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The main contribution to the increase in UK house prices came from England, where house prices increased by 7.4% over the year to October 2016, with the average price in England now £233,000. Wales saw house prices increase by 4.4% over the las...

We do love our music here at the ABC and we do feature music to lift the soul and to illustrate articles. Occasionally you come across artists so talented that you wonder where it comes from? English folk singer Hannah Sanders & Ben Saunders are...

In the year 2015-2016 the public donated 10,570 tonnes of food which fed over a million people at Trussell Trust foodbanks, up from 1,225 tonnes (which fed less than 130,000 people) five years ago. The rise of food banks and increasing need for help...

The project, backed by £280,000 of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) investment, will include 4 new picture books to promote group discussions on finding and keeping a job. Beyond Words is a social enterprise which already produces unique...

A football fan who desperately wanted a job took his own life after being 'belittled' by Job Centre staff, his inquest heard. David Brown, 18, seeking a welder's apprenticeship, was under 'immense pressure' from the Department of Work...

Plans for greater powers to limit welfare payments for EU migrants have been drawn up by the European Commission. The proposal would give countries more scope to restrict welfare payments for EU migrants. The college of commissioners w...

The Child Support Agency – which processes child maintenance payments between parents – recently closed down and was replaced by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).  Changes to how the service operates means that the parent caring f...

McDonald’s plans to move its international tax base from Luxembourg to Britain, the fast food burger chain said today. The shift in tax domicile for the company’s non-U.S. operations was not about obtaining a better rate of corp...

In his State of the Union address on 14 September 2016, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced the plan for a European Solidarity Corps. "There are many young, socially-minded people in Europe willing to make a meaningful co...

Due to the introduction of a new tax and fears over the divorce from the EU, according to the Evening Standard. The paper’s Jonathan Prynn and Joanna Bourke have the story: “Just nine newly built homes worth more than £5 million cha...