Bryony Gooch
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Major London firm offering £40,000 graduate salaries and âgolden helloâ (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. A major London professional services firm has announced plans to offer a âmarket-leadingâ salary and bonus to its graduate intake next year. Grant Thornton has overhauled its early careers programme to instead offer a starting salary of £40,000, with new âmilestone bonusesâ offered for both sign-on and post-qualification, also known as a âgolden helloâ. The firm
Iâm telling the truthâ Earl Spencer insists after Kingâs backlash to claims - live (opens the original)
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Earl Spencer has insisted he is âtelling the truthâ about a phone call with King Charles in the days after Dianaâs death following backlash from Buckingham Palace. Writing in his bombshell memoir, he claimed that King Charles âsounded giddily elated â like a lottery winnerâ on the phone with him. Responding to Buckingham Palaceâs statement which said the King is mindful that âgrief can cloud reasonâ, the Earl told BBC: âI can tell you here and now, those are exactly the words
Police investigating death of British man in Sicily (opens the original)
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An investigation is underway to understand how a British man died in Sicily, as local media has suggested his death could have been part of a spiritual ritual. A Carabinieri spokesperson said Benjamin John Braithwaite, 35, who was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, was found at around 3am on Sunday between Noto and Canicattini Bagni in the Syracuse province. They confirmed a rope was found nearby, while the presence of injuries or signs of violence – including possible injuries to the neck – remains
Boris Johnson hits out at Putin after near miss with Russian drone (opens the original)
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Boris Johnson has hit out at Vladimir Putin after a Russian drone targeted the railway line he was travelling on. The former prime minister was alerted at 5am on Sunday as he returned from a security conference in Kyiv after another passenger train behind his was forced to evacuate near Yagodyn, near the Polish border. In a post on X, Mr Johnson wrote: “I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning.” It is understood the
Iran war live: Tehran mocks Trump over capture of US submarine drone (opens the original)
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Iranian officials have mocked the US military after claiming they captured a cutting-edge sea drone and âpicked it up like a plastic bottleâ. Taking to X, Iranâs embassy in Ghana said it had caught âthe most advanced ghosts sub everâ deployed by US forces in the Strait of Hormuz. âIt came in cocky, like a tourist who doesn't read signs. Our guys picked it up like a plastic bottle in a fishing net. Fully intact. Still blinking like an idiot,â the embassy added. The capture gives Teh
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