Asda staff could be threatened with the sack if they don’t agree to a pay cut, according to the GMB union. The supermarket chain confirmed it was considering ending a 60p-per-hour supplement paid to some workers in the South East of England. They have been paid the extra money for many years to make up
The room in the homeless hostel is so small that there is barely enough room for two single beds. This is now home for 30 year-old Sammy and her six-year-old son Teddy after their world was turned upside down. When the bailiffs came to evict them from their flat last month, all they could do
The Walt Disney Company has announced it is scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida following a year-long dispute with Governor Ron DeSantis. Mr DeSantis has been attacking the company after it opposed a state law banning classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early years. Disney filed a First
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterMay 18, 2023, 03:29 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun If Sean O’Malley is to become the UFC’s bantamweight champion this summer, he’ll have to defeat the most dangerous bantamweight in the history of the sport — at least in
Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterMay 18, 2023, 11:48 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Nine-thousand, seven-hundred and thirty-one days. When the NASCAR All-Star Race drops the green flag on Sunday evening, that’s how long it will have been since
Harrison Ford has said he is “deeply moved and humbled” to receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The veteran American actor was presented with the accolade ahead of the world debut screening of his new film Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny on Thursday. The film sees the 80-year-old return
Samuel H. Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, speaks to media after meeting Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Prime Minister’s office in Tokyo on April 10, 2023. The Yomiuri Shimbun | AP OpenAI launched a ChatGPT iPhone app on Thursday, its CTO Mira Murati said on Twitter. An Android version is coming soon, she
Yamaha has just announced a new limited edition electric bicycle known as the 30th Anniversary Special Edition YDX-MORO 07. The launch celebrates Yamaha’s 30 years of e-bike building, which made the company the first to bring a production e-bike to market. Technically there are electric bicycle patents going back around a century, but most were
Wind turbines in the North Sea, off the coast of the Netherlands. As more wind farms are developed, the interaction between turbines and birds will become an increasingly important issue. Mischa Keijser | Image Source | Getty Images Offshore wind farms in the North Sea were recently “shut down” in a bid to protect migratory
“This is the first interview I have done on this movie, so it’s completely fresh – from here on out, I will have said everything.” That’s how Richard Gere started our chat about his latest film, Maybe I Do. Refreshingly honest, the star known for hit romcoms including Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride hasn’t done
Rishi Sunak will announce a ban on Russian diamonds coming to Britain as the prime minister and other G7 leaders step up sanctions against Putin. The diamond ban is part of a wider package of sanctions as the prime minister and allies use the annual G7 summit in Tokyo to redouble support for Ukraine. Sanctions
Paradromics Cortical Module Source: Padromics A fast-growing team of nearly 50 scientists and engineers at the neurotech startup Paradromics has captured the attention of federal regulators. Paradromics, founded in 2015, is developing a brain implant that could help patients with severe paralysis regain their ability to communicate by deciphering their neural signals. And on Thursday,
Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 18, 2023, 07:48 AM ET LOS ANGELES — DEVIN HANEY ROLLED into the back of his white Mercedes-Maybach SUV, and through a massive gold grill, he reminisced on everything he and his father Bill Haney had built. His security guard, Tank, took the wheel of the $170,000 vehicle as Haney departed the
The online party goods supplier founded by the Princess of Wales’s parents has been sold after it failed to avoid collapsing into administration. Sky News has learnt that Party Pieces Holdings, which was launched by Carole and Michael Middleton in 1987, was bought on Thursday by James Sinclair, an entrepreneur. Sources said the sale had
Rishi Sunak has confidently backed himself to remain prime minister for another term as he insisted the Conservatives were on track to win the next general election, despite an absolute drubbing in the local elections. Asked whether he would still be prime minister after the next general election, Mr Sunak replied: “Yes. I’m working really
Paul Cattermole, the singer with pop band S Club 7 who died last month aged 46, died from natural causes, a coroner has announced. Dorset Coroner’s Service revealed in a statement that there will be no inquest into Cattermole’s death as a result. The group’s founding member was found dead at his home in Dorset
A £10bn investment from water companies to stop sewage spills will be paid for by customers through “modest increases to their bills”. Ruth Kelly, chair of Water UK, told Sky News that water firms will provide a “huge multi-billion down-payment” to start “the biggest transformation project since Victorian times”. She added: “The way the system
Montana has become the first state in the US to ban Chinese-owned popular video-sharing platform TikTok from personal devices. The state’s Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed legislation prohibiting mobile application stores from offering the app. The legislation makes it illegal for app stores to offer TikTok, but does not prevent those who already have the
BT has revealed plans to significantly reduce the number of people working for the telecoms group as part of efforts to cut costs and bolster profitability. While outlining annual results, the company said it saw its “total labour resource” being reduced from 130,000 to between 75,000 and 90,000 by the end of the decade under
A plan by the UK to train Ukrainian pilots could impact the Royal Air Force’s ability to teach its own recruits, the incoming head of the RAF has indicated. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton admitted that details have yet to be finalised of the announcement by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak – made when Ukraine’s