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Ministers threaten to withhold cash from English councils on four-day week

Councils pursuing a four-day working week are being threatened with financial penalties by the government amid an increasingly bitter row between ministers and town halls over post-pandemic working practices. After announcing a £4bn cash injection to support councils in England amid a worsening crisis for local authorities, the government said …

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‘Takes me back to Twiggy’: hundreds queue for H&M Paco Rabanne launch in London

Forget fairy lights and tinsel. Judging by the launch of Paco Rabanne’s collaboration with H&M, it is party guests in paillette-disc miniskirts, chainmail dresses and mesh tops who hope to shine brightest this festive season. Hundreds of people queued, many from the early hours of the morning, outside H&M’s store …

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Sam Bankman-Fried denies messy hair part of ‘tech genius’ persona during trial

Sam Bankman-Fried testified in his own blockbuster crypto trial again Monday, with prosecutors grilling the one-time crypto mogul about the many discrepancies between his public and private claims about crypto-exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried appeared to have had a haircut over the weekend, just in time for prosecutors to start their cross …

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