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Phoebe, 21, moved to New York last year to study and pursue a modelling career. Months later, Tess and Vernon Kay announced they had split after 22 years of marriage.

Thursday the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios filed unfair labor complaints against Microsoft over the layoffs of 1,600 employees. The gaming news site Aftermath says the complaints allege unlawful action: "Xbox management is required to bargain with the union over the decision of layoffs prior to implementing them during the status quo period, and we are pursuing every available avenue to protect our members," a Communications Workers of America spokesperson said in a statement to Aftermath... Speaking to Game Developer, CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth elaborated on the unions' misgivings... "Basically the employer cannot arbitrarily change working conditions while it is engaged in negotiating with the union. We will continue to file legal challenges if necessary, and do all we can to defend the rights of Bethesda Game Studios workers...." "I'm very proud of the hard work the bargaining committees and CWA staff have put in to evaluate the legality of how the layoffs were conducted," a current id Software employee and union member told Aftermath. "It's important, even for the world's largest and most profitable companies, that there are consequences for violating federal labor law. If we hadn't explored this avenue to hold Microsoft accountable, it would be a sign to all other game executives that they can break the law and get away with it." Legal action is just one part of unions' larger effort to hold Microsoft accountable for its decision to lay off thousands of workers. This week, CWA also hosted a series of "Save Our Devs" demonstrations outside the offices of affected studios like Zenimax, id Software, Bethesda, and Obsidian.

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Sam Neill was one of the world's most recognisable actors, but away from the cameras his greatest pride was his family.

Frank (pictured), who has amassed a huge social media following, was left gleefully astonished after riders gave him a ceremonial 'Eyes Left' recognition.

Out of 20 guest appearances on Radio 4's Politically: Ten Years After Brexit, just one spoke of positive outcomes from the 2016 referendum.

He has since met the team that saved his life

The LIV Golf star had threatened to not continue competing at the major championship in the wake of being assessed a two-stroke penalty in contentious scenes following Friday's round.

His dashingly good looks and great physique even landed him the cover of the first ever issue of Men's Fitness in 1987.

Last year just 0.6% of new vehicles made for U.S. customers were stick shifts, reports the Washington Post, citing preliminary government data. "That's a precipitous drop from the 34.6 percent of vehicles with manual transmissions produced in 1980." [T]he stick shift's popularity hit multiple new lows in recent years, with no signs of a turnaround, thanks to new technologies and a rapidly changing marketplace. Buyers and automakers increasingly have turned to the sophisticated automatic drivetrains that now smoothly swap gears in fractions of a second and with better fuel efficiency. The average new vehicle today comes with seven gears, thanks to computers, twice as many as in 1980 and more gears than any ordinary driver would want to shift through using a manual gearbox. At the same time, sporty cars — the kind that buyers might demand a stick shift to drive — have fallen out of favor, replaced by interest in hulking SUVs, which are almost always automatics. The stick shift's demise has been hastened, too, by the rise of electric vehicles and increasingly autonomous vehicles. Neither have any need for a manual transmission... Europe has seen a less dramatic decline in stick shifts, with manual transmissions dropping from 91 percent of car registrations in 2001 to 29 percent in 2024 among Europe's largest auto markets, according to industry analyst JATO Dynamics... Subaru made its name with manual cars. But the Japanese automaker stopped offering a manual Crosstrek with the 2023 model year, having already dropped that transmission from its Legacy, Outback and Forester models. Other automakers have followed the same path. Volkswagen announced that it plans this year to ditch its last U.S. stick-shift model, the Jetta GLI. Even Toyota, Honda, and BMW have all reduced the number of cars for the U.S. market with a manual transmission, the article points out — leaving stick shift-loving Americans with a total of about 24 new-vehicle models to choose from. The articles adds that only 60% of Americans know how to drive a manual transmission (according to a survey from auto parts retailer AmericanMuscle): 83% for baby boomers but 39% for Gen Z. "Respondents were about evenly split on whether knowing how to drive a manual is an important life skill." But Ford CEO Jim Farley said earlier this year he has no plans to make the Mustang automatic-only. "Out of our cold, dead hands will we not have a manual Mustang." Farley said.

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Olivia Attwood stripped down to her underwear in a racy Instagram video on Saturday morning as she shared a behind the scenes get ready with me from her event on Friday night. 

Candidates such as Mr Fishfinger, Rob Pownall and Piers Corbyn were all missing from the final ballot for the Clacton by-election. Here's why.

Candidates such as Mr Fishfinger, Rob Pownall and Piers Corbyn were all missing from the final ballot for the Clacton by-election. Here's why.

Primrose Hill residents claim the terrace on Rothwell Street means people can now look directly into their bedrooms and bathrooms.

The MP for Makerfield was filmed dancing and clapping along to True Faith by New Order, which - perhaps purposefully - contains the line 'I used to think that the day would never come'.

Furious locals say the group have been reappearing for years in car parks, lay-bys and fields across Buckinghamshire.

Mick Jagger, now 82, has been watching and cheering the England team in the stands. And with him were three of his sons -born decades apart and yet their bond with Jagger was touchingly evident.

She was given the name Sporty when she joined the Spice Girls, but when Melanie Chisholm walks down the aisle today, her wedding will be a very posh affair.

In a world defined by extravagant jewellery, opting for the unconventional has become the ultimate status symbol for celebrities popping the question to their other half.

Roksana Jasitczak, a passenger of a different car, spotted the unnamed man lying down in the back of the vehicle on Friday, June 3.

Ruth Jones looked completely unrecognisable with grey hair as she showed off her new look on Instagram on Friday.