3 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 04 December: SSP and Future shares surge, £28bn energy plan to lift bills

Consumers are facing higher gas and electricity bills after Ofgem today approved £28 billion investment in Britain’s energy network.

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3 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 04 December: Boost for SSP and Future, £28bn energy plan to lift bills

Consumers are facing higher gas and electricity bills after Ofgem today approved £28 billion investment in Britain’s energy network.

Economics

4 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 04 December: Energy bills to rise, SSP and Future shares surge

Consumers are facing higher gas and electricity bills after Ofgem today approved £28 billion investment in Britain’s energy network.

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5 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 04 December: Energy bills to rise, Frasers and SSP post results

Consumers are facing higher gas and electricity bills after Ofgem today approved £28 billion investment in Britain’s energy network.

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7 h. ago Kate Winslet's +1 is handsome son Joe Anders for London premiere of directorial debut Goodbye June | Fashion Trends

Kate Winslet's +1 is handsome son Joe Anders for London premiere of directorial debut Goodbye June | Fashion Trends  Hindustan Times

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20 h. ago Billy Elliot The Musical to return to London directed by Stephen Daldry

Billy Elliot The Musical to return to London directed by Stephen Daldry  West End Theatre

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45 h. ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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56 h. ago Fall in board pay drives fears top directors will shun London

FTSE 100 non-executive fees trail inflation by almost 12% over the past decade, new research finds

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6 d. ago Barcelona sporting director Deco met with major Italian agent in London

Barcelona sporting director Deco met with major Italian agent in London  Barca Universal

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6 d. ago The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time

(London)The delicate experimentation of the band’s debut may not have chimed with the post-punk 1980s, but its durability makes this deluxe reissue thoroughly deservedThe Durutti Column’s debut album does not have an auspicious origin story. The band whose name it bore had split acrimoniously just before they were supposed to record it. Their guitarist Vini Reilly was so poleaxed by depression that he was virtually unable to leave his house: 12 different attempts were made to section him over the course of 1979. Believing that Reilly was “going to die”, Factory Records boss Tony Wilson intervened, buying him a new guitar, then suggested he visit a studio with the label’s troubled but visionary producer Martin Hannett as “an experiment”. The sessions were a disaster. Hannett ignored Reilly in favour of tinkering with a vast amount of cutting-edge electronic equipment he had brought with him. Reilly fitfully played something on the guitar, but eventually stormed out with the words: “I...

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8 d. ago Sharjah to London: Air Arabia launching direct flights starting at Dh999

Sharjah to London: Air Arabia launching direct flights starting at Dh999  MSN

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8 d. ago Jingle Bell Heist review – Netflix comedy is slight cut above standard festive filler

A game cast and some decent twists help to elevate this passably entertaining London-set Christmas offering about a department store robberyWe’re a few weeks into the annual Netflix Christmas dump and standards have already fallen below freezing. In both Alicia Silverstone’s A Merry Little Ex-Mas and Minka Kelly’s Champagne Problems, motions were lethargically, and cheaply, gone through without any seasonal sparkle added, a low bar once again set for the next month and change.So while there’s nothing all that remarkable about the streamer’s latest festive effort, crime caper turned romcom Jingle Bell Heist, there’s just about enough to give it an edge over its more anemic peers. Rather than being set in Snowflakeville or some other absurdly named small town in Middle America (while being clearly filmed in Canada), it’s shot on location in London during Christmas 2023 (directed by Mike Flanagan’s long-time cinematographer Michael Fimognari). The city does a great deal of heavy-liftin...

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8 d. ago Jessie J slams ‘beast’ Hollywood star ex in savage new track on return to music after breast cancer battle

JESSIE J has taken a leaf out of Jennifer Lopez's book and taken aim at her Hollywood ex on her new music. Earlier this year, J-Lo slammed Ben Affleck on track Wreckage of You after her marriage to the actor broke down. Now Jessie has let rip at Channing Tatum, who she dated from 2018...

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1 week ago Direct flights are officially relaunching between London and this hard

Direct flights are officially relaunching between London and this hard-to-reach part of Britain  Time Out Worldwide

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1 week ago Private credit directors in London are making Canadian moves, too

Private credit directors in London are making Canadian moves, too  eFinancialCareers

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2 w. ago The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’

Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflectionIn 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was looking for connections with the spirit. The Inheritance allowed me to talk about matters of the heart.It was the world premiere at the Young Vic in London, so we were making something brand new, which is always thrilling. They’d already done a week’s rehearsal with another actor who had pulled out of what became my role. I stayed up all night reading Matthew López’s script before my audition. It was so gripping. I was nervous of Stephen Daldry going into the audition, as he has an enormous status and he’s very front-footed in the rehearsal room. I like to be in the background and find my way, so his working methods frightened me a little bit. But I put all of that aside to serve this story. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oasis set to land their dream of playing at the home of Manchester City

Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are being lined up to perform next year at Manchester City's home The Etihad Stadium, which will mark the return of live music shows there

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2 w. ago ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations Portrait: Tom PilstonIt is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London.Ettedgui, 61, is a Bafta- and Emmy-winning director and producer whose credits include Kinky Boots, McQueen and Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink to make West End debut in Romeo and Juliet

The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in MarchStranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Romeo and Juliet, opposite British film star Noah Jupe, in a production directed by Olivier award-winner Robert Icke.Sink, who plays Max in the Netflix sci-fi hit, started her career on stage. She was cast in the lead role in the musical Annie when she was 10, and remained in it for 18 months in New York. “I was a Broadway kid, so I’ve always dreamed about doing a show in the West End,” she said. “To get to do that in one of Shakespeares’s most famous plays under Rob’s direction with Noah will be such an exciting challenge. London theatre has this incredible energy, and I can’t wait to be a part of it.” Sink becomes the latest in a line of US stars who have made their West End debuts in recent years, including Sigourney Weaver (The Tempest), Brie Larson (Elektra) and Susan Sarandon (Mary Page Marlowe...

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2 w. ago Rohan Davies Appointed Managing Director of London Market Business at Markel Insurance

Rohan Davies Appointed Managing Director of London Market Business at Markel Insurance  Risk & Insurance

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