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London's High Court has ruled that the planned next week's strike by Royal Mail workers would be illegal. Workers were set to walk out next Thursday for two days in protest over pensions, wages and jobs. However, the postal company said the strike wa...

People claiming universal credit have been offered free use of Plaid Cymru phones to avoid helpline charges. Party leader Leanne Wood said amid delays in payments, charging callers up to 55p a minute to check the status of their claim "adds insu...

Dundee City Council scooped the Chairman’s Award at the 2017 Cosla Excellence Awards last week for a scheme that sees welfare rights advisers based in five city GP surgeries. The advisers have become an integral part of services provi...

In-work poverty increased during the economic and financial crisis that hit European shores in 2008. By 2014, ten per cent of European workers were at risk of poverty, up from eight per cent in 2007. Ten per cent is a significant figure: the working...

Living Rent  members in the West of Glasgow say need your support! For months Living Rent members  have been gathering evidence and struggling against the ridiculous rents they say within Whiteinch Housing Association, In the last few weeks...

The 49th Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences – commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize for economics – has been awarded to Richard H Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics. He was a key proponent of the idea that...

Which came first, the chicken or the tax? A former Romanian finance minister argued that the country will never have a strong welfare system as long as people keep denying the state of tax revenue by keeping their own chickens and avoi...

Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is in Lyon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus student exchange program. The Erasmus Programme is an EU exchange student programme that has been in existence since the late 1980's Its purpose is to p...

Plaid Cymru Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Equalities Sian Gwenllian has said: “The Conservative UK Government’s cruel austerity agenda has had a hugely negative effect on Wales. Food bank use has risen by 550%, there has been a tenfold inc...

We are meeting Essex University Pole Fitness Club this week who contacted us out of the blue and asked could we volunteer to help the ABC?  At the ABC we do get to communicate with a wide variety of people, but this contact really was...