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NHS business trip to Las Vegas cost over £58,000.

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 […]

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SNP Prison Mismanagement leads to the spectre of a mass release of prisoners.

The Scottish Government have been blasted for presiding over a “crisis” in prisons after it predicted that capacity levels would hit dangerous levels later this year. The estimation comes as SNP ministers face questions over their failure to build new jails on time and budget, allowing other premises to deteriorate. In a new publication posted on Tuesday, Humza Yousaf’s

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SNP Minister who quit over iPad scandal urged to refuse payout.

The public will be “outraged” if former health secretary Michael Matheson accepts a severance payment of almost £13,000, Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Tories, has said. Mr Matheson resigned from the Scottish Government role on the 8th of February following months of scrutiny over his parliamentary iPad bill of almost £11,000. He racked up

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Mounting Calls for a ban on the use of social media for children under 16

For years now, there have been calls from many, especially among concerned parents whose children spend hours every day glued to the screens of their phones or other devices, for stricter controls on children’s access to social media and the internet. The debate in the UK has gained impetus in recent days after Esther Ghey,

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Lincolnshire locals thwart more solar farms.

It’s been a while since we’ve reported on the scourge of solar farm planning, but I don’t think the problem has disappeared. This time, it’s reared its ugly head in Lincolnshire. AUK Energy proposed a solar farm spanning 80 hectares of farmland north of Roman Bank in Holbeach, categorised as the “best and most versatile

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The local council had stopped collecting rubbish.

After being informed that his local council had stopped collecting rubbish, leaving litter to blow all over a popular park, one of our activists decided to head out and clean it up himself. A crucial aspect of community politics is about setting an example for a people whom the incompetence of successive governments has left

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Labour Plans to Outlaw all forms of “conversion” therapy

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to outlaw all forms of conversion therapy if Labour wins the election. The Labour leader said his ban would be “trans-inclusive”, meaning it would ban attempts to change someone’s gender identity as well as their sexuality through conversion therapy. The Tories have promised to ban practices that attempt to change a person’s sexuality

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Multiple investigations into Calocane case

In January, we reported on Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham murderer, having his pleas for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility accepted by the prosecution. We are now able to provide an update to the story, as it seems several watchdogs and government offices are just as miffed as we are regarding the mishaps of

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EU Institute calls for an end to the use of Gendered Language.

The EU has urged legislators and policymakers to abandon ‘gendered language’ including “no man’s land”. Bureaucrats say the WWI phrase should be replaced with “unclaimed territory”, while “Joe Public” should instead be “average citizen”. A 61-page document compiled by the European Institute for Gender Equality outlines offending language and provides alternatives. Titled a “Toolkit on

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