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MONEY - The Bank of England has unveiled the new £20 note, which contains “sophisticated security features”, making it the “most secure Bank of England banknote yet”. It has two windows and a two-colour metallic hologram which makes it harder to coun...

PARKING COWBOYS - Our Colchester MP Will Quince (Cons.) is taking up an interesting matter on our behalf regarding private parking companies - as an example, Parking Eye Limited. We are asking if merely parking in a parking space managed by a private...

UNPLUGGED - The right to switch off, sometimes called the ‘right to disconnect’, refers to a worker’s right to be able to disconnect from work and refrain from engaging in work-related electronic communications, such as emails or other messages, duri...

GOVERNMENT CUTS - North Lanarkshire Council are warning of huge cuts.  Councillors were presented with a  comprehensive five year financial plan [753kb] (2020/21 to 2024/25) at a meeting of the Policy and Strategy Committee o...

ADDICTION - Overcoming addiction of any kind is challenging for anyone. However, for those who are sensory impaired, finding a detox and rehab programme that takes into consideration their disability can prove problematic. Addictions are traumatic fo...

SUPREME COURT - Even judges can suffer it seems. This case is coming before the Supreme Court. District judges are full-time judges who deal with the majority of cases in the county courts. They are assigned on appointment to a pa...

MENTAL HEALTH - On world mental health day, SNP MP Douglas Chapman is calling on the UK government to provide better mental health support to military personnel who have been medically discharged.   The call follows a new report by Help for...

SUCCESSFUL APPEAL - Nicole De Rafael was stripped of her benefits in 2017 but it took her two years and legal support before the DWP admitted she should actually have the maximum allowance. From the Daily Mirror.  A mum who suffers from hea...

HOME OWNERSHIP - Just under 40 per cent of the UK’s homeowners are committing more than a third of their salaries to purchasing their properties, a new survey has revealed. Household debt is at an all-time high. However, despite this over stretch peo...

DYING MAN BENEFITS REFUSED - Michael McClelland - father of murdered Craig McClelland - has been denied benefits despite his terminal brain tumour diagnosis. The terminally ill father of a Paisley murder victim has been refused Universal Credit and t...