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The Resolution Foundation has pointed out - real earnings growth has finally returned, but far stronger pay rises will be needed to beat inflation and sustain the pay recovery next year, the Resolution Foundation said today (Wednesday) in response to...

A new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry finds that between 2000 and 2011, unemployment was the cause of approximately 45,000 deaths by suicide around the globe each year, and it accounted for around nine times as many suicides as the...

Wish List by Katherine Soper, who currently works in a perfumery on Regent Street in London, was today – 17 November 2015 – announced as the winner of the 10th anniversary Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015 – Europe’s biggest playwriting...

Recent Welsh figures have showed that between April and September 2015 the number of people in who were supplied three days' emergency food by foodbanks stood at 39,245, up from the same time last year. The figures have been described as a reflection...

Storm Barney, the UK's second named storm, has arrived and is affecting parts of Wales and southern England with gusts in excess of 70mph. If you like gadgets please check out WindyTV. We love it.  Click on the image below:  Stay safe!

This week marks the first ever World Antibiotic Awareness week (16-22 November 2015) with an emphasis on the need for us to consider antibiotics as a precious resource, rather than an everyday medicine. Clinicians are saying say antibiotics are not t...

All eyes will be on the Labour party this week as Plaid Cymru acts once again to ban the use of zero hour contracts in Wales. The Party of Wales has tabled amendments to the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care Bill in a bid to outlaw the use of...

A report by the Resolution Foundation says: Over half of all employers (54%) say the new National Living Wage (NLW) will have an effect on their wage bill, with three in ten of those organisations that will be affected by the new higher wage floor pl...

UC cuts 'would stop tenants looking for work' Universal Credit cuts could remove work incentives – one of the key aims of the flagship welfare policy – social landlords have warned. Unconfirmed reports suggest that George Osborne is considering makin...

The blame game has kicked off, French national unity did not last long. Poverty and unemployment in Belgium and the role it played radicalizing young muslims involved in the Paris atrocities is getting much attention.  Inside  — the Be...