by Agency Reporter | Jan 15, 2024 | Briefing
LOW-INCOME families in Manchester are to be protected from being chased by bailiffs over Council Tax debt, following a ground-breaking decision by Manchester City Council. On 11 January, Manchester City Council’s Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee voted to...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 14, 2024 | Briefing
ON 11 January, public hearings commenced in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on allegations against the State of Israel of violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. World Council of Churches (WCC) General...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 13, 2024 | Briefing
BRITISH pacifists have called the attack by the US and UK on Houthi targets in Yemen a dangerous and irresponsible escalation in a conflict that threatens to engulf the Middle East. They have accused the UK government of ‘imperial arrogance’ and jeopardising regional...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 13, 2024 | Briefing
THE Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest data on life expectancy in the UK. Life expectancy at birth in the UK in 2020 to 2022 was 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for females. Compared with 2017 to 2019, life expectancy has fallen by 38...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 12, 2024 | Briefing
ON Saturday 13 January hundreds of thousands of people are expected to demonstrate in London on a National March for Palestine. They will be joining millions more who will be marching in more than 66 cities, in at least 36 countries across six continents, in a global...
