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Figures show that with 11,345 new businesses in Wales in 2015, Wales had fewer business births than the rest of the UK. Plaid Cymru's Shadow Economy Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth has pledged to tap into Wales' entrepreneurial spirit as figures reveal tha...

AN ESSEX couple can no longer have total parental responsibility for their disabled teenage daughter because of concerns about their attitude to social services staff, a family court judge has ruled. Judge Lynn Roberts has made a care order which mea...

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his EU allies are weighing a compromise on the welfare benefit reform proposal that has become the main sticking point in negotiations over the U.K.’s membership in the union. German...

  From all at the ABC - Happy New Year

Building on Britain’s living standards recovery next year will require decisive action by policy makers British policy makers might well have had a contented Christmas break. At least by recent standards. In 2015 employment reached record highs...

Former service personnel in Wales deserve better support when they return from service, Plaid Cymru has said. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood set out her party’s commitment to veterans, in order to support veterans to make a full contribution to...

Earlier in 2015 a coalition of national Churches and charities has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions over its refusal to undertake a full review of the benefit sanctions system. The DWP has issued its overdue response to the Work and Pe...

Utrecht city council is to begin experimenting with the idea of a basic income, replacing the current complicated system of taxes, social security benefits and top-up benefits. City alderman Victor Everhardt says the aim is to see if the concept of a...

In the US the retail industry is slowly atrophying, and there's proof: more and more shopping malls are closing. Dead shopping malls even have their own website. The malls are primarily those that are not high-end or low-end. Earlier this y...

Thinking about your future over Christmas? Are we producing too many graduates for too small a pool of jobs? The Work Foundation has not found this to be the case. This Work Foundation report Unemployed and Overqualified can be downloaded below and i...