3 d. ago Jazz Cafe venue planned for former Victorian theatre in east London

Jazz Cafe venue planned for former Victorian theatre in east London  The Stage

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4 d. ago Melania will skip Trump's big Middle East trip as he plans major power play on the world stage

First lady Melania Trump is skipping President Donald Trump's whirlwind trip to the Middle East next week.

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6 d. ago Doc Martin star Martin Clunes insists 'hippie' neighbours are 'not travellers' amid acrimonious planning row near his country home

Martin Clunes has insisted his 'hippie' neighbours are not travellers in the latest stage of an acrimonious planning row centering on land just 300 yards away from house he shares with wife Phillipa Braithwaite.

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2 w. ago The delicate diplomacy of the seating plan for the Pope’s funeral

The seating plan has been described as a ‘master plan’ in stage-managing the ‘big egos’ of world leaders.

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2 w. ago Cameron Mackintosh, one of the last great theater impresarios, has plans for stages everywhere

The great composer Stephen Sondheim loved puzzles, and when he died in 2021, he left one for his good friend, British super-producer Cameron Mackintosh

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2 w. ago US stocks end higher after Trump soothes Fed independence worries

Wall Street stages relief rally after president says he has no plans to fire Jay Powell

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2 w. ago Parking and footfall concerns raised as 'active travel' plans open for feedback

The potential issues concerning Keir Street and Henderson Street in Bridge of Allan have been raised by a local councillor after Stirling Council revealed details of the two-stage plans.

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2 w. ago Stagecoach drivers plan seven days of strikes over ‘unacceptable’ pay offer

A number of strike dates have been set throughout May.

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3 w. ago Sky News's Jacquie Beltrao was 'planning my funeral' before miracle drug reversed stage 4 cancer

Sky News presenter Jacquie Beltrao is now cancer-free and entering her seventh decade, something she previously thought might never happen - but it has been a heartbreakingly difficult road to get here

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3 w. ago Uyghur rights group calls on hotel chains not to ‘sanitise’ China abuses in Xinjiang

Growth in international hotels coincides with government effort to push region as a tourism destination Almost 200 international hotels are operating or planning to open in Xinjiang, despite calls from human rights groups for global corporations not to help “sanitise” the Chinese government’s human rights abuses in the region, a report has said.The report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) identified 115 operational hotels which the organisation said “benefit from a presence in the Uyghur region”. At least another 74 were in various stages of construction or planning, the report said. The UHRP said some of the hotels also had exposure or links of concern to forced labour and labour transfer programmes. Continue reading...

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