Month: February 2018

Individuals could take their 'dividend' from the fund at a time of their choosing over the course of a decade to meet challenges such as starting a business, combining work with care and improving skills Via: Ministers should consider universal fund allowing individuals to claim £10,000 over two-year period, according Read more…

Inspectors describe 'abject failure' to provide safe, decent and purposeful regime at HMP Liverpool two years after issuing stark warning that jail was not safe Via: Liverpool jail 'worst inspectors have ever seen' after no improvements made since last watchdog report

The Institute of Directors says the deal would facilitate the flow of goods across UK-EU borders, but also allow UK to forge its own trade agreements Via: UK business leaders push for 'hybrid' post-Brexit trade deal with a 'partial customs union'

It comes as ministers mull new 'use it lose it' powers to force landowners to develop sites Via: Developers leave 420,000 homes with planning permission unbuilt, new figures show

'There's no fairness, compassion or common sense in locking vulnerable people up and giving them no idea of when they might see their friends and family again' Via: Religious leaders attack Home Office for Britain being only European country to detain immigrants with no time limit

In an extraordinary public statement, deputy PM hits back at prime minister over remarks about his affair with a staffer • It’s ‘open season’ on Malcolm Turnbull, seething Joyce supporters sayThe fractured relationship between the Coalition leaders has lurched into a full-blown political crisis, with Barnaby Joyce labelling Malcolm Turnbull’s Read more…

José Irandir Cardoso was one of six convicted over killing of leading sailor in Brazil in 2001Brazilian police on a remote Amazon river island have arrested a man involved in the murder of round-the-world sailor Sir Peter Blake in 2001. José Irandir Cardoso had been a fugitive for the last Read more…