The soaring cost of weddings and property are forcing couples to choose between the two. The average wedding bill was £20,700 last year, according to a survey of 1,808 couples by the wedding website Hitched, up 12.5% on the year before. With high house prices and soaring wedding costs, many are realising that they can’t have both. So which comes first?
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Unilever is planning to cut up to 3,200 office jobs in Europe as its new chief executive presses ahead with a drastic restructuring of the consumer goods powerhouse. The maker of Marmite, which employs 128,000 people globally, told staff that it would cut a third of its roles in Europe by the end of next year. It employs between 10,000 and 11,000 office-based staff in Europe. The job cuts form part of Unilever’s “productivity programme”, announced in March, that includes removing as many as 7,500 roles internationally and aims to save the company about €800m over the next three years
Unilever to cut 3,200 jobs in Europe
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants to launch rockets 25 times a year from its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. The US Federation Aviation Administration has received the request from SpaceX, which at present has permission for up to five launches a year
Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for more launches
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: An ambitious cross-party taskforce into the future of social care is being planned by Labour to create a “broad consensus” on fixing a failing system. Baroness Casey of Blackstock, the veteran Whitehall troubleshooter, has been lined up to lead a royal commission into social care which is expected to include representatives from the main political parties. The plan had been considered for next week’s King’s Speech, but is now thought unlikely to be ready in time
Labour plans cross-party royal commission to fix social care
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🔺 BREAKING: Alec Baldwin broke down in tears as the involuntary manslaughter case against him unravelled in extraordinary fashion and the judge dismissed the charges after serious failures on behalf of the prosecution. Tap below to read more: https://lnkd.in/eYXyEzN5
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🔎 Analysis: Joe Biden’s political standing is rapidly diminishing over concerns that he is not fit enough to run for a second term as president. With only a few months to salvage the campaign, here are the four plausible scenarios that have emerged as the party debates Biden’s political future
Should he stay or should he go? Four scenarios for Joe Biden
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Some 627 children were being treated in the hospital — receiving radiotherapy, chemotherapy, blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants — when the eight Tu-95M bombers fired 25 missiles at the Ukrainian capital. Most of the missiles were shot down by the city’s defenders, as air raid sirens rang out to urge the population to take cover. But four of the missiles evaded interception after heading west and then looping back towards the city. Ukrainian hospital staff recall the horror as the air raid sirens wailed out and missile struck
The children were mid-chemotherapy session when Putin’s bombs fell
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I played for England teams packed with footballers who were among the best in the world, whose mentalities helped them win the lot at club level. But none even reached a semi-final. And now we’re in a second final in three tournaments. Every England player of my generation understands just how much credit Gareth Southgate and his squad deserve for that. What has made the difference? A little luck and a lot of hard work. My England sides lost three quarter-finals on penalties, which was unfortunate — but we also didn’t do the research on shoot-outs that Gareth and his staff have done. "But the biggest difference is the absence of fear | ✍️ Wayne Rooney
How England can beat Spain – and why Kobbie Mainoo can get the winner
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When Eton announced it would open state sixth forms in Dudley, Oldham and Middlesbrough, it was not soon enough for Mahmoud Bah Bah. Mahmoud, 15, has attended a residential summer school at Eton this week, one of almost 60 teenagers from the three towns taking a course that aims to increase confidence in skills such as public speaking. The new sixth forms will not open by the time he starts A-levels so he intends to apply for a scholarship place at Eton — 115 miles from his home near Dudley — and then to study engineering and maths at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Neither of Mahmoud’s parents went to university: his father works in housekeeping at a hospital and his mother at a hotel
‘It’s like Hogwarts. I was blown away.’ Eton opens up to state pupils
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has said Gareth Southgate’s critics should apologise for “insulting and ridiculing” the best manager England have ever had. Ceferin said he was amazed by the treatment handed out to Southgate during Euro 2024, and predicted a “great final” between England and Spain in Berlin on Sunday
Uefa president: Ridicule of Gareth Southgate has been shameful
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