If you hate showing your face while videoconferencing, just claim you want to save the environment. A new study indicates turning off your camera during an hour-long Zoom session can save up to three gallons of water and an area of land about the size of an iPad Mini. Streaming Hulu or Netflix on standard … Read more
Morrisons announces it will become first British supermarket to pay staff £10 an hour in boost for 96,000 workers Retail trade union Usdaw negotiated a £10 an hour basic rate for workers It brings wages 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate Asda has confirmed it will not be offering its workers … Read more
Morrisons announces it will become first British supermarket to pay staff £10 an hour in boost for 96,000 workers Retail trade union Usdaw negotiated a £10 an hour basic rate for workers It brings wages 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate Asda has confirmed it will not be offering its workers … Read more
Jane Garvey has revealed she left Woman’s Hour because she was getting too ‘cosy’ – adding that she has always found Radio 4 listeners a ‘puzzling breed.’ The broadcaster, 56, signed off her final show after 13 years on January 1 – declaring that it ‘needs to move on and now it can’ – and … Read more
Legal aid barrister, 27, who went to state school and put herself through university reveals she now earns LESS than minimum wage for working 19-hour days Alejandra Llorente Tascon, 27, from London, is a criminal defence barrister After expenses says earns less than national minimum wage of £8.72 per hour Says lawyers are ‘turning their backs’ … Read more
An actress refused to appear on Woman’s Hour this morning after accusing host Emma Barnett of making ‘degrading and vile’ comments about her. Kelechi Okafor was set to talk on the BBC Radio 4 show to discuss the #MeToo movement with new presenter Emma Barnett. But as the programme was live on air, the British … Read more
The Queen sends her ‘best wishes’ to mark the 75th year of the BBC’s Woman’s Hour and thanks the show for playing a ‘significant part in the evolving role of women across society’ Her Majesty, 94, sent message to mark 75th year of the BBC’s Woman’s Hour Told how it ‘played a significant part in evolving … Read more
Armed police storm flat near The Shard in south London and arrest man after eight hour stand-off Officers were called to flat on Great Dover Street, Southwark, at 2.12pm Saturday Several residents were evacuated from their homes in the area as a precaution A man was arrested on suspicion of affray and threat to commit criminal … Read more
Samantha Armytage tied the knot with millionaire businessman Richard Lavender on New Year’s Eve, at his sprawling country property in Bowral, NSW. And on Saturday, it was reported that the quaint ceremony was kept under wraps until the ‘eleventh hour’ – and none of Sam’s Sunrise co-hosts attended her big day. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Private … Read more
‘The show needs to move on and now it can’: Parting shot as Jane Garvey leaves Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour after 13 years and Emma Barnett takes over Jane Garvey signed off from Woman’s Hour saying show needs to ‘move on’ Emma Barnett, 35, will take over the Radio 4 staple, on air since 1946 … Read more