Joe Mellor

Joe Mellor

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In Pictures…Seals up close and friendly

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor  Wonder what a safari guy does in his time off? This seal dive in Cape Town was just the ticket and Simonstown seemed like a perfectly good place to launch the boat from bearing in mind that's the same place you launch to go out...

British people ‘will never forgive’ Blair, says poll

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There have already been rumours that the Chilcot inquiry will come down hard on Tony Blair, and a lot of the British people blame him for entering a war that was unnecessary and possibly illiegal. Recently Blair himself admitted that he “profoundly” underestimated the complexity...

Net migration rose to 3,000 off record level

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the EU referendum comes ever closer the news that annual net migration nearly hit record levels, will leave the “Brexiteers,” rubbing their hands with glee. The statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics, show that annual net migration in Britain rose to 330,000...

Take-home pay biggest in London…By far

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The streets of the capital are paved with gold, well not quite, but people who live in the capital have the most disposable income in the country, even when taking in sky-rocketing rents and the cost of buying a home spiralling out of control. The...

Conservative Party receive over half of all political donations

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Political donations are always a controversial topic and don’t sit well with most voters. Who is giving these gifts and why, are the questions most people wonder, when parties end up with huge sums of money. Well of all the political parties the Conservative Party...

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PMQs 25th May – The cries, moans and fears of the Brexiteers

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was stand in day, so our esteemed chancellor and Angela Eagle stepped in to take the reins, but both became whipping boys for the same issues that effect Cameron and Corbyn at every PMQs, who I’ve labelled “Camcor’, and I hate myself for it....

Richest pay less income tax than the worst off in Britain

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly the worst ten per cent of households actually paid back 47 per cent of their earnings back in taxes in 2014/15 compared to only 34 per cent for the richest ten per cent, reports the Mirror. The news will come as no shock to...

No official Murdoch attempt to lobby BBC…but Guardian did

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor During the charter renewal process there was no official attempt by Rupert Murdoch to lobby ministers, to stem the reach of the BBC, however the liberal Guardian newspaper did, reports the Independent. The Guardian aired its issue with the BBC’s online expansion and how it...

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