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Month: January 2023
Lean on me.
Jacob is cruel to Leyla as she announces some potentially life-changing news.
Katie Price says she was called a ‘dirty f** yid’ and ‘Tottenham supporting yiddo’ by the men.
Sam King MBE’s story is being cast in ‘wonderful truth and light’ as events get underway to mark 75 years since the Windrush’s arrival.
Will France defend their crown?
There’s a game in this one.
A clash of the titans
You need to spot the signs and act quickly.
The lineup is rammed with Hall of Famers.
Plus popular ‘hacks’ you should avoid.
Friday’s show was a fascinating watch!
He’s back!
A reader is upset by the news from Microsoft and Ubisoft and argues that big budget video game development has never been in a worse place.
A reader recommends six video games, including Life Is Strange and Subnautica but warns they’re not something you’re likely to play twice.
Living in the shadow of a pandemic while hurtling headfirst into a cost of living crisis, being a student is nothing like it said in the brochure
Readers imagine swapping the main characters of one game with another, with Mario in The Witcher and Bayonetta in God Of War.
The actor might have a fair point with her reason why.
This is what the stars have in store for you today.
This particular 17th century battle is previously unrecorded in the history books.
The labour unrest continues to rumble in the UK (Picture: Metro.co.uk)
A grab-bag of workers are set to walk out today in the latest chapter of the UK’s months-long labour unrest.
Legal advisers and court associates who are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents civil servants, are striking.
The HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) runs most courts and tribunals in England and Wales.
The agency has moved to a digital case management system called the Common Platform, which union members see as ‘failing’ and inefficient.
PCS says there has been an ‘alarming increase in reports of stress and anxiety and long working’ since the IT system was rolled out, with some members being overworked.
‘Working through lunches and working late should be the exception, not the norm,’ the union has previously said.
Courts affected: Aberystwyth
Aldershot
Barrow-in-Furness
Basildon
Basingstoke
Birmingham
Bolton
Bradford & Keighley
Brighton
Bristol
Caernarfon
Cambridge
Cannock
Cardiff
Carlisle
Coventry
Crawley
Crewe (South Cheshire)
Derby
Dudley
Durham
Ealing
Folkestone
Gateshead
Grimsby
Guildford
Hastings
Haverfordwest
Hereford
High Wycombe
HMCTS Osprey House
Hull and Holderness
Ipswich
Kidderminster
Kirklees (Huddersfield)
Lavender Hill
Leeds
Lincoln
Liverpool and Knowsley Magistrates’ Court
Liverpool Civil and Family Court
Llanelli
Luton and South Bedfordshire
Maidstone
Manchester
Mansfield
Medway
Mid and South East Northumberland
Milton Keynes
Mold
Newton Ayliffe
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Newport (South Wales)
North Somerset
North Staffordshire
North Tyneside
Norwich
Nottingham
Oxford
Peterborough
Portsmouth
Reading
Sefton
South Tyneside
St Albans
Staines
Stevenage
Sunderland
Swindon
Tameside
Teeside
Telford
Uxbridge
Walsall
Warrington
Warwick
West Hampshire
Wigan and Leigh
Willesden
Wimbledon
Worcester
Worthing
Yeovil
Today, some 300 PCS union members will stage job action across more than 80 courts after the HMCTS refused to fix the ‘many serious issues with the new system’.
Common Platform allows solicitors and barristers, prosecutors and court staff to access case information.
PCS is calling on the HMCTS to prevent new cases from being logged onto the Common Platform, carry out a stress survey of all system users and promise not to cut jobs as the office is digitised.
The agency briefly paused the introduction of the Common Platform in September to resolve the long-running dispute but thawed it out in October.
Picket lines will also be forming outside the whisky giant Diageo’s plant in Leven, Scotland for 48 hours from today.
Diageo produces bar shelf staples such as Captain Morgan, Baileys and Guinness.
Nurses are among countless workers up and down the UK voting for industrial action amid the cost-of-living crisis – though many of their problems are far from recent (Picture: PA)
Workers of the bottling plant who are members of the UK’s biggest union, Unite, are striking today over the introduction of a lower pay rate for new starters.
This isn’t exactly a new problem – Unite says this issue was first flagged through the grievance process in 2019.
Because of the lower rate, the union estimates new engineering staffers are losing around 6% of their pay. The strike will impact engineering support at the plant.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: ‘Diageo recently recorded £4.4bn in profits which equates to a profit of around £157,000 being generated by every employee.
‘They are awash with billions in profit, so to then attempt to cut our members’ pay is a shocking example of corporate greed.
‘Unite will always stand with our members to protect pay, terms and conditions.’
A Diageo spokesperson said 10 weekend shift engineers are taking industrial action this weekend. They denied the company has introduced lowered pay rates.
‘We have well-developed contingency plans in place to ensure the site can continue to operate safely and as planned,’ they said, ‘we remain committed to seeking a resolution to this dispute and are open to further discussions.’
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