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Nearly 10,000 Bristol jobs to be created by 2023, study finds
Bristol’s economy is expected to fall out of the UK’s regional top 10 but still expand by £500m and add almost 10,000 new jobs by the end of next year, according to a new report. The city has been predicted to see year-on-year growth of 2% in the fourth quarter of 2023 in terms of …
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Hundreds of roles available at huge jobs fair for Manchester Airport
Hundreds of jobs based at Manchester Airport will be available at a huge jobs fair next week. Wythenshawe Forum will host the event from 10am to 1pm on Tuesday, May 24. Manchester Airports Group has arranged the event in partnership with Manchester City Council, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Manchester Airport Academy. …
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Evening Standard
Little Lion’s Tom Lionetti-Maguire: The actor who blagged his way into an immersive theatre hit
Seven years ago, Tom Lionetti- Maguire was working as a jobbing actor — including becoming the face of Skyn condoms in France — when he scored a role in an immersive show, Heist, where the audience was induced to commit robbery.The show changed his life: “I saw first-hand that people were losing their minds for …
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Tech firm aims to boost charitable giving
A Lichfield firm whose platform helps customers donate to charities while they shop has launched new technology. Users of Easyfundraising can opt to give money to charities by shopping via one of its affiliate links. If they do that then the retailer in the question will give a proportion of the sale to a customer’s …
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Forget the glamour of TV series The Split legal work lends itself very well to working from home.
Over two years since Covid 19 first triggered a mass overnight experiment into working from home for office-based workers, many employers have now introduced permanent home working or hybrid working. Turns out, contrary to what any number of employers thought when refusing flexible working requests, working from home productively is entirely possible. Earlier this month, …
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Channel 4 launches South West scheme to find new TV writers
Channel 4 has launched an initiative to find new TV drama writers in the South West of England. The C4 TV Drama New Writers Scheme (West and South West) was devised by the broadcaster’s Bristol hub in collaboration with Bristol UNESCO City of Film and its partners – BFI NETWORK (delivered regionally in the South …
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Evening Standard
Ryanair boss warns on rising costs for summer beach flights
RYANAIR’S Covid-related losses soared past £1 billion today as it warned the cost of holiday flights will jump this summer as exhausted Brits seek out Europeanbeaches.The low cost airline made a loss of e355 million for the year to March. That £302 million hit comes atop £860 million lost last year, taking the total for …
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Sky News
Drive to reduce Russian diesel forces UK pump costs to new record high
The average price of a litre of diesel has hit a new record high, according to industry data, signalling further financial pressure on households and businesses alike amid the deteriorating cost of living crisis.Motoring group the AA said petrol costs were also now just 1p a litre shy of striking their highest ever level as …
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Work more hours or get a better job to cope with price rises, minister urges
A government minister has suggested that people struggling with the cost of living could take on more hours or move to a better-paid job.Rachel Maclean, the safeguarding minister, told Sky News’ Kay Burley that those were some of the ways households could “protect themselves” as prices soar. Downing Street defended her after opposition parties sharply …
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‘Things are going to get tougher’ warns energy regulator over fears prices could rise quicker
The energy price cap, the mechanism that determines gas and electricity bills for 22 million households, could soon be reviewed every three months under plans announced by the industry regulator.Ofgem revealed that it was putting the idea out to consultation after criticism that the present twice-yearly adjustment arrangement – in April and October – had …
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‘Things are going to get tougher’, warns energy regulator over fears prices could rise quicker
The energy price cap, the mechanism that determines gas and electricity bills for 22 million households, could soon be reviewed every three months under plans announced by the industry regulator.Ofgem revealed that it was putting the idea out to consultation after criticism that the present twice-yearly adjustment arrangement – in April and October – had …
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Johnson and Irish foreign minister share hope for ‘landing zone’ on protocol before crisis talks
The prime minister is expected in Northern Ireland today as efforts to break the political deadlock at Stormont intensify.Boris Johnson will hold talks with party leaders and attempt to persuade the Democratic Unionists to enter the power sharing government. Sinn Fein is now the largest party but its vice president, Michelle O’Neill, cannot become first …

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