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The US food assistance program offered expanded benefits during the Covid emergency, but they ended last monthGina Melton is facing a dilemma. Like millions of other Americans, Melton and her family relied on food assistance benefits boosted by Congres…
Move follows pressure from campaigners such as Julie Devey and Carole Gould whose daughters were murderedDomestic abusers in England and Wales who kill their partners or ex-partners are to face tougher sentences under government plans after a campaign …
The deal on offer is a major climbdown by the government, but only long after the writing was on the wallPolitics live – latest updatesThursday’s pay offer marks a significant victory for the thousands of NHS workers in England who have manned the pick…
Offer includes two one-off payments – 2% bonus and 4% Covid payment – plus pay rise of about 5%Health unions hailed a historic victory on Thursday, after Steve Barclay made a significant new pay offer aimed at ending NHS strikes in England, in a climbd…
The 138-year-old theatre helped launch careers of many northern English actorsArts bodies have decried the “devastating” news that one of Britain’s oldest theatres, the Oldham Coliseum, will close in two weeks after being stripped of its government fun…
Novo Nordisk found to be in breach of ABPI code of practice over sponsored weight-loss courses that promoted its medicinesThe company behind the slimming jab Wegovy has been suspended from the UK’s pharmaceutical trade association after a row over spon…
Offer to unions involved in strikes in England expected to include one-off payment of up to 6% for this yearPolitics live – latest updatesThe health secretary, Steve Barclay, is expected to announce a formal pay offer to key unions involved in NHS stri…
Exclusive: Union decries failure to publish statistics as Labour claims ministers ‘burying their heads in the sand’ over attacksNHS staff have accused Steve Barclay of breaking a pledge to publish details of how many of them are abused and assaulted in…
Civicus Monitor cites hostility towards campaigners and charities, and clamp down on public protestsThe UK has been downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose rest…
Widening inequality blamed for UK lagging behind all other countries in G7 except the USLife expectancy in the UK has grown at a slower rate than comparable countries over the past seven decades, according to researchers, who say this is the result of …