British Isles
Friday, 24 October 2014 01:00
British Ebola survivor Will Pooley returns to Sierra Leone
British Ebola survivor Will Pooley is returning to Sierra Leone where he contracted the virus, despite being told he may not be immune to it. Being a nurse Mr Pooley said that returning to help the…
Friday, 24 October 2014 01:00
UK Prison Service – a disgrace
Nelson Mandela said, ‘No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.’ The UK prison and probation ombudsman said he is ‘troubled’ and ‘appalled’ by the rising rates of prison suicide (125…
Friday, 24 October 2014 01:00
A million pensioners still living in poverty, says Age UK
More than a million pensioners are still living in poverty, partly due to their failure to claim benefits, the charity Age UK has claimed. In a new report it said, 1.6m pensioners in the UK are…
Friday, 24 October 2014 01:00
UK money laundering
Schools, universities, solicitors, estate agents and financial advisers are elements of a growing industry of ‘gatekeepers’ to the UK for foreign money launderers. Currently hundreds of law firms across the country are undergoing checks from their…
Friday, 24 October 2014 01:00
UK is lone parent capital of Western Europe
The UK has the highest rate of family breakdown in Western Europe, ‘alarming’ findings show. For the first time, the proportion of children living in single parent households has been found to be higher in the…
Friday, 17 October 2014 01:00
Trojan Horse schools 'not improved', Ofsted warns
There are still significant problems at the five Birmingham schools placed into special measures following concerns about a hard-line Islamist takeover. England's schools' watchdog Ofsted says the action plans are still ‘not fit for purpose’ in…