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let's have a closer look at some of the recommendations. police officers have been offered 7%. consultants, dentists and gp's — 6%. junior doctors — 6%. prison officers 7%. the armed forces — 5%. teachers 6.5%. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! teachers protesting, education disrupted, classrooms empty. for months, pupils and parents in england have been caught up in an angry row between teaching unions and the government. but could a 6.5% pay rise, alongside this promise from the prime minister, bring an end to it? there will be more money going into the scho...

increases of between 5 and 7%. that comes after the government accepted recommendations from independent pay review bodies. prime minister rishi sunak said that — after months of public sector strikes — this was a final offer. further industrial action, he said, would not change that decision. all four teaching unions in england have recommended their members accept their offer and call off strikes. the announcement came as junior doctors began five days of strikes, what their union calls the longest strike action in the history of the nhs. they're demanding a pay increase, of 35...

year's annual bastille parade? and we will talk movies, a glut of new releases currently at the cinema, but if the actors join the writers on the hollywood picket line, what will winter look like at the box office? all that to come, but lets start, shall we, on a positive note. the four teaching unions in england have called off their proposed strikes, after the prime minister honoured the recommendations of the pay review bodies. rishi sunak has ruled out any further borrowing to increase the salaries of public sector workers, which means that today's announcement, which goes well b...

Maria callas is one of the most extraordinary and influentialfigures in the history of opera. Anima viva. You must serve music because music is so enormous and can envelop you into such a state of. Of perpetual anxiety and torture. When music fails to agree to the ear in other words, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses then it has missed its point. She enjoyed the Bright Lights of fame and endured its dark side. Her every word and move scrutinised by press and public. When a public loves you so much, you want to do so much more. They cant just applaud the legend if you dont give the...

new hormonal and chemotherapies. advances in radiotherapy. plus improvements in detection and public awareness. myrate mackenzie who's 69 and from surrey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 after finding a swelling under her arm. she's grateful for all her treatment, but remembers feeling very scared at the beginning. i had no idea what my future was going to be, you know, how long i was going to live, oranything, and i had the chemotherapy, then surgery, radiotherapy, drug therapy, so, the whole book thrown at me, but it's clearly worked. but there are concerns about the curren...