In short: Wine grape growers in South Australia's Riverland are considering exiting the industry amid prices as low as $120 a tonne for their fruit in 2024. Wine grape growers in South Australia's Riverland are considering exiting the industry amid prices as low as $120 a tonne for their fruit in 2024. The Punjabi-Australian family is among more than 900 …
Review August Wilson: A Life By Patti Hartigan Simon & Schuster: 544 pages, $32.50 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. It wasn’t easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright …
A Queensland court has been told of a grieving husband's heartache, as the woman responsible for a crash that killed his wife is criticised for showing no remorse. Key points: A statement provided by Ms Frewin's husband described the heartbreak of losing his soulmate The magistrate was "disgusted" by the lack of remorse shown by Walker During trial, Walker was …
LV’s disgraced chairman is finally leaving after his controversial plans to sell the mutual to an American private equity giant collapsed. The shake-up came just eight days after the Mail on Sunday revealed Cook and Hartigan have netted £100,000 since the collapse of the deal and asked: ‘Why is this failing pair still at LV?’ Kevin Hollinrake, a member of …
The FTSE 100 index closed down 0.66 per cent or 47.89 points to 7,170.75 as cases of Covid-19 continue to rise sharply and the Bank of England prepares to vote on whether or not it will hike interest rates tomorrow. Inflation soared above 5 per cent in November, new figures published today show, adding to the growing alarm about the …
A celestial phenomenon which has been seen since the middle ages will brighten up the skies on the evening of December 21, 2020. Jupiter and Saturn will appear just after sunset, so close together that they might look like companions. “Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring once every 20 years or so, but this conjunction is exceptionally …
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