A homeless charity boss says she was told she wouldn't get Lottery cash - unless she stopped publicly criticising Universal Credit and the Government. Outspoken CEO Ellie Waugh, 53, applied for £130,000 from the Big Lottery Fund for charity Humanity Torbay. But she claims an official who came to assess the application then tried to ''gag'' her. Ellie makes YouTube videos and regularly publicly comments about homelessness and the impacts of the controversial new benefits. She claims the assessor said...
Nick Jackson caught the sublime spectacle on camera from Shropshire, during an Orionids meteor shower
David Gow left four dead cows "at varying states of decomposition" near Abingdon in Oxfordshire
Dr Francesca Carpos-Young is suing the Academy who she claims have ruined her reputation and said she was only telling students the kind of slang used in orchestras.
Wartime Britain saw the development of a “circular economy”, designed to save precious resources. Now, researchers at the University of Huddersfield argue there is an urgent need to develop a modern equivalent, to help eliminate supermarket food waste. They claim that cities and regions can reduce the burden of waste if they encourage circular thinking as a way of distributing unsold food, but central government policy lags behind the developments in technology that would enable it. The researchers have also...
Outspoken businessman and Apprentice host, Alan Sugar, blasted Boris Johnson and Michael Gove over their comments leading up to the Brexit vote, in 2016. He said the pair should be put in jail for lying and deceiving the public, especially regarding the £350m more to spend on NHS a week, post-Brexit. Sugar even claimed the referendum result should be classed as void, as the public were “totally misled.” He told the House of Lords: "No such process exists for claims...
Martin Stokes, 24, is accused of hit and run crash in Cricklewood
After PM announced the end of austerity, poll shows even Conservative voters think it’s time to give public sector workers a pay rise The British public overwhelmingly support measures to end austerity in next week’s Budget, exclusive polling by Survation for GMB reveals. The results also show a large majority of people (68%) backed a real terms pay rise for millions of public sector workers. Those polled also wanted the Chancellor to announce the following measures: Increased public investment in...
More people are worse off under Universal Credit, according to a report published by a cross-party committee of MPs. Following evidence given by organisations including Mind and anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust, the Public Accounts Committee has published their latest report which adds to the growing concern surrounding Universal Credit. Responding to the report, Director of External Relations at Mind, Sophie Corlett said:“Today’s hard-hitting report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) adds to mounting concerns about Universal Credit. The damning...
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