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This report (downloadable below) looks at the state of women's rights in Great Britain in 2018. It assesses the progress on women's rights since 2013 and makes recommendations to the UK and Welsh governments, in areas including: &...

Forecasters are expecting one of the hottest July days ever recorded in London today. Expect blistering sunshine with temperatures in the capital reaching a sweltering 35C by early afternoon. There’s even half a chance of some explosive thunder...

Disabled People Against Cuts and others are holding a vigil at lunchtime on July 30th at the Royal Courts of Justice, WC2R 1 to support full compensation for the claimants and resist government moves to claw back what these Claimants have won. The co...

The Times reports that big six energy firm Eon is set to cut around 500 jobs, as it prepares for the introduction of a cap on energy prices. A spokesman for the company, which employs 9,400 people in the UK, said "Clearly we and others across the ene...

Prospective first-time home buyers in London in 2017 could expect to spend 13 times their earnings on property, compared with 5.5 times in the North East. London was the least affordable region for prospective first-time buyers in 14 of the last 19 y...

The Government are closing the following Courts to same money. Banbury Magistrates� and County Court Blackfriars Crown Court Chorley Magistrates� Court Fleetwood Magistrates� Court (currently sitting as a Family Hearing Centre) Maidenhead Magistrates...

Want to find out about part time flexible training options? DEASP and Cork Springboard Training Providers to host an afternoon Springboard+ Training Expo on Wednesday 25th July 2018 in Cork City  UCC, CIT, Innopharmalabs and Cork Institute of Te...

From the Executive Summary: The post-crisis decade has brought a renewed focus on living standards, inequality and poverty – and on the effectiveness of policy in supporting income growth. Ten years on from the global financial crisis, the natu...

The structure of European societies changed dramatically after the Second World War when economies boomed on the back of a shift from industry towards service-oriented activities. New white-collar and professional jobs emerged, dissolving the rigidit...

End Hunger has announced that this October they will have their first End Hunger UK Week, starting on Monday, October 15. End Hunger will have a week of events, campaigns and activism to get the message out that no one in the UK should have to go to...