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Jobseekers in the Causeway Coast and Glens council area are being encouraged to come along to a major Job Fair being held on Thursday 8 March 2018. The Department for Communities, in partnership with Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, is hosti...

The 11th National Apprenticeship Week (NAW 2018) will run from 5 to 9 March 2018. During the week employers and apprentices from across England will come together to celebrate the success of apprenticeships whilst encouraging even more people to choo...

The Scottish government has recommended that the minimum price for a unit of alcohol should be set at 50p. The minimum pricing scheme will come into force in May, after ministers won out in a lengthy legal battle.

A brilliant project and one we full support here at the ABC.  The Homeless Period Southampton is a local branch of a growing volunteer-led campaign designed to provide vulnerable people with necessary sanitary protection. It works by securing do...

Lectures on poverty from the party of sanctions and the Bedroom Tax are a “sick joke”, the SNP has said. Ruth Davidson’s apologist-in-chief for the DWP axemen Adam Tomkins today claimed that the party had a “moral duty”...

Wrap up. It's very cold outside, wherever you are in the UK. And with freezing winds coming in from Russia, it will feel like -10C to -15C today. Yellow and amber weather warnings are in place for southern and eastern England on Monday and Tuesday, s...

The ABC have long argued against blanket discrimination of those on benefits. Lettings agents and landlords around the country who reject housing benefit claimants could be flouting equality laws, due a recent legal case. Single mother Rosie Keogh wo...

A disabled granddad who won £80,000 on the lottery claims the windfall wrecked his life because he lost his benefits. Daniel Millar, aged 63, spent the money within weeks on gifts for his family, luxury holidays, home improvements and clothes....

Social Democrats Political Director Anne-Marie McNally has urged homeless agencies and their facilities to take heed of the significant weather warnings in place for the coming days and ensure people are not forced onto the street during daytime hour...