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BA workers walked out on strike today in pursuit of higher pay for members of the so-called "mixed fleet" who are being paid "poverty wages" according to the union. According to Unite salaries for mixed fleet staff start at a lowly £12,000, despite the parent company of British Airways forecasting annual profits in the region of £2.3 billion. Some members of staff are reportedly doing two to three jobs on their days off to make ends meet, or sleeping in their cars between shifts because...

It didn’t feel great to read about “Fat Cat Wednesday” just as the January depression was about to kick in. To know that UK top bosses earned more in two and a half days than most will make in the whole of 2017, made me want to crawl back into bed, i doubt I was alone. There was a fairly strong public outcry at this shocking statistic, so riding on the back of that Jeremy Corbyn, today, announced he would...

The UK vote for Brexit showed Europe that the UK wanted to stand alone as a united Britain outside of Europe. However, a new study indicates that more people now think of themselves as English rather than British. The YouGov statistics found that nearly 20 per cent of people think of themselves as English rather than British, this shows a 5 per cent increase since 2015. Additionally the number of people thought of themselves as British over English also fell...

The Czech Republic is a country of around ten million people with fewer than four thousand Muslims, however this didn’t stop Czech President, Milos Zeman, urging people to arm themselves in case a “super-holocaust” by Muslim extremists. Unlike most European states, the Czech Republic has a large number of citizens who own firearms. Currently there are around 300,000 people who have a weapon license and it is thought there are 800,000 weapons owned legally in the country. Obtaining a weapon...

PM May’s first major interview of 2017 sent the pound into free fall after she made comments hinting at a “hard-Brexit.” She told Sky News that the UK will not try and keep “bits of EU membership.” During the interview she said: “Often people talk in terms as if somehow we are leaving the EU but we still want to kind of keep bits of membership of the EU. We are leaving. We are coming out. We are not going...

Remain is down in Scotland, Leave is up in every English region and is unchanged in London. By all accounts, the notion of Brexit buyers' remorse following a rocky and calamitous start to negotiations could be misguided. That's according to a new poll conducted by Saga which shows Brexit support is up two per cent overall among over-50s, as well as being up in every English region. Meanwhile Remain support in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is down. The poll, leaked on political blogsite...

Managing money stress: 8 top tips to help manage your finances Almost half of people in the UK are said to be suffering from stress in some form and the most common cause of this stress is money. Yet, if you are feeling that money is an issue for you then you don’t need to suffer in silence. There are things you can do to wrest back control. Here are eight top tips for you to try… Have a spending...

A road in South London has already reached, and breached, the annual pollution limit for the entirety of 2017 just five days into the new year.  Brixton Road, the busy main road that cuts through Brixton, nitrogen dioxide levels have already exceeded EU limits set for an entire year. The road is often full of buses passing through Brixton into Central London, often leaving a large number sitting in traffic jams as the road bottlenecks, as it goes through the...

A report has revealed the shocking level of loneliness of the elderly people in the UK. Figures from Age UK found that for half a million people aged over 60 for up to 6 days a week without speaking or even seeing anyone. There is a hidden army of people who are totally isolated from society and are suffering in silence. In response Age UK has launched a report titled “'No one should have no one: working to end loneliness...