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MENTAL HEALTH - An Essex County Fire and Rescue Service firefighter is sharing mental health advice during Mental Health Awareness Week to encourage people to reach out for support when they need it. We can all struggle with mental health issues...

MINISTER FOR ROUGH SLEEPING AND HOUSING - Eddie Hughes MP, has kindly responded to our questions about tenant references and illegal evictions put to him by DWP Minister Will Quince. We are certainly hearing complaints about landlords hiring Eas...

RENTERS - will continue to be supported as national COVID-19 restrictions ease says government.  Four-month notice periods for most tenants until at least end of September. Move will ensure renters are protected as we continue through the Roadma...

BBC LOOK EAST - As part of our Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 initiative, we went sailing with Chelmsford Radio Yacht Club (CRYC) as a backdrop to talk about  SAILING WELLNESS and the positive benefits of getting afloat and 'blue health'...

BBC APPEARANCE - Simon Collyer is talking about Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 and his SAILING WELLNESS project with BBC Presenter Tom Williams on BBC Look East TV, 18:30 BBC1 We are filming lunch time at the Blackwater Sailing Club mari...

DWP - The case of a man from the Batley area named only as “Mr T”, who starved to death more than 20 years ago, has been revived amid a review of benefits scandals. The case of Mr T, who died in 1998, after contact with the Department for W...

JAPAN - Simon Collyer was invited as a guest to write about Wakura Onsen and Nowaza Onsen in September 2019.  This Flying Squid, a symbol the fishing town of Noto, on the Noto Peninsula made it onto the BBC website this week.   This is...

MENTAL HEALTH - Simon Collyer, founder & CEO of the Association of Pension & Benefits CIC and founder of SAILING WELLNESS has teamed up with four times para-Olympic sailor Hannah Stodel, to sail RC (radio-controlled) model yachts in a Co...

LOCAL ELECTIONS - Prediction: Con 337, Lab 229, SNP 55, Lib Dem 6, Conservative majority of 24 Despite sleaze allegations, the Conservatives have not lost ground to Labour in the past month according to our poll-of-polls. Read more Electoral Cal...

RENT ARREARS - A survey of Housing Associations by the National Housing Federation found- '60% of households claiming Universal Credit are in arrears, compared to 36% of households paying by other means.' 'Households claiming Universal credit are als...