A new tool has been released which reveals how individual schools have been hit by government cuts. Some £2.8 billion has been cut from school budgets since 2015. That equates to an average of £54,000 cut per primary school and 205,600 per secondary school. A new School Cuts App shows ...
The UK has nine out of the ten poorest regions in northern Europe, with suggestions that the rapid industrial decline brought about under Margaret Thatcher is chiefly responsible for creating pockets of poverty in one of the World's richest economies. West Wales, Durham and Tees Valley, South Yorkshire and Northern Ireland ...
The combustible cladding installed during the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was like “petrol”, experts have said. Speaking at the public inquiry into the fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, Stephanie Barwise QC said the scale of the disaster suggested failures “at every level of design and construction” of ...
MPs will have just 12 hours to debate 15 crucial amendments to the Brexit bill, including the customs union, the date and time of the exit and Northern Ireland. The latest amendments from the House of Lords will circle back to the Commons on 12 June, but with a working majority ...
Officers will be patrolling airports in a bid to prevent any of the estimated 1,900 hooligans subject to bans from attending the Russia World Cup.
The UK parliamentary constituencies most at risk from Donald Trump’s steel tariffs have been revealed in new analysis. Trump protectionist administration has slapped a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminium, citing national security interests. Britain's steel industry directly contributes £2 billion to ...
Airlines are facing a call for an international criminal inquiry into toxic exposure of crew and passengers. Campaigners are calling on anybody who may have suffered ill health linked to chemicals on board passenger jets to be part of an international inquiry into toxins in cabin air. John Hoyte, chairman ...
Safaa Boular, 18, planned to use a pistol and grenade at the British Museum after her passport was seized to stop her joining her 32-year-old IS fighter husband
It was with a dismissive sweep that Nigel Farage mentioned that he would just leave Britain if Brexit was a disaster. Speaking on his LBC show the outspoken campaigner claimed he never "promised that it would be a huge success", just that "we will be self-governing". "That’s the point", he said. ...