Morgan Wallen has said goodbye to his signature mullet and mustache — but only for now.
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The UK Government has said it has "no plans" to increase the number of overseas worker visas available for HGV and bus drivers despite firms struggling to recruit staff.
First Bus claimed a lack of staff was part of the reason that the company announced it planned to axe its night services in Glasgow next month.
Prisoner escort service GEOAmey also blamed a "challenging labour market" after failing custody arrangements caused court delays last week.
But Tory immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the Government would not be introducing more visas because "these occupations are not eligible" under the UK's immigration system due to their skill level.
HGV and public service vehicle drivers are also not on the shortage occupation list. Visa rules are eased for the industries on the list.
Jenrick was responding to a question from Alba MP Kenny MacAskill.
He said: "The Government has no plans to increase the number of visas available for HGV and public service vehicle drivers, as these occupations are not eligible under the Points Based System.
"The Government’s position is that employers should invest in recruitment from the resident workforce, which includes UK workers and migrants with general work rights, for jobs with relatively short training requirements.
"The independent Migratory Advisory Committee (MAC) is currently reviewing the Shortage Occupation List (SOL), which involves extensive consultation with industry. The MAC will report its recommendations in the Autumn, after which the Government will consider its position.
"As per the Government’s commissioning letter to the MAC last year, inclusion on the SOL for jobs which do not meet the skills threshold should only be considered in exceptional circumstances, such as when
Morgan Wallen has said goodbye to his signature mullet and mustache — but only for now.
Jenna Bush Hager has babies on the brain. The showhost is opening up about whether she and husband Henry Chase Hager plan to have more kids. «It's sort of time for me to have another baby,» Jenna said on Tuesday's episode of, telling guest co-host Sheinelle Jones that her youngest son had recently turned four years old.
A four-day strike by bus drivers in Greater Manchester is due to start on Friday, an operator has confirmed.
The driver of a double-decker bus suffered a medical episode moments before a major crash in Manchester city centre, the Manchester Evening News understands.
More than a month since first walking out, bus drivers who face 'daily abuse' have been making their voices heard. Unite the Union members working for First Manchester have today (Friday, August 4) walked out in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Busan International Film Festival has announced the 30 projects selected for this year’s Asian Project Market (APM), including new projects from leading Asian filmmakers such as Japan’s Koji Fukada, Indonesia’s Makbul Mubarak and India’s Rima Das.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Busan film festival’s Asian Project Market is set to welcome several of the region’s top auteurs either as producers or prospective directors at its next edition in October. APM organizers Thursday unveiled 30 projects to be presented during a four-day round of one-on-one meetings and pitching sessions. India’s Rima Das (“Tora’s Husband”) will pitch “Malti My Love.” Japan’s Fukada Koji (“Love Life,” “Harmonium”) will pitch “Nagi Notes.” Indonesia’s Makbul Mubarak (“Autobiography”) will pitch “Watch It Burn.” Among the successful producers adding their weight to APM contenders are: Patrick Mao Huang (“Moneyboys,” “Tiger Stripes”) selling Peter Ho’s project “Appetite for Desire”; Jeremy Chua (“Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” “Autobiography”), pitching Rafael Manuel’s “Filipinana”; Ichiyama Shozo (“Ash Is Puirest White”) pitching Song Fang’s Japan-China collaboration “Full Moon”; Fran Borgia (“A Land Imagined,” “Tiger Stripes”) pitching Aakash Chhabra’s “I’ll Smile in September”; and Tan Chui Mui (“Barbarian Invasion”) pitching Jian Xiaoshuan’s “To Kill A Mongolian Horse.” The project market and the Asian Contents & Film Market are both scheduled to operate Oct.
Jessica Chastain is getting real about her friendship with Oscar Isaac.In a new interview with Vanity Fair (done before the SAG-AFTRA strike) the actress opened up about how her relationship with her longtime friend changed after they worked alongside each other on HBO's .While speaking about letting go of roles after she is finished playing the character, the 46-year-old revealed that after playing a role so intense and close with Isaac, she needed a breather.«I mean, was very tough. And I love Oscar [Isaac], but the reality is, our friendship has never quite been the same. We're going to be okay, but after that, I was like, I need a little bit of a breather,» she told the magazine.
Prince Harry and Meghan have appeared together for the first time since their New York car chase incident in May.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac set social media on fire in 2021 due to their electric chemistry on the Venice Film Festival red carpet for HBO’s “Scenes From a Marriage.” The devastating limited series, based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 miniseries of the same name, cast the two actors as a married couple going through a grueling divorce. Chastain told Vanity Fair her and Isaac’s longtime friendship hasn’t been the same since. “‘Scenes From a Marriage’ was very tough,” Chastain said.
Jessica Chastain opened up about how filming Scenes From a Marriage affected her longtime friendship with Oscar Isaac.
Scenes From A Marriage.Based on the 1973 Swedish series of the same name, the HBO remake examines the break-up between married couple Jonathan Levy (Isaac) and Mira Phillips (Chastain). It marked an on-screen reunion for the pair, who previously starred together in 2014 film A Most Violent Year.Speaking in an interview with Vanity Fair, Chastain described how shooting the series had an impact on her friendship with Isaac. “I mean, Scenes From A Marriage was very tough,” she said.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is wrecking all sorts of records. To celebrate, she’s making sure that everyone involved with the show’s making is happy and paid well for their contributions, granting million dollar bonuses to her entire crew. The reason Meghan Markle wrote Taylor Swift a personal letter: reportWatch the 10 Best Celebrity TikToks of the Week: Britney Spears, Shakira, Kylie Jenner, and moreRauw Alejandro lights up the stage in Monterrey: PhotosA post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)Swift has been granting $100,000 bonuses to the bus drivers charged with transporting her sound and stage equipment all over the country, reports TMZ.
Jenna Bush Hager and her family had one sweet reunion!On Tuesday's, the host shared a video of the moment her family was reunited with her 10-year-old daughter, Mila, after her time at sleepaway camp in Texas. «My weekend was great, I went down to Texas, and we got our girl back,» Hager told told Hoda Kotb after she asked her about her weekend. «Yes, we picked her up from camp.» Jenna traveled to Texas to pick up her 10-year-old daughter Mila from summer camp and they reunited with a big hug.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Asia Contents Awards, held as part of the Busan International Film Festival since 2019, is to join forces with the Global OTT Awards to form a wider-reaching event. The merged events are to be known under the ungainly abbreviation ACA & G.OTT Awards and will be co-hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City authorities. The ceremony will be held in Busan on Sunday Oct.
Julie Chrisley’s prison has some reptilian inmates according to her children, Savannah and Chase Chrisley.
Is the alien invasion… already upon us?!
It sounds like Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie Chrisley are both going through it right now in their respective prisons.
Two years ago actress Charley Webb left ITV’s soap Emmerdale after a whopping 19 years on the show and has just revealed she’s landed a brand-new role in a touring play. Charley, 35, appeared as the popular character Debbie Dingle who arrived in the village in 2002 and was on and off screen until 2021. During that time, Charley took three maternity leave breaks to have her sons, Buster, Bowie and Ace who she shared with husband and fellow actor Matthew Wolfenden, 43, who plays David Metcalfe in Emmerdale.
**Spoiler alert: There’s no way to really discuss this documentary without spoilers, at least for me, so be forewarned, and if you don’t want to be spoiled, please watch “The Deepest Breath” doc first.** Thanks in part to filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin— the directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo” and daring extreme adventuring and peril docs like “Meru,” “The Rescue,” “Wild Life”— plus the recent thriving docu-drama engagement boon on streaming, athletes pushing themselves to the limits and beyond have seemingly entered a new golden age.