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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
These are the top 20 perks Brits want from employers
Private healthcare, an extra day’s holiday on their birthday and free gym membership are among the perks Brits want from employers, according to a study. Researchers polled 2,000 office workers to identify the benefits they would like to see from their place of work – including flexible working hours, a nice desk and staff discounts. Other desirables include company holidays away, being able to make personal calls at work and having space to be creative. However more than half of...
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 towns have become shadows of their former selves, with more than half of the shops on Easington high street now closed. Cushioning a short film on the effects of deindustrialisation on...
Boris Johnson demands a Brexit plane & it must be more colourful than PMs
Boris Johnson has decided he wants his own Brexit plane he can fly around the world to drum up new business. He feels the PM jet is never free to borrow and is a bit of a boring grey colour. Mr Johnson's comments come during his five-day tour of Latin America, hoping to drum up some post-brexit business Johnson said: “The taxpayers won’t want us to have some luxurious new plane, but I certainly think it’s striking that we don’t...
Pterosaurs flew like birds rather than bats
Discovery has implications for the evolution of flight
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. The study of welfare conditionality discovered that not only did the threat of sanctions, or the actual introduction of benefit cuts not help people get into work. It was more...
Conservatives are ‘joyless’ & ‘authoritarian’ says senior Tory
You might well think these comments have been made by any Labour party supporter, and probably a lot more besides, however in this case it was a senior Tory. Ruth Davidson, the Conservative leader in Scotland, has warned her own party that they need to, echoing the words of the ghost of PMs past, “chillax.” On Monday Ms Davidson said "Sometimes as Tories we just look a bit dour." "We look a bit joyless - is that fair? A bit...
“Being £900 worse off might not seem a lot to Tory cabinet ministers but for many it pays for family’s summer holiday”
GMB, Britain’s general union, has criticised the Government’s approach to Brexit after Mark Carney told MPs that the vote to leave the EU referendum has so far cost each UK household £900. The governor of the Bank of England made his remarks while giving evidence of a committee of MPs, stating his belief that the effects of the EU referendum in June 2016 had lowered the UK's GDP by 2%. Carney said: “If you look at where the economy is...