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By Harry Holmes2021-03-12T10:19:00+00:00
Analysts have warned it could be several years before rates return to pre-pandemic levels
Gaps could soon emerge on supermarket shelves unless retailers accept a greater share of soaring global shipping costs, suppliers have warned.
The cost of shipping containers has risen from around $2,000 per container to $14,000 on routes from China and Southeast Asia over the past three months, driven by a global shortage as a result of the pandemic.
Analysts have warned it could be several years before rates return to pre-pandemic levels as shipping companies look to recover their costs after years of losses.
MORE than 7600 people have joined the SNP following Nicola Sturgeon’s eight-hour evidence session in front of Holyrood’s harassment committee, the party has said. Social media has been awash with reports of a membership surge in recent days. Many of those who signed up appeared to be rejoining. Jane Chalmers tweeted: I have actually done it!! I am now ex-Labour member and have joined the SNP .bring on Independence . I have actually done it !! I am now ex-labour member and have joined the SNP .bring on Independence pic.twitter.com/SyYJzILoWr Jane Chalmers (@JaneChalmers9) March 3, 2021 Paul Sneddon said: I just joined the SNP! Sick to the back teeth of the clear disparity shown be the media in alleged breaking of ministerial code, what is going on at Westminster beggars belief, yet all the eyes on Nicola Sturgeon.
LA Opera s newest digital short film, Death, unites the striking visuals of celebrated filmmaker Nadia Hallgren, the Emmy-nominated director of the Michelle Obama documentary Becoming, with the intriguing harmonies of composer Tyshawn Sorey, a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship.
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Though most closely associated with the works of Benjamin Britten, the conductor Steuart Bedford, who has died aged 81 after complications from Parkinson’s disease, was able to turn his professionalism and interpretative talents to great advantage in a range of other repertory too. The operas of Mozart elicited from him an authoritative response over a number of years at Garsington Opera while it was based in Oxfordshire.
Having launched his professional career with The Beggar’s Opera at Sadler’s Wells theatre in 1967, he went on to conduct his own edition of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Royal Academy of Music (1969), following that with the first modern British performances of Donizetti’s Belisario, also at the RAM (1972). During the years of Britten’s final illness in the early 1970s, Bedford came to the fore as a reliable and insightful interpreter of his works. Having already assisted on the 1966 Decca re