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Study shows closing coal and oil-fired power plants lowers the rate of premature births in neighbouring communities - as well as improving fertility

LBC’s James O’Brien has accused the government of creating a hostile environment for people who rely on welfare, just as they have done for immigrants. A welfare study today slammed the Tories’ welfare sanctions as disproportionately causing poverty and suffering, while failing to prove efficient at getting people into work. ...

A new study had revealed that Government sanctions on benefit claimants have negative outcomes. The study of welfare conditionality discovered that the threat of sanctions, or the actual introduction of benefit cuts, did not help people get into work. The studies main finding is that “Benefit sanctions do little to ...

Trafficking gangs are bringing vulnerable women to work in “pop-up brothels” on a huge scale, in a worrying new development in the UK sex industry. Often these brothels are opened using short-term leases in residential areas. This gives the gangs a head start on the police and makes it easier ...

There were emotional scenes as bereaved began the Grenfell Tower Inquiry talking about the loved ones they lost in the tragic blaze last June. The inquiry began today with commemorations of those who perished. The first was by Marcio Gomes who lived on the 21st floor. He managed to escape ...

A group of MPs have signalled that dodgy Russian money flowing into the British banking sector is harming UK national security. Even after Salisbury attack, it appears to be business as usual, and the flow of illicit money has continued regardless of the tough talk from the highest levels of ...

Campaign group Blue Planet Society compiled the images to lobby the fast food chain to scrap balloons in addition to ditching single us plastic.

What is a terrorist? Someone who uses violence or intimidation for political ends? Noam Chomsky's remark ”It's only terrorism if they do it to us" points to the reason the UN have never been able to agree a definition – western governments and their allies routinely use violence and intimidation ...

We were trying to steer clear of the whole boring gammon controversy: whether it is racist to call the roaring pulmoan-ary purple-faced middle aged men bellowing stuff like “just-get-on-with-it” about Brexit on Question Time gammon-coloured or not. Especially when Kathy Burke nailed it: But then Matthew Hankins just wrote this ...