Today in the House of Commons, Conservative MPs talked out a bill that would have stopped companies using fire and rehire tactics. The Bill, brought be Labour’s Barry Gardiner MP, sought to address the practice used by companies to fire workers and re-employ them on lower pay with poorer conditions.Continue Reading
Southend-on-Sea is to be accorded the status of city in honour of David Amess. On October 18, 2021, three days after the Conservative MP was murdered in his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Boris Johnson announced the Queen had agreed to the grant. Seeing Southend acquire this new label had longContinue Reading
GOOD MORNING FOOTY FANS SunSport can exclusively reveal Romelu Lukaku faces a month out – dealing Chelsea a serious blow in the title race. The club’s record £97.5million signing twisted his ankle during Wednesday’s 4-0 Champions League win over Malmo. And he now faces three to four weeks on the sidelinesContinue Reading
Picual has an obvious opportunity, by process of elimination! Picual is the sole Sir Michael Stoute-trained declaration in a seven-runner Fillies’ Novice Stakes over seven furlongs of Newcastle tapeta tonight and should ‘build’ sufficiently on an encouraging ‘quiet’ debut to prevail under champion all-weather jockey Richard Kingscote. Originally my selectionContinue Reading
CHELSEA have ‘no intention’ of making Saul Niguez’s loan move a permanent one and are instead exploring different targets for next summer. Saul signed late on transfer deadline day, with the Blues having the option to sign the 26-year-old permanently at the end of the season. 2 Saul has struggledContinue Reading
Evelyn Jung/Shutterstock According to the recent House of Commons report on the UK’s pandemic response, one of the government’s key failings was to assume that the success of countries like South Korea in controlling the virus couldn’t be replicated in Britain. This decision to ignore approaches that were proving successfulContinue Reading
The Government is concerned about the trajectory of Covid-19 heading into the winter months, the Taoiseach has said. Speaking on the fringes of the EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Micheál Martin said the country is beginning to witness the “seasonal backdrop” to the disease. Many virologists have suggested thatContinue Reading
On Sunday 24 October the White Ensign will once again fly over Exeter when the Exeter Flotilla commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar at its 11:45 Service in Exeter Cathedral. The Service will be attended by the Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, Admiral Chris Snow, the High Sheriff of Devon, Lady Lucy Studholme,Continue Reading
Egg-ceptional MULTI-AWARD-WINNING, high welfare free range eggs! Owners Sharon and Andrew Jeffery photographed with late Poultry Industry Hero Winston Westcott Sharon and Andrew Jeffery, owners of Little Hollacombe Farm, pride themselves in raising their hens to lay only the best eggs. Following excellent welfare practices, the Jefferys have been awardedContinue Reading
Review at a glance Never mind the shark – in this show about the troubled shoot for classic blockbuster Jaws, it’s Ian Shaw that you need to see. Playing his father, Robert Shaw – aka Quint, the world-weary shark hunter – he gives what is undoubtedly one of the bestContinue Reading
