Why we’re flying home to vote yes in Ireland’s abortion referendum
Voxpops of Irish women travelling from Scotland back to Ireland to take part in historic vote
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“NHS has been chronically short changed by Conservatives”
The Institute for Fiscal Studies and Health Foundation said the NHS would need an extra 4% a year - or £2,000 per UK household - for the next 15 years. The report said the NHS has been struggling to cope after the toughest financial constraints in its 70-year history had been imposed ...
What can Arsenal expect from their new manager Unai Emery?
Arsenal FC has officially welcomed its new head coach Unai Emery this morning. The Spanish veteran manager joins the North London, having left French champions Paris Saint-Germain after guiding them to the Ligue 1 title. The Gunners’ Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis said that the 45-year-old was the "unanimous" choice to ...
Woman who needs to inject life-saving medication three times daily has been denied an NHS prescriptions for syringes – ‘due to cutbacks’
Charlotte Bonwick needs a variety of medication daily during her life-long battle with ill health - but says she was told to get her clean needles from an exchange usually used by drug addicts.
Advisor to former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon ‘was told to resign after sex assault allegation’
Richard Holden, 33, was working for Sir Michael when he was accused of groping a woman under her skirt at a Christmas party
M&S, and how the demise of the UK’s secondary towns is impacting our political climate
Good news is hard to come by on ITV's Tyne Tees channel. As industry is drained from the region the negative repercussions on communities in the area is there for all to see. Twenty-five years on from the closure of the last deep pit on the Durham coalfield many provincial ...
Closing down coal and oil-fired power stations ‘leads to healthier babies’
Study shows closing coal and oil-fired power plants lowers the rate of premature births in neighbouring communities - as well as improving fertility
James O’Brien: report proves Tories’ ‘hostile environment’ not just for immigrants, but Brits too
LBC’s James O’Brien has accused the government of creating a hostile environment for people who rely on welfare, just as they have done for immigrants. A welfare study today slammed the Tories’ welfare sanctions as disproportionately causing poverty and suffering, while failing to prove efficient at getting people into work. ...
“Big brother is watching you!” Study reveals benefit sanctions are ineffective
A new study had revealed that Government sanctions on benefit claimants have negative outcomes. The study of welfare conditionality discovered that the threat of sanctions, or the actual introduction of benefit cuts, did not help people get into work. The studies main finding is that “Benefit sanctions do little to ...