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Would she be paid more if she was posh? Steph McGovern criticises class bias at BBC
A BBC presenter has questioned the class bias at the public service broadcaster and has asked for class, as well as ethnic diversity, to be the focus going forward. Steph McGovern, who is from Middlesbrough, questioned whether the BBC does enough to promote working class people into the top jobs. She told the Sunday Times: “We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It’s dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC...
He did ok out of Carillion! Finance chief sold £750,000 of shares before collapse
In news which will anger huge swathes of the public, not the least the staff who have lost their jobs since the collapse of the outsourcing giant; it has been revealed a top exec at the company made a killing before Carillion’s demise. Richard Adam was the finance director between April 2007 and December 2016, sold off shares between 1 March 2017 and 8 May 2017. He cashed them in for £775,921 only twelve months later they would be worth...
Four people dead and possibly more trapped after building explosion in Leicester
Firefighters and rescue teams working around the clock to search through the rubble by hand in desperate search for survivors
Jeremy Hunt awarded “Humanitarian Award” for patient safety
Jeremy Hunt has been awarded a Humanitarian Award for patient safety despite overseeing the biggest crisis in the history of the National Health Service. The Health Secretary was awarded the accolade for his global leadership on patient safety at the World Patient Safety Summit this weekend. According to Nursing Notes, previous winners of the award include President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Patrick H. Conway – all of whom worked tirelessly towards free and equal access to healthcare...
A thug who threatened to stab a pregnant hairdresser with a needle infected with AIDS during a terrifying robbery has been jailed for nine years
Colin Young, 35, burst into a hair salon wearing a mask and demanding cash
Passers-by try in vain to save rough sleeper from sub-zero temperatures in Edinburgh
The man slept next to another man on a pair of discarded mattresses in the centre of Edinburgh in temperatures as low as -5C at night.
Dominic Chappell who bought the BHS chain for £1 has outgoings three times his income, court hears.
Claims he would need to take out a loan for any fine he gets for failing to disclose information to pensions regulators.
Iain McNicol mysteriously quits as Labour Party General Secretary
There was speculation after Iain McNicol announced that he would be standing down as the General Secretary of the Labour Party on Friday evening. The shock resignation had not been anticipated even by many of his close colleagues. He will stay in his role until the Labour NEC recommends a successor to be announced at the next party conference. Jennie Formby and Andrew Murray of the Unite union have both been mentioned as possible successors. Both are close to Jeremy Corbyn....
Labour MPs blame own party for robbing Parliament of medicinal cannabis vote
Today veteran MP Paul Flynn’s Private Member’s Bill that would have paved the way for Alfie Dingley, 6, who has a sever form of epilepsy and others like him to legally receive the medicinal cannabis they urgently need was filibustered by Tory and Labour MP’s. Speaking outside parliament Newport West MP Paul Flynn and his Welsh Labour colleague Tonia Antoniazzi fumed at their own party for letting down those Alfie whose case they had championed in Parliament. Paul Flynn said...