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High Court rules Universal Credit roll-out unlawfully impacting on men with disabilities
The High Court has judged that the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) cut the benefits for two severely disabled men when they moved onto universal credit. Both men saw a drop in their income of around £178 a month when they were placed on universal credit, instead of their old entitlements. The Government had acted 'unlawfully' by denying the men a 'top up' on their Universal Credit claim due to their severe disability. Lawyers for the men said the...
In pics – Britain was battered overnight by Storm Hector
The Met Office issued a Yellow Warning for Storm Hector
Two Bermudan nationals have appeared in court charged with terror offences
The duo, who appeared in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court, were arrested in Bury, Greater Manchester, after knives, axes and knuckledusters were found
UK’s first ever ‘Dutch style’ roundabout divides opinions between cyclists and drivers
£800,000 junction will bikes and pedestrians take precedence over cars
Elusive Negros bleeding heart dove photographed in the wild for the first time in many years
Conservationists from Bristol Zoological Society have confirmed a sighting of one of the rarest and most endangered birds in the world
Firefighters tackling a blaze at the top of a high rise building in Glasgow
The fire broke out at the tower block, on Ballater Street, this morning (Thur) with smoke seen billowing out across the area from around 8.30am.
“Ministers will rightly come under pressure today over the job losses at Rolls Royce,” says Union
These type of quality, well paid and skilled jobs will not be easily replaced - it will have a devastating impact on workers but also the economy says GMB union GMB, the union for manufacturing workers, has criticised the Government following the news of 1000s of Rolls Royce job losses. The engineering giant is to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years as part of a major reorganisation. Today, Secretary of State for business Greg Clark faces an urgent...
Extensive ice sheets ‘repeatedly covered much of the UK and Ireland’
New research reveals the British Isles were repeatedly submerged under an ice sheet extending to the centre of the North Sea over a million years earlier than previously thought
One of Britain’s biggest drug dealers convicted of being head of international smuggling & money laundering gang
Gangster James Mulvey, 42, lived a life of luxury from his lavish Spanish villa earning up to #75,000 a week