festive season

Lower GST rates coincide with the beginning of a long festive season when Indians typically open their purse strings to buy everything from new cars to clothes.

George Webster will be one of Captain Hook's pirates in The All New Adventures of Peter Pan, at the Royal & Derngate theatre in Northampton over the festive season.

But the shock of the 145% tariffs - a cost too high to be swallowed by his company or passed onto customers - had raised the threat of empty shelves during the critical November and December festive season.

Ms Davidson told the tribunal that human resources was unavailable due to the festive season.

Working alongside Chichester Festival Theatre and the Roald Dahl Story Company, the new stage adaptation will open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for a 10-week run over the festive season in 2025.