Oswestry is a town in North Shropshire with a proud market trading heritage – a place where people have long come to visit from a large rural hinterland that stretches across the countryside and over into Wales. Yet when I read the
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – WH Smith is to provide investors with a £50m windfall as holidaymakers snapping up travel essentials allowed a boost in summer sales at the retail chain. The retailer stated it would launch a £50m share buyback an
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – The NHS fails the old in their hour of need, a landmark report has discovered. The study by Lord Darzi, a surgeon and an ex-health minister, will lay bare the lack of care provided to the most
Manchester (London Parliament Politics Magazine) – Mayor Andy Burnham has pledged to scale up measures to give rough sleepers homes in Greater Manchester in a proposal to follow Finland in slashing homelessness via a Housing First scheme. Around 400 people have been
Rishi Sunak turned up the heat on his successor Sir Keir Starmer over his party’s decision to scrap winter fuel payments to millions of pensions. In a heated exchange during PMQs, the former Prime Minister challenged the Labour Government to publish “the
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A Met Police officer has been dismissed after he employed “entirely inappropriate” antisemitic language while talking to a colleague. PC Morgan Griffiths, a ward officer based in Dagenham, was discovered to have perpetrated gross misconduct following his
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Infringements of personal data in UK court proceedings have rushed to more than 10,000 in a year, with the dramatic growth being blamed on new digital systems in justice. Court attendants and lawyers have been mistakenly uploading
Great Manchester (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Mayor Andy Burnham has expressed that more pensioners should be able to maintain their winter fuel allowance. The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester stated Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, must not rule out altering the proposed threshold
Expected to reach 44% of online purchases by 2025, Brazil’s instant payment system and its growth will be key topics at EBANX’s Payments Summit, starting on September 18 in four countries CURITIBA, BRAZIL, September 10, 2024 – Brazil’s instant payment system Pix
Today the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer will promise the Trade Union Congress (TUC) that his government will work to bring unions and business together with a shared purpose to deliver national renewal. Addressing TUC delegates in Brighton, he will say he
I was happy to bring this debate to Parliament last week as the SEND system is failing some of the country’s most vulnerable children. My inbox is full to the brim with parents who are concerned about the wellbeing of their child
The debate around the taxation of Independent Schools all too often produces an argument centred on the money the Government hopes to raise from imposing VAT. Those in favour argue that it could raise up to £1.5 billion, while others dismiss this
