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Time of India
22-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
UK govt greenlights £38 billion Sizewell C nuclear plant
London: The UK government on Tuesday gave new British nuclear power plant Sizewell C the final go-ahead after reaching a deal with investors, aiming to bolster net zero and energy security goals. The government, the largest shareholder in the project, said Sizewell C, in eastern England, will cost around £38 billion ($51 billion) to construct. Explore courses from Top Institutes in Please select course: Select a Course Category CXO MCA Finance Public Policy Data Science Healthcare Others Design Thinking Operations Management healthcare others Digital Marketing Leadership MBA Data Science Artificial Intelligence PGDM Technology Data Analytics Product Management Management Project Management Cybersecurity Degree Skills you'll gain: Operations Strategy for Business Excellence Organizational Transformation Corporate Communication & Crisis Management Capstone Project Presentation Duration: 11 Months IIM Lucknow Chief Operations Officer Programme Starts on Jun 30, 2024 Get Details Skills you'll gain: Customer-Centricity & Brand Strategy Product Marketing, Distribution, & Analytics Digital Strategies & Innovation Skills Leadership Insights & AI Integration Expertise Duration: 10 Months IIM Kozhikode IIMK Chief Marketing and Growth Officer Starts on Apr 7, 2024 Get Details Skills you'll gain: Digital Strategy Development Expertise Emerging Technologies & Digital Trends Data-driven Decision Making Leadership in the Digital Age Duration: 40 Weeks Indian School of Business ISB Chief Digital Officer Starts on Jun 30, 2024 Get Details Skills you'll gain: Technology Strategy & Innovation Emerging Technologies & Digital Transformation Leadership in Technology Management Cybersecurity & Risk Management Duration: 24 Weeks Indian School of Business ISB Chief Technology Officer Starts on Jun 28, 2024 Get Details The project will also be funded by Canadian pension fund La Caisse , British Gas owner Centrica , Amber Infrastructure and French energy giant EDF. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The Dark Truth Nobody Talks About trendingresults Undo "It is time to do big things and build big projects in this country again," Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said in a statement. "Today we announce an investment that will provide clean, homegrown power to millions of homes for generations to come," he added. The plant, which has been in financial limbo for over a decade, is not expected to start generating electricity until the 2030s. Live Events The projected construction cost of £38 billion exceeds previous official estimates of £20 to £30 billion - and campaigners have warned that further cost overruns or delays could impact households. The final investment decision gives the government a 44.9% stake in the project. Among the new investors in Sizewell C, La Caisse holds a 20% stake, Centrica 15% and investment manager Amber Infrastructure an "initial" 7.6%. EDF announced earlier this month that it will take a 12.5% stake in the project - down from 16.2% ownership the end of 2024. The UK has refocused on shoring up nuclear power since the start of the war in Ukraine, in the name of energy security and faced with a fleet of ageing power stations. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government has also pledged by 2035 to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions by 81% on 1990 levels, under plans to reach net-zero by 2050.
Belfast Telegraph
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
Inside the history of one of NI's ‘happiest and most beautiful' pubs and why ‘the original bar has to stay'
Laura McDaid speaks to the owners of a Co Fermanagh bar popular with well-known faces and locals alike Writer John McGahern once described Blakes of The Hollow in Co Fermanagh as 'one of the happiest and most beautiful bars in the whole of Ireland'. The author of Amongst Women and The Dark wiled away many an hour in its cosy snugs before his death in 2006.
Belfast Telegraph
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
‘We hope Blakes remains a constant on the Enniskillen townscape for hundreds of years to come'
Laura McDaid speaks to the owners of a Co Fermanagh bar popular with well-known faces and locals alike Writer John McGahern once described Blakes of The Hollow in Co Fermanagh as 'one of the happiest and most beautiful bars in the whole of Ireland'. The author of Amongst Women and The Dark wiled away many an hour in its cosy snugs before his death in 2006.
Irish Examiner
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Neil Jordan on Kubrick, Brando, and the brilliance of Tom Cruise
Neil Jordan's father worked as a cigire. One of the teachers under his charge as a school inspector was the novelist John McGahern, who, as it happened, also briefly taught Jordan in school in Clontarf. Jordan's only memory of him from those days was of McGahern, who used to wear a brown tweed suit, leaning out the window of the classroom picking his nose. McGahern's teaching career came to a shuddering halt at that school. One day he disappeared. He was removed from his post, without a goodbye or an explanation. McGahern had already published a novel, The Dark, by the time he was teaching at Jordan's school. It had been banned, but it wasn't the book that led to his downfall. It was his falling in love with a Swedish divorcee. Years later, Jordan's father told his son what transpired. At the time, in the 1960s, it would have taken practically an act of parliament to get a teacher removed from his post. The principal – who kept a cane hidden in his sleeve – didn't want any hassle, neither did the teachers' union, but the middle class, god-fearing parents of the children at Jordan's school were so enraged by McGahern's domestic situation that they marched on their parish priest's house in Clontarf, demanding McGahern's removal. 'That's the kind of country it was,' says Jordan, 75. 'It was very conformist. It was strange. The principal said to him, 'John, why did you have to marry a divorced Swedish woman when there's women all over Ireland with their tongues hanging out looking for men?' John said, 'Well, they weren't hanging out for me.'' Neil Jordan on set. Jordan followed McGahern's path and became a novelist. McGahern sardonically told Jordan's father that his son was the living contradiction of his educational theories. Jordan's first novel, Night in Tunisia, won him literary prizes, but it's as a filmmaker, including The Crying Game, which earned Jordan a screen-writing Oscar, and Michael Collins, that has made his reputation. In the mid-1980s, Jordan was living in Bray, Co Wicklow. His eldest daughter told him someone called 'Stanley Cooper' had phoned. He left a number, but Jordan forgot to call him back. The next night, Jordan's daughter told him 'Stanley Cooper' had phoned again. Jordan phoned the number and found himself talking, not to a publicist or a journalist, but to Stanley Kubrick. The next time he was in London, Jordan arranged to meet Kubrick for dinner. Kubrick gave him precious directions for the restaurant's location in Chelsea, and where they would sit in the restaurant. When Kubrick arrived, he wore a green combat jacket stuffed with notepads, and he seemed to remember everything they had said over several phone conversations. It struck Jordan that Kubrick had a singular intelligence and that he probably recorded his telephone conversations. 'After we had that dinner, we began a series of conversations,' says Jordan. 'Stanley was like that with a lot of directors like Brian De Palma, David Mamet, John Boorman, Steven Spielberg. When I met Steven, he told me he phoned him too. He was interested in everything. He would call you up and discuss things. He lived in St Albans [England], in this lovely country pile with his wife, Christiane, and his kids. Somebody who didn't leave the house, would live on the phone.' Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview With The Vampire, directed by Neil Jordan. Kubrick told Jordan the only reason for living in Los Angeles was the money and the pretty girls, and he had no need for either. As Jordan's star began to rise, he spent more time in Hollywood, shooting, for example, Interview with the Vampire, which came out in 1994, starring Tom Cruise. Kubrick asked Jordan about his opinion of Cruise, who he was thinking of casting in Eyes Wide Shut. Jordan said he was a very good actor. 'He had better be,' said Kubrick, 'because he's not a star for his personality.' When it came to casting the lead role in Interview with the Vampire, the part was offered to Daniel Day-Lewis, but he declined, which didn't greatly surprise Jordan – given his method style of acting, Day-Lewis would have had to sleep in a coffin for the production's duration, suggests Jordan. Instead, Jordan turned to Cruise. Sean Penn told Jordan that from his generation, Cruise was the toughest, he'd never back down. 'If you give Tom Cruise a challenge, he will rise to it,' says Jordan. 'Now he's the biggest star in the world, the only star in the world, perhaps, but he's a very good actor. That's why I cast him in Interview with the Vampire, why I thought he could make that Lestat role work. A lot of people said he couldn't, but he did. He's doing this Mission Impossible series because it's a challenge and it reveals his skills as just a plain and simple actor, but he's a great one.' Neil Jordan will discuss his memoir, Amnesiac, with Cristín Leech at Bantry's West Cork Literary Festival, 8.30pm, Monday, July 14. See: Marlon Brando and his Irish roots Marlon Brando. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser ) Neil Jordan got back to his hotel in Los Angeles one day in the early 1990s and noticed somebody had left a message on the phone beside his bed. He lifted the phone, but couldn't make any sense of the message. The next morning there was another message from the same mumbling voice. This time the caller left a number he could decipher and a name, Marlon. Jordan's interest was piqued. Might it be Marlon Brando? He remembered his agent asked if he had any film ideas and Jordan suggested Brando seemed Lear-like lately, like a king who'd lost his kingdom; his children were at war – his son had recently been charged with murdering his half-sister. Jordan phoned the number and found Brando on the other line. Brando wanted to meet. He was free anytime, even that morning. Jordan thought this extraordinary. He must be lonely, he concluded. So Jordan pointed his car towards Mulholland Drive, taking the turn Brando mentioned and entered a set of gates. He had hardly pressed the doorbell when the door was opened by Brando, dressed in a gigantic kaftan. He followed Brando through the house, where Brando got them some drinks. They repaired to a patio outside, which had some orange trees. Brando began peeling an orange and sucking on its juice. 'You're Irish,' Brando said, adding he had been in Ireland a few years earlier. He said he came off the plane in Dublin and while driving into the city he passed under a bridge – the trainline bridge on the Drumcondra Road – and it was the first time he ever felt at home. 'Brando described the bridge so emotionally and accurately,' says Jordan. 'I said, 'Of course, I know that bridge. If you come in from the airport, that's when you feel you're entering Dublin – when you go under that bridge.' "But when Marlon Brando says, 'I felt at home,' it threw me. I thought he was Italian with some Native American. There was something sad about the way he said it. Something sad all around. 'So, you're Irish?' I said.' 'Must be,' he mumbled.
ITV News
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ITV News
ITV COMMISSIONS SERIAL KILLER THRILLER, THE DARK, SET IN THE WILDS OF RURAL SCOTLAND, ADAPTED BY MATT HARTLEY AND PRODUCED BY POISON PEN STUDIOS
ITV's Director of Drama, Polly Hill has commissioned a six-part series, The Dark, based upon GR Halliday's debut novel, From the Shadows, adapted by Matt Hartley and produced by Poison Pen Studios, part of ITV Studios. The Dark marks Poison Pen's second commission for ITV since launching in January 2023. Commented Polly Hill: ' The Dark is a compelling new drama which introduces the fearless DI Monica Kennedy, who has to try and catch a serial killer in this really chilling Scottish story. Matt's adaptation is brilliantly gripping and I am delighted to be adapting this novel with him and the team at Poison Pen.' Commented Ben Stephenson: ' The Dark is a gripping hide behind the sofa thriller with unguessable twists and a central character whose mysterious past gives her an extraordinary insight into a twisted killer as well as an overpowering empathy for those left in the killer's wake.' When the body of a young man is found eerily staged in the idyllic Scottish wilderness, detective Monica Kennedy fears this is just the beginning of a terrifying campaign that will strike the heart of a rural community. As paranoia rises, suspicions and secrets are forced into the light, and the locals start to realise that there is a serial killer hidden amongst them. With her experience of dealing with the darkest of humanity Monica Kennedy quickly becomes entangled in a heightened game of cat and mouse with a cunning killer. Only she can stop this monster before he claims any more victims. But when her own history creeps up on her, she begins to lose trust in her own judgement. Will it be her own actions that are the biggest risk to herself and her family Commented Matt Hartley: 'ITV is home to some of the most iconic detective shows, so it is an honour to be writing The Dark and adding to that great cannon of work. I am hugely grateful to Polly Hill for her faith in me and excited to be working with her, alongside the brilliant producers at Poison Pen, to bring this new, distinctive crime thriller to life. I can't wait for viewers to meet the inimitable DI Monica Kennedy and to journey into the dark with her.' The book's author, GR Halliday, is pleased with Matt's adaptation and the commitment of Poison Pen Studios. Commented GR Halliday: 'I'm so thrilled and excited that Monica and co are coming to the screen! With so much talent on board I know Matt and the Poison Pen team will do an amazing job in bringing the story, characters and Scottish landscape to life.' Poison Pen's Ben Stephenson, Preethi Mavahalli, Luke Woellhaf and Fern McCauley will executive produce alongside Matt Hartley. Matt Brown will be producing the series which also has Lena Rae and Nessah Muthy writing and Gilles Bannier as lead Director and Executive Producer. The Dark is supported by the National Lottery through Screen Scotland. The Dark will commence filming in and around Glasgow during 2025 and is produced in association with ITV Studios, who will also distribute the series internationally.
