A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that a business trip to Las Vegas for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) NHS Trust staff cost over £58,000. The Essex-based Trust sent a team, including two Board Directors, to attend a conference which was taking place in the American city. The conference, which took place in September […]
NHS business trip to Las Vegas cost over £58,000. Read More »
For reasons that are becoming increasingly difficult to fathom, Nottingham is considered to be a tourist hotspot, generally receiving the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. From a historical perspective, you could see why some unwitting tourists might place it relatively high on their bucket
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Some leading universities are using recruitment agents to offer places to overseas students with significantly lower grades than UK applicants, it was reported on Saturday. An undercover investigation by The Sunday Times found that 15 Russell Group universities offered one-year “pathway” courses, or foundation programmes, which the newspaper said provided privileged access to competitive degree courses. It
Top British Universities offer places to foreign students with lower grades. Read More »
Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham murderer of Ian Coates, 65, Barnaby Webber, 19, and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, has had his pleas of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility accepted at court on Tuesday. Back in June 2023, Calocane repeatedly stabbed two young University of Nottingham students as they were walking back to their student accommodation. Around an
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“This week our activists in the North East of Scotland have been out delivering over 500 leaflets for our #DundeeNeglect campaign. Dundee has the highest drug deaths in Europe and some of the most impoverished areas in the country and the SNP have completely neglected the city. Our first minister seems more concerned with diverting
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Some of you may have been watching the ongoing drama between the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, also known in the UK as a Punch and Judy show. As it stands now, the Conservative Party’s proposal to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda has been deemed unlawful. But what exactly does that entail? And where does
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The national archive has released official papers which suggested Tony Blair was considering sending asylum seekers to the Isle of Mull to help drive down the numbers entering the UK. The papers released under the 20-year rule said that a top aide to the former prime minister considered this a “nuclear option” for tackling the
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As 2023 draws to a close, we’re pleased to end the year with some positive news, which bodes well for 2024. A hotel housing asylum seekers in Standish has closed three months earlier than planned. Kiley Court Hotel in Wigan was only designated as a spot to house migrants in August, but uproar from local
Hotel to start removing asylum seekers three months earlier than planned. Read More »
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has expressed her frustrations as home secretary. Now freed from the restrictions of high office, Braverman reveals that she has been fighting a series of behind-the-scenes battles on key policies since her appointment last year – and not only those directly relating to the work of the Home Office. She
Braverman admits multiculturalism has failed. Read More »
It almost feels like flogging a dead horse when writing about the migrant crisis. Such is the extent that we’ve covered the topic. But such a problem warrants continual attention, especially when we get headlines like the above. Surprisingly, it’s the BBC who have broken this story, who are usually less than candid on the
Almost 300 migrants crossed the English Channel in one day. Read More »
