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We made a trip to RAF Bentwaters, Sunday. RAF Bentwaters is in Suffolk near to the town of Woodbridge. It opened in 1944 and closed in 1993. It was the home of the United States Air force's 81st Tactical Fighter Wing. The base at its peak used to pou...

Businesses in the “gig economy” are exploiting loopholes in employment law to the disadvantage of workers, according to a group of cross-party MPs.   In a draft bill, two Commons committees suggest companies should be fined if they f...

In 2030 the northern powerhouse will be run by the millennial generation. For the first time they and their successors will make up the majority of the electorate, and will form the overwhelming majority of the workforce: millennials (aged 22–...

Hundreds of people have congratulated TV benefits star Scott Gavin The 33-year-old was given £26,000 on TV's Great British Benefit Handout show and used the money to turn his home into a mini-zoo and set up a lucrative party business....

Tens of thousands of disability and sickness benefit claimants may been underpaid by the DWP and it could cost up to £500million to correct the blunder. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed errors in payment of Employm...

“Spreadsheet Phil” Hammond reinforced his reputation as a tin-eared technocrat by declaring everyone in Britain has a job. “There are no unemployed people,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. By the time he’d arri...

Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Public Health and Social Services Dr Dai Lloyd has warned the Labour government in Wales not to repeat the scandal of social care cuts in England after a new analysis of data showed that cuts to social...

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has said this week that the average British commuter spends the equivalent of 27 days a year travelling to and from work. They also highlighted this has increased by 2.5 days in the last decade. Workers in the London ta...

Over much of the past decade, households on low incomes have been finding it ever harder to make ends meet, as their incomes have risen more slowly than living costs. The middle of the present decade saw a period of more benign conditions, when price...

SNP Westminster spokesperson on Health Dr Philippa Whitford MP has written to the Tory minister David Gauke urging the UK government to use next week’s Budget to sort out the ‘damaging and destructive’ roll out of Universal Credit (...