said while they are “relatively constructive on the European defence...
...This didn’t happen, but for a long time it didn’t matter because that part of the PRIIPS directive was not activated....
...This curtails what could have been a long life, as orchids renew themselves all the time, says Nick Fry of Bournemouth Orchid Society: “I had a Phalaenopsis for 30 years.”...
...Departing chair Dame Sharon White said the group would focus “unashamedly” on its retail offering by opening more Waitrose shops and refurbishing existing ones, as well as revitalising John Lewis’s products...
...Labour peers Lord Jonathan Kestenbaum, a financial services executive, businessman Lord Clive Hollick and economist Lord Jonathan Eatwell, plus Liberal Democrat Baroness Sharon Bowles, a former MEP, will...
...Douglas looked as though he’d thrown on something found at the bottom of Sharon Stone’s wardrobe, the morning after the night before....
...The play is often at its best when it focuses on personal exchanges, particularly between Nye and Jennie — a remarkable politician in her own right, played here with fiery wit by Sharon Small....
...But Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union, was scathing....
...Unite, Britain’s second-biggest trade union and the Labour party’s largest long-term donor, has failed to file its past two sets of annual accounts in the latest sign of its long-running financial and legal...
...Its range of more than 650 host plants includes trees such as oak, elm, olive and plane, and a long list of garden favourites including lavender, rosemary, hebe and jasmine....
...Although Morgan Stanley has its second female CFO in Sharon Yeshaya, all three candidates in last year’s race to replace James Gorman as CEO were men....
...The future of Grangemouth, which opened in the 1920s and is one of just six refineries remaining in the UK, has long been in doubt due to its age....
...Job moves John Lewis has named Jason Tarry as chair, succeeding Sharon White. He previously spent more than 30 years working for Tesco....
...How long unions’ support for Labour lasts if the party wins the election remains to be seen....
...Over a long career, Forstall had a finger everywhere in commercial Louisiana — importer, banker, legislator and sugar planter with enslaved labour....
...After an hour-long interval (why?) the audience is ushered back into the stalls seats to watch “O Medea”, a 25-minute film....
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