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Labour MP Frank Field told the House of Commons a harrowing story all too typical around the country - everyone should watch this: "We need a root and branch reform of PIP (Personal Independence Payments - the Conservatives replacement of Disability Living Allowance). One of the people who came to 'Feeding Birkenhead' foodbank was doubly incontinent because of cancer. "She got a Nil rating for PIP. "Whilst she needed food, she also needed nappies. "When she didn't turn up after a few days,...

Gig economy workers juggle as many as two or more jobs at the same time, according to new research. One in three hold at least two jobs, while one in 14 hold three or more. And one in ten undertake seasonal work or employment during the holidays. The research also revealed that more women have just one form of gig work than men (55 per cent vs 42 per cent), whereas more men hold three to five gig jobs than...

Today the US President Donald Trump is expected to drop climates change from this list of global threats in his updated National Security Strategy. Obama, as President, had pushed for climate change to be seen as a threat to the nation. The Federalist website quoted the draft document as stating: “US leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth energy agenda that is detrimental to US economic and energy security interests. “Much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as...

Reports of a Tory plot to pull the UK out of the EU Working Time Directive could see 7 million workers in the UK lose rights to paid holidays, GMB has warned today. Brexit hardliners are today expected to demand Theresa May ditches safeguards post-Brexit which were designed by the EU to protect employees from working excessive hours. Michael Gove is among the staunch Brexiters wanting Britain to scrap the working time directive which stops staff in most jobs from working more than...

Last night on Question Time this heated argument erupted between a landlord – buying and doing up council housing and renting it out – and another audience member who accused him of adding to the problem of Margaret Thatcher’s right to buy your council home legacy. – A legacy which is generations homeless and in temporary accommodation waiting for social housing – the vast majority of which is now in the hands of professional private landlords rather than the families...

Desperate parents are pleading for help to cure their six-year-old daughter of a rare cancer that causes her eyes to bleed - and POP OUT. Brave Dhanika Tripura, six, was seemingly totally healthy until just six weeks ago when her eye area started to swell up, with blood building up beneath her skin. Medics diagnosed acute lymphocytic leukaemia and she needs £11,550 to pay for specialist treatment to save her life. Her desperate parents Dhanya Kumar Tripura, 45, and Shashikala,...

Over the last seven years of austerity the number of homeless people has sky rocketed. Around 80,000 families, couples and single people have been forced to live in temporary accommodation, as they have no home to call their own. The number of households living in temp accommodation was 79,190 in September. This figure includes numerous families who lost their homes in the Grenfell Tower frire. Back in December 2010 the number was under 50,000, a large figure but the increase...

A man is selling a Brexit number plate after being warned he won't get his Christmas dinner if he puts it on his car. Mark Hoyle, 58, bought the registration X17 BRE for his black VW Golf. Mark Hoyle is selling a Brexit number plate after being warned he won't get his Christmas dinner if he puts it on his car. But after the ultimatum from his partner he has stuck it on Gumtree for £750. Mark, of Torquay, Devon...

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines - three Republicans vs two Democrats to end Net Neutrality and the principle of a free internet that everyone can access equally. - A principle that heralded an era of innovation, freedom of speech and new forms of communication and social organisation predicated on everybody’s voice being able to be heard equally online. The Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai had been appointed by President Trump, an opponent of...