内容摘要：She added that Austen's work was "subtle and complex", which meant it was "constantly open to new interpretations" that could interest new generations of readers.

She added that Austen's work was "subtle and complex", which meant it was "constantly open to new interpretations" that could interest new generations of readers.

In a, the council said that, as of the end of 2024, it employed 736 workers directly in refuse collection and 493 agency workers.

It said that the average cost of employing agency workers was £18.44 an hour, although that may include loaders, WRCOs and drivers and is the amount being paid by the council, not the amount received by the workers.That would work out at a cost to the council of about £38,000 a year if the worker was employed full time.The FOI also asked the length of service of the longest serving agency worker employed by the council and was told that they had been doing the job for 13 years.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) - set up to cut US government spending - claims to have saved, on average, more than $10bn a week since President Trump entered office."We're talking about almost $200bn and rising fast," Trump told the BBC when talking about Mr Musk's cost-cutting drive on 23 April.

Doge's website says it is focusing on cancelling contracts, grants and leases put in place by previous administrations, as well as tackling fraud and reducing the government workforce.

BBC Verify has looked at the agency's biggest claimed savings, examining the figures and speaking to experts."In truth, the government never incurred those costs and could never reach that ceiling amount. The real, documentable savings from early termination were approximately $153 million", they estimated.

They say this figure comes from tallying up the $18m per month fixed running costs (for things like staffing and security at the facility) from February - when Doge announced the cut - to November - when the contract was subject to annual review.They also told us that the site - which closed on the same day as the Doge announcement - never reached its maximum capacity of 3,000 children, and about 2,000 stayed at the Texas facility at its peak, before numbers fell significantly as border crossings decreased.

We contacted the Administration for Children and Families and the Department for Health and Human Services which awarded the contract but are yet to hear back.The second largest saving listed by Doge comes from cancelling a contract between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and an IT company called Centennial Technologies which it claims was worth $1.9bn.