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What to do if you see someone you suspect is a rough sleeper in cold weather
Temperatures are set to drop below zero around the United Kingdom and already we have lost rough sleepers over the past few days. If you see a rough sleeper, please let them know that there is help on hand as the temperatures plummet dangerously. If you are concerned about someone sleeping rough in England or Wales you can contact www.streetlink.org.uk, download the free Streetlink app or call Streetlink on 020 7840 4430 and let them know the location and how well...
Private care provider who apologised after OAP left in agony all night…could be taken back into public sector hands
Bosses at one of Scotland's biggest care providers have apologised to a dying pensioner who was left in agony following a night of staff blunders. Robert McIntyre, 79, has bladder cancer and only months to live is visited four times a day by Cordia staff to have a catheter bag changed. But his daughter Jean says the assigned worker sent to his home did not empty her father's bag during her evening visit. They say that it is the second...
KFC “supplier” DHL “does the dirty by sacking loyal workers & slashing their redundancy”
The delivery company who have been involved with the almost complete shut down of KFC has been accused of mistreating its staff. The GMB union claims workers who have shown nothing but loyalty to DHL and are now being thrown out of their jobs through no fault of their own. GMB, the union for warehouse and distribution workers, has accused DHL of ‘doing the dirty’ after staff were given the double hammer blow of losing their jobs and their enhanced...
Tim Peake has been given the Freedom of his home city for leaving it behind – to go into SPACE
Space hero Tim Peake has been given another gong - the Freedom of the home city. The Army officer-turned spaceman collected the honour following his seven-month trip to the International Space Station, which launched in December 2015. The 45-year-old was given the Freedom of the City of Chichester, where he was born and went to school. He told a packed audience at the Chichester Festival Theatre that his upbringing in the city paved his pathway to space. Peake, the first...
‘Jobs and living standards first’ – reactions to Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit speech
As more Conservative MP’s threatened rebellion over Theresa May’s insistence on ruling out a customs union with the EU, Jeremy Corbyn today exposed how fragile her parliamentary majority is by setting out Labour’s red lines for Brexit. The Labour leader said he would work towards an economy that “works for the many, not for the few” and set out the practical reasons why he believes a customs union with the EU is necessary. Corbyn added that he would “not countenance”...
Italy next in line to be gobbled up by euro sceptic populism
A familiar wave of populist nationalism is set to take hold in Italy next week when the country goes to the polls. The Five Star Movement, which has been kept at bay until now by a centrist “grand coalition”, is expected to emerge from the election on March 4th as the largest party, bringing with them new eurosceptic tendencies that had previously been marginalised in the form of Forza Italia and the Northern League. Now, in a shift that has is well documented across...
Watch – Florida student fighting for gun control now has more followers than the NRA
It seems that the most recent mass shooting in the US has created a huge groundswell of support for gun control. On Valentine’s Day 17 people were killed in a senseless attack of innocent high school children. In the aftermath of the attack, Emma Gonzalez spoke out at an anti-firearms protest in Fort Lauderdale. Her 11 minute speech was so heartfelt that she has become a prominent voice in the anti-gun movement in the US and across the world. At...
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...