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SCHOOL MEALS - A Cookstown teacher in Northern Ireland is urging families entitled to free school meals to make sure their children take them as benefits look set to be slashed in the New Year. “We fear that some of the most deprived families will be...

ABC PRESS RELEASE - Civil Rights Organisation Working to help the Unemployed Seeks Parking Justice SIMON COLLYER, the founder of the Association of Pension & Benefits Claimants CIC, known as the ABC, is calling for a boycott of Holliday Inn hotel...

HI TECH - Research suggests that candidates are learning to manipulate algorithms to better their recruitment chances. Jobseekers are increasingly looking for ways to game or 'cheat' recruitment systems, according to TribePad research. Hiring Humans...

NATIONAL FINANCES - The UK’s net worth was estimated at £10.4 trillion in 2018, an average of £156,000 per person. Growth in the UK’s net worth was estimated at 3.0% or £297 billion between 2017 and 2018; this was the weakest annual growth since 2012...

TRAINING - Learning and skills are at the core of rehabilitation at Hydebank Wood College, NI Prison Service Director General Ronnie Armour has said. Speaking at the opening of the newly refurbished Learning and Skills Centre at the secure college,&n...

HEALTH - The Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Act 2018 will mean that it will be an offence for alcohol to be supplied below that price in Wales. In Wales there are 60,000 admissions to hospital every year, because of alcohol. Alcoho...

DONATIONS NEEDED - Samaritans is a unique charity dedicated to reducing feelings of isolation and disconnection that can lead to suicide. ‘Samaritans’ is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distr...

FUEL POVERTY - Ahead of Fuel Poverty Awareness Day this Friday, which aims to raise awareness of the support available for those in fuel poverty, research from uSwitch shows the harsh reality of fuel poverty as millions of households in the UK will b...

MONEY SAVING TIPS - We all want to save money, right? For some it’s to afford those little luxuries in life, while for others it’s a necessity to get by. Worryingly, surveys show that six million Brits fear they’ll never get rid of their debt an...

BUSINESS NEWS - Multi-billion pound catering group Compass has announced plans to cut around 3,000 jobs, including hundreds in the UK. The FTSE 100 constituent's market cap fell around £1.8bn, but CEO Dominic Blakemore argued it remained 'another str...