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Some five days into the new year, the average chief executive of the UK’s biggest companies will have earned as much as the average worker in the country will make for the whole of 2023, new research suggests. Data from the High Pay Centre indicated on Thursday that by 2pm, bosses of FTSE 100 companies will have earned an average of £33,000 so far this year. This is the same […]

Homophobic chanting from some Nottingham Forest fans during the Premier League match against Chelsea on New Year’s Day is being looked at by the Crown Prosecution Service. Chelsea’s official LGBTQ+ supporters group, Chelsea Pride, tweeted during the match to “totally condemn” the ‘Chelsea rent boy’ chants at the City Ground. Forest said they were investigating the matter in a statement issued at full-time. The CPS now recognises ‘rent boy’ as […]

Taylor Swift is set to take home the first number one album of 2023 in the UK with Midnights. The 33-year-old American singer-songwriter’s tenth studio album is on track to secure a fourth non-consecutive week at the top, according to Official Charts Company. The album, released in October, immediately broke a string of records, including becoming Spotify’s most streamed album in a single day and previously had another number one […]

Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife were subjected to a knifepoint robbery while at home with their children – with one masked raider threatening to stab the athlete, a court heard. The intruders made off with two Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000 respectively, during the raid in the Ongar area of Essex, Chelmsford Crown Court was told. Cavendish and his wife Peta were in bed with […]

The Bees are now 7th in the Premier League table, two points behind Liverpool Liverpool’s poor defending cost them dearly as Brentford claimed another famous scalp with a 3-1 victory. An Ibrahima Konate own goal and Yoane Wissa’s header put the Bees in control, prompting angry Reds boss Jurgen Klopp to substitute key defender Virgil van Dijk at half-time. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain pulled one back but Bryan Mbeumo killed the Reds […]

More than 100 road traffic officers and control room operators working for National Highways across England will launch a 48-hour strike on Tuesday. The walkout by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) is part of industrial action in a bitter dispute over pay, pensions and jobs. Around 100,000 PCS members working in 124 government departments and other bodies have voted for strike action. PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka […]

Cristiano Ronaldo will be presented as an Al Nassr player in Riyadh at 1600GMT on Tuesday. The 37-year-old former Real Madrid, Manchester United and Juventus star has flown to Saudi Arabia to undergo a medical before his first public appearance in the club’s colours at the 30,000-seater stadium Mrsool Park at 1900 local time. “All eyes on Riyadh as the world’s greatest @Cristiano will be unveiled in Al Nassr colours […]

James Norton has hailed Happy Valley as a “revolutionary” programme for pioneering layered, female-led stories on screen. The 37-year-old actor stars as notorious villain Tommy Lee Royce in the BBC One drama, which is set to return for a third and final series on New Year’s Day. Speaking to the Sunday Times Culture magazine, Norton reflected on the impact of the show, which is written by Sally Wainwright and follows […]

The pressure on the NHS is “equivalent” to that of the early stage of the pandemic, a leading health official has said. Saffron Cordery, interim chief executive of NHS Providers, said that now the pressure is coming from various directions, including staff shortages, lack of investment, a worn-out workforce and a backlog of operations, as well as a continuation of Covid and flu cases. She told the PA news agency: […]