Good Morning Britain viewers were left feeling emotional thanks to one guests' appearance on the programme. Charlotte Hawkins was back hosting the ITV news show on Thursday (August 11) alongside Adil Ray who replaced Richard Madeley in the hot seat.
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Strike action could take place in almost every job sector in the coming months as the nation continues to be gripped by the cost of living crisis, a leading academic has warned.
Mass walk-outs have already been staged by railway workers, bus drivers, postal workers and barristers in Greater Manchester and the rest of the country, in disputes over pay and working conditions - with more unions understood to be balloting workers.
As the UK inflation rate soared to 9.4pc this week, workers are continuing to vote overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, as unions argue pay offers are failing to offset the cost of living.
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And as the energy price cap is set to rise by another £800 in October, a psychology professor at the University of Manchester predicts that thousands more workers in both the public and private sector will ballot for strike action in the coming weeks and months.
Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology, has warned the current situation - branded by many as the summer of discontent - is likely to cause more disruption than the widespread industrial action seen during the 1970s.
Simultaneous strike action like this has rarely been since the winter of discontent, when thousands of workers revolted against the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan's attempt to impose a five per cent cap on pay rises to curb inflation in 1978.
It proved to be a catastrophic move which resulted in disputes which went on so long and had such an impact they seem unbelievable today, M.E.N Chief Reporter Neal Keeling wrote last year as he looked back at the era.
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Good Morning Britain viewers were left feeling emotional thanks to one guests' appearance on the programme. Charlotte Hawkins was back hosting the ITV news show on Thursday (August 11) alongside Adil Ray who replaced Richard Madeley in the hot seat.
JYP Entertainment, the agency behind K-pop acts TWICE, ITZY, Stray Kids and more, plans to begin releasing digital-only albums in an effort to reduce its environmental impact.This is according to the agency’s 2021 ESG (environmental, social, and governance) Report, released earlier this month. In it, JYP Entertainment says that the company is currently looking into reducing waste associated with physical album purchases by digitally distributing songs, behind-the-scenes content, lyric and photo books instead.Fans purchasing albums from the agency in the future will only receive physical photo cards while being granted access to all other included material through QR codes and NFCs.
Fans are still mourning the loss of Olivia Newton-John, who passed away this week at the age of 73.
For the second season of The Witcher, costume designer Lucinda Wright wanted to bring in more realism to the armor. The Witcher follows Geralt (Henry Cavill), a mutated monster slayer known as a witcher, as he seeks to protect his surrogate daughter Ciri (Freya Allan) from the monsters and people that hunt her. Wright joined the series in the second season and began to build upon the design groundwork that was established in the first season. She is nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes category, and the series is Emmy-nominated for its Visual Effects and Stunt Coordination as well.
HBO’s Game of Thrones‘ prequel series, House of the Dragon, is set to debut in a few weeks on August 21!
Tom Wright, whose wide career embraced photography of many rock greats and time spent as a tour manager for The Who and other major acts, has died. He was 78 and details on where and the cause were not immediately available.
Carson Burton This winter, snow is coming to Los Angeles — Jon Snow, that is.The first ever “Game of Thrones” official fan convention will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Dec. 9-11 and feature fan-favorite stars, engaging panel discussions and exclusive merchandise as well as cosplay and trivia competitions.Kit Harington is now joining the previously announced “Game of Thrones” stars, including Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon), Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Giantsbane), Kristian Nairn (Hodor), Daniel Portman (Podrick Payne), Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy) and Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark).
While it remains to be seen if Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark will truly stay dead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the narrative move was undoubtedly shocking to many audience members, given how beloved Stark and Downey was to fans. While everyone at Marvel obviously agreed it was the right move, one person really was against killing the character: Jon Favreau, who directed “Iron Man” in 2008, successfully launching the MCU and playing Happy Hogan in the Marvel Universe.
After winning praise for Almost Australian, actor Miriam Margolyes is back on TV screens with her new docuseries Australia Unmasked on ABC. The first episode sees Margolyes taking part in her first ever Pride parade in Hobart, with renowned Tasmanian LGBTQI activist Rodney Croome. “It was a privilege to have Miriam Margolyes highlight how Tasmania has gone from worst to best on LGBTIQA+ human rights,” Croome tweeted after the episode was broadcast.In her journey of unmasking Australia’s cultural crumbs, Margolyes arrives in Tasmania in the first episode. Not only does she get a chance to communicate with and unpack intricacies in the lives of Aboriginal Australian, but she also stumbles upon Croome in Ulverstone – a town of 15000 people at the mouth of Leven River.
Riot Games – the developer behind Valorant and League Of Legends – has shared that “nearly every game” that the company makes will be competitive with “some sort of esports component to it”.At the launch of Riot’s Project Stryker broadcast centre in Dublin, Needham spoke to NME about the company’s plans to incorporate esports into future Riot titles – including Project Lion, an upcoming fighting game.“If you look at Riot’s games, almost all of our games are competitive games, with varying levels of whether they’d be good sports or not,” said Needham. “We’ve talked about Lion publicly, obviously esports is a really core part of the fighting game community, so we’ll be investing there.”“But all the games that Riot produces, we really look at games that can span generations.
JYP Entertainment, home to top acts like TWICE, ITZY and Stray Kids, is teaming up with Republic Records to debut a new North American girl group, holding auditions in the US this September.On July 25, the two agencies unveiled a video featuring JYP Entertainment founder and chairman Park Jin-young and Republic Records’ founder and CEO Monte Lipman announcing their upcoming venture ‘A2K’.“The name of this project is ‘A2K’, which is an abbreviation of ‘America2Korea’. So the final artist that comes out of this procedure will be the first American artist made out of a K-pop system,” said Park.“It’s like talented artists who goes through a training system like an Olympic gymnast will go through,” he added.
Elliott Wright and his wife Sadie have reflected on “the hardest year” which saw the couple go through a miscarriage, along with dealing with the death of Elliott’s dad in March 2021 and the former TOWIE star’s restaurant being burnt down just weeks later.The pair wed in 2017, and went on to welcome son Billy in January 2019. Elliott, 41, also shares two children from his previous marriage: Elliott Jr, 15, and daughter Olivia, 13. In light of the difficult times they’ve faced of late, Elliott and Sadie spoke to OK! Online about how they’ve been doing, and credited their families – their kids in particular – for getting them through.