8 h. ago Dozens of staff lose their jobs at major Scots uni in brutal wave of redundancies

DOZENS of staff have lost their jobs at a major Scots university in a brutal wave of redundancies. Aberdeen University announced more than 40 staff had been axed after a savage round of job cuts. The uni opened its voluntary severance and early retirement scheme in April as it tried to fill a £5.5million black...

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23 h. ago STV faces chaos before Christmas as staff prepare to strike over 60 job cuts

STV could be thrown into chaos before Christmas as staff prepare to strike over proposals to cut 60 jobs. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has launched a strike ballot after STV bosses admitted the broadcaster lost £200,000 before tax in the first half of 2025 and is scrambling to save cash. Union chiefs say...

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25 h. ago Michael Jackson's sister La Toya, 69, sparks health concerns with latest medical update

The older sister of late pop legend Michael Jackson shared a short video with Instagram followers while visiting a local medical centre in Los Angeles.

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28 h. ago BBC boss Tim Davie warns staff to not let narrative be 'given by enemies' amid Trump threat

As Donald Trump threatens the BBC with billion-dollar legal action in a row over 'editing', Beeb director-general Tim Davie has spoken to staff ahead of his departure

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28 h. ago £19million black hole at Sadiq Khan's Greater London Authority revealed as staff warned of job cuts

Full details emerge of feared shortfall in funding, days after 1,500 staff received email alerting them to risk of possible job losses

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30 h. ago Paris Jackson reveals she has a HOLE in her nose from drug abuse... after celebrating five years of sobriety

Paris Jackson revealed one of the devastating tolls that years of drug abuse took on her body in a recent social media video.

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30 h. ago Jobs at risk at City Hall: £19m hole revealed in Sadiq Khan's GLA accounts

Jobs at risk at City Hall: £19m hole revealed in Sadiq Khan's GLA accounts  London Evening Standard

Economics

30 h. ago Greater London Authority's £19million black hole revealed as staff warned of job cuts

Full details emerge of feared shortfall in funding, days after 1,500 staff received email alerting them to risk of possible job losses

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40 h. ago St George’s flags create ‘no go zones’ for NHS staff, health leaders warn

NHS staff have felt ‘deliberately intimidated’ by St George’s flags, warned one trust leader

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41 h. ago Jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis under new visa rules, warns prisons boss

THE Chief Inspector of prisons has warned that a jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis if the new visa restrictions are not reversed. Britain’s prisons are facing a staffing shortage as visa rules threaten to force a wave of foreign recruits to return home. There has been a surge...

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50 h. ago Andrew Miller is bookies’ favourite to win 2025 Booker prize

The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and SunnyAndrew Miller is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the 2025 Booker prize, which will be announced on Monday evening in London.The English author tops the William Hill odds at 6/4 for The Land in Winter, a novel set in 1960s England which follows two marriages struggling under the weight of postwar class divisions, professional dislocation and emotional estrangement. Miller was previously shortlisted for the Booker in 2001 for his novel Oxygen. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Met Police chief accused of making ‘thinly veiled threat’ to senior officers over job cuts

Sir Mark Rowley faces backlash over a proposed pay-off scheme for senior ranks, with union leaders accusing him of pressuring loyal officers to leave

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4 d. ago 'He's having an incredibly hard time': Inside Gordon Ramsay's restaurant nightmare as insiders reveal his 'shocking' multi

No surprise Ramsay was beaming in the photograph taken by the newly minted Sir David, posing proudly alongside his friend and staff as Beckham thanked them in a message posted online.

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5 d. ago Exclusive: 1,500 staff at Sadiq Khan's City Hall receive bombshell warning of possible job losses

Unprecedented email sent to all GLA staff as critics say the Government is failing London

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5 d. ago Jobs bombshell at Sadiq's City Hall: 1,500 staff warned of possible cuts next year

Jobs bombshell at Sadiq's City Hall: 1,500 staff warned of possible cuts next year  London Evening Standard

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6 d. ago Goldman Sachs' London MDs mystified about allowances, job cuts

Goldman Sachs' London MDs mystified about allowances, job cuts  eFinancialCareers

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6 d. ago Telecoms giant BT cuts another 5,000 jobs as broadband customers go elsewhere

Openreach broadband customers fell by 242,000 over the second quarter of 2025

Economics

7 d. ago ‘I’m never surprised when I read about a woman murdering a man’: Helen Garner on her Baillie Gifford prize

Her first book outraged Australian critics – but now she’s scooped the UK’s top nonfiction prize. She talks about female anger, becoming cool at 82 – and why winning made her feel like a stunned mulletWhen Helen Garner was announced as the winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction in London on Tuesday night, the 82-year-old Australian author was 16,000km away in Melbourne, watching the ceremony on a live stream at home on what was for her Wednesday morning. When the big moment came, she heard “the winner is ” – and then the feed froze. “We were going, ‘Oh God!’ Running around. We didn’t know what to do. The timing was like something in a comedy.” Congratulations immediately rushed in, which is how she knew she’d won the £50,000 (A$100,000) prize for How to End a Story, an 800-page collection of her astoundingly frank diaries, kept between 1978 and 1998.Garner is still grappling with her win when we speak a few hours later. “I’m a stunned mullet,” she says, sitting in her st...

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7 d. ago Wes Streeting warns of NHS staff facing a rising tide of ‘1970s

Mr Streeting urged patients not to take out their frustration on staff amid the challenges facing the NHS this winter.

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9 d. ago University of Dundee staff to strike again next week in job cuts row

University and College Union members are calling for compulsory redundancies to be ruled out.

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