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Asda staff secure pay rise after strike threats with workers to get £10.10 an hour

Asda has just confirmed a pay rise for some 120,000 shop floor workers - but it isn’t the only grocer to up wages this year. Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Marks and Spencer have also increased the pay for basic rate workers

Daily Mirror · Apr 25, 2022

It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor

Gregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2022

PM backs Rees-Mogg’s ‘Dickensian’ approach to working from home, says No 10

Cabinet split emerges after minister Nadine Dorries criticises notes being left on empty civil servant desks

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2022

Three women and a man stabbed to death in south-east London

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2022

‘Lovely’ grandmother and three family members stabbed to death at home in south London

Tributes to ‘really close’ family as police question suspect over deaths of three women and one man

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2022

Southwark: Grandmother among four people stabbed to death in Bermondsey

‘Wonderful’ NHS worker in her 60s is first victim of London knife horror named

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2022

Maria Callas – Letters and Memoirs review: Monica Bellucci’s London stage debut is a Callas-tastrophe

Screen star Monica Bellucci is spectacularly wooden in this tedious meander through opera star Maria Callas’ personal scribblings, which make dull source material

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2022

Rightmove: ‘Frenzy’ in housing market as London prices hit new record high

Rising demand amid the return to city life means seven boroughs are enjoying double-digit growth and properties in the capital are selling the fastest they have in a year.

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2022

Penny Lancaster puts on leggy display on date night with husband Rod Stewart

The sun-kissed pair looked in good spirits as they posed for pictures on a date night in London.

Daily Record · Apr 25, 2022

Ten Percent review: British Call My Agent! is comme-ci, comme-ça

London is luvvie central - so why is the British remake so bumbling and stuffy?

Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2022