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BUSINESS NEWS - Jingye Group is said to be the frontrunner to save British Steel, according to sources close to the matter.   The Chinese company hopes to strike a deal to take over the failed manufacturer by mid-November. It comes after nearly...

PARLIAMENT - t has now been dissolved until the General Election. Therefore, there are currently no Members of Parliament. If you need help from your MP, you are out of luck...!!  We must thank MP Will Quince for the great work he has done for t...

IRELAND - The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., has welcomed the latest statistics published by the CSO today which show that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2019 was 4.8%, down from 5....

HUNGER - The Trussell Trust have launched their largest ever state of hunger report. You can download the report and read it below. Executive summary: Over the last decade there has been growing public and media concern about more extreme signs of ma...

CHILE UNREST - After 12 days of mass demonstrations, rioting and human rights violations, the government of President Sebastián Piñera must now find a way out of the crisis that has engulfed Chile. Analysts have correctly interpreted the wave of...

LIVERPOOL - A woman who has used a wheelchair for a decade had her benefits slashed after being told "you can walk across a room". Donna Henshaw has spina bifida and in the last 10 years her health has deteriorated rapidly and she now uses a wheelcha...

CONTEMPT CLAIM - The Tories are accused of "contempt" for the poor after refusing to sack a candidate who said people on Benefits Street should be "put down". Boris Johnson 's welfare chief refused calls to axe Francesca O'Brien over v...

BENEFIT FREEZE - Today the Government has announced that the freeze on benefits, which has been in place since 2015, will come to end an end next year. Working-age benefits such as universal credit and jobseeker's allowance will rise by 1.7% from Apr...

The U.S. added 128,000 jobs in October. It’s a slowdown, the data say the New York Times is clouded by the temporary impact of a General Motors strike. 128,000 jobs were added last month, the US Labor Department reported on Friday. Analysts surveyed...

Secretary of State Therese Coffey has today (1 November 2019) announced a £10 million Universal Credit Transition Fund for outreach programmes to help vulnerable people make Universal Credit claims. The fund will be available to partner organisations...