For nine months, Andrea C Martin has kept her head down. The new CEO of performance rights organisation PRS For Music is something of an unknown quantity to the music business, having come from outside the industry, via senior roles at Reader’s Digest, Royal Mail and ADT. She’s spent the …
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March 18 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening 136 points lower on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers. * HSBC: HSBC Holdings has appointed Noel Quinn as chief executive officer, handing the insider and interim boss the reins of Europe's biggest bank and ending months of speculation an …
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With Mother’s Day fast approaching but the government strongly advising us to curb non-essential social interactions due to the spread of coronavirus, it’s an even more challenging time when all we want is to be close to our loved ones. On Monday evening (16 March), Prime minister Boris Johnson told …
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Last of the Royal Navy WWII destroyer captains dies aged 105: Lieutenant Commander John Manners was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy sinking U-1274 three weeks before end of the war Lieutenant Commander John Manners, was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy Manners oversaw the sinking of German submarine U-1274 in April …
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In the past 24 hours, the death toll in Italy has increased by 345, taking the total number of coronavirus-related deaths past 2,500. In Spain the number of casualties increased by 182 overnight, pushing the total number of deaths close to 500. A new coronavirus tracker produced by the Financial Times …
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Tories are not willing to break with market logic (Pic: Flickr/Downing Street) There are no “market?based solutions” to saving hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people’s lives from coronavirus. We have to suspend capitalism. Resources from across society and the economy—whether car plants, corportate call centres, supermarkets or second homes—have to …
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Postal workers had voted in favour of industrial action over pay and conditions, but instead are offering to support people forced to self-isolate under the government’s new quarantine measures ’s () workers have voted strongly in favour of a national postal strike but, in view of Britain’s new social distancing measures to …
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Princess Diana would be ‘heartbroken’ over the state of Prince William and Prince Harry’s relationship, royal photographer tells Page Six Jayne Fincher has revealed how late Diana would react to recent Megxit drama Said she’d be ‘heartbroken’ over Prince Harry and Prince William’s relationship Told how Princess Diana would ‘be …
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A TEENAGE photography prodigy from Oxfordshire has won a prestigious nationwide accolade for the third time. Oxford schoolboy Alex White, who rose to fame across the county for his highly-skilled and up-close snaps of local wildlife, was crowned winner at the Young Mammal Photographer of the Year in the category …
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