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The ABC is now working on adding directory content in a team effort with the University of Essex Student Union VTeam. The V incidentally stands for ‘volunteer’. Joining us this week is a multitalented electronics student Aishwarya Balan....

Courier company Hermes failed to provide sufficient rights for its workers has led government to announce a crackdown on firms claiming workers are self-employed to avoid paying proper levels of tax and national Insurance and providing proper worker...

Chinese investors invited to bid for over £5bn worth of projects in northern England Chinese and international investors have been invited to bid for over £5 billion worth of infrastructure and regeneration projects in the north of Englan...

The Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by a Kent-based tyre company to reduce a £1 million fine for health and safety offences, imposed a decade after the incidents occurred. Watling Tyre Services Ltd pleaded guilty to two offences of fail...

Dr David Lowe of the Liverpool John Moores University knows his stuff when it comes to teaching law. His lip smacking style can be mildly irritating, but his laid back easy going approach to explaining what can seem complex legal issues, is a gr...

Today is Armistice, Remembrance or Veterans Day and a public a holiday in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Poland, United States and Canada, marking the end of World War I (though peace was not formally ratified until January 1920, afte...

This means that women are effectively working for free from 10th November to the end of the calendar year, because on average they earn less than men. EPD is calculated using the mean full time gender pay gap, which is currently 13.9%. EPD 2016 falls...

NEARLY 40 per cent of Scottish pubs, clubs, restaurants and hotels have a seen a decline in sales in the third quarter of the year, as trade bosses warned that hundreds of outlets face closure next year unless radical change is made to the way busine...

The country’s highest court, the Supreme Court, has ruled that the Government discriminated against a disabled woman and her husband and a severely disabled child who needs overnight care through the implementation of the ‘bedroom tax&rsq...

Nearly a quarter of all people in Wales now struggling to make ends meet A shock new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that almost a quarter (23%) of everyone living in Wales is experiencing poverty. The study, which also found tha...