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Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., today welcomed the latest monthly unemployment figures, which were announced today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The monthly unemployment rate has dropped consiste...

Colchester Foodbank is gearing up for Christmas. ‘December is the biggest month’ points out Michael Beckett, Chief Officer, seen here on the left, talking to a volunteer working for local Colchester organization, Signpost. Signpost is a Colchester ba...

The Brexit crisis has triggered a big move in public opinion, if the polls are to be believed. With a swing of about 1.5pc from Conservatives to Labour over November, Labour is now just ahead of the Conservatives in terms of the predicted popular vot...

Colchester MP, Will Quince, asked The Colchester Business Network to a Colchester Business Questions & Answers, with the Rt Hon Liz Truss MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. The meeting was held on Friday 30th November from 4 - 5.30pm, at The Ge...

The RAC has welcomed the support of the House of Commons for a fairer private parking system, which would make it easier to appeal unfair fines. Parking Pirates as they are called, are the bane of motorists across the country, especially those on low...

The National Landlords Association have recently drawn our attention to these changes:  The DWP has announced landlord escalation routes for Universal Credit Live Service claimants at risk of eviction to go live on Monday 3 December. 1.1. Landlo...

The High Court will hear a legal challenge tomorrow (Tuesday 27th & 28th November 2018) against the government’s Universal Credit payment system which has left some families worse off and coping with dramatically fluctuating income from mont...

We it has been done, the EU administration negotiating a deal that transposes into law something it’s deeply convinced is totally bonkers. And something that UK citizens also sense is completely bonkers as well. A deal worse than the one we have alre...

Stockton South MP Dr Paul Williams has raised the issue in Parliament. A whistleblower has alleged benefit claimants moving onto Universal Credit in Stockton are only being paid if they call to complain, an MP has claimed. Stockton South MP Dr Paul W...

Disabled man who struggles to walk or use his right arm survives on £40 a week after he was ruled fit for work as a barman and had benefits cut Billy Bryson from Livingston has been unable to work since a car crash 18 years ago left him with severe n...