INPP makes digital infrastructure commitment - International Public Partnerships (INPP), the FTSE 250 infrastructure investment company, has committed jointly with HM Government to make an investment in digital infrastructure and particularly fibre optic broadband connections. It sees long term parallels between the essential nature of broadband connectivity to the home and ...
This is a full list of the MP’s who voted against an amendment to end the public sector pay cap imposed since 2010 and halt further emergency services cuts. Last night Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s ...
By Linda Marric For an animation film primarily aimed at children, Spark: A Space Tale seems to spend an unusual amount of time trying to please its adult viewers. With multiple attempts at referencing anything from Stars Wars to WALL·E ( Andrew Stanton, 2008), director Aaron Wooley tries his very ...
It breathes many breaths, beats as one heart. Maureen Beattie as the woman appears to be a woman lost. Lost in the circles of people who swirl around her like personified nuclei, lost in her own nuclear reactor and the forces of life it connects her to, but which she ...
It was my first day on the job but that wasn't unusual as it was everybody's first day on the job at MAYOUT, an organisation so new that we hadn't even worked out just what the letters in MAYOUT stood for as an acronym. Jenkins, who had come to us ...
Andrew Scott is a lean and yet crumpled waif of a Hamlet who looks like he buys his clothes from Zara. Appearances are deceptive and helpless innocence isn’t everything though. As he waits as Angus Wright’s Claudius ignores his nephew in favour of Luke Thompson’s more buoyant Laertes he becomes ...
Here is a list of Labour MPs and how they voted on Trident renewal, the final vote in the Commons was 472 votes in favour against 117 against, so the margin was very large. Out of the Labour members 140 voted for the renewal of the controversial nuclear deterrent renewal. ...
Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith appears to have dropped himself in hot water with comments he made during a TV interview. Smith declared himself “normal” as he has three children and a wife. However, he has come under criticism, and been compared to Andrea Leadsom who believed she had the ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The on-line voting registration system had crashed, EU citizens had wrongly been given polling cards and both sides have predicted the world will end on the 23rd June depending on which box you tick. So unsurprisingly the EU referendum led today’s session. At one stage ...