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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. Eagle argued that the Conservative are split down the middle over the EU, Osborne quite rightly pointed out that the Labour Party is hardly a picture of unity. Osborne referred...

A £2 million tech hub has opened its doors in South London as part of the government’s significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration of Croydon. ‘TMRW’ opened today with financial backing from Croydon Council and the Greater London Authority. The new hub will provide state of the art facilities and a rich ecosystem for the capital’s most progressive technology businesses looking to scale up and grow fast. This is part of the government’s (and industry’s) significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration...

Muslim Polygamy website is now attracting British men An on-line service to help Muslim men find second wives is attracting a substantial number of sign-ups. The site boasts of being the first site of its kind and aims to help men find more wives, whether their current partners know about this, we don’t know. The site SecondWife.com has reached its 25,000 new member. The site is actually the most popular polygamy website in the UK and then the US in terms...

Ashford in Kent is on track to get a £4 million model railway centre which is expected to attract up to 500,000 visitors a year to South East England. The local council has agreed to provide a secured loan to purchase land for its new home which will allow Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre (AIMREC) to buy land at the former Klondyke railway works. This will assist AIMREC to raise funds to press ahead with their ambitious plans to build a model railway...

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 the households who struggle to feed themselves and regularly use food banks even though one or both members of the family will have paid employment. In the UK having a...

A sustained period of low interest rates is fuelling widespread investment fraud, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), with over 55s most at risk. With interest rates set to remain at 0.5 per cent well into 2020, savers are adopting riskier investment behaviour to get more bang for their buck. Four in ten people aged over 55 have moved money out of savings and into investments in a bid to get a better rate of return, with 23 per cent saying they are considering investing...

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 was going to impact on the media group’s own commercial interests. The Guardian had warned that the BBC was at the “mercy of a culture secretary who has never hidden...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Another day another claim about Brexit, and what could happen to the UK economy if we decided to leave. Today was the turn of the IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies) who have said that leaving the EU would mean the Treasury would have to slash billions of pounds from British welfare and public services. The IFS believe that in the case of a “Brexit” there would be years of austerity and tax rises, which would...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A damning report has just been released which has revealed the harsh effects of benefit cuts on a community. The research has brought to light the every day struggles that benefit sanctions bring on people and their family, pushing them into crime and causing serious mental health issues, even suicide. The Independent reported some research by Salford City Council into the serious negative effects from benefit cuts and sanctions. The report found that reductions in...