by Agency Reporter | Dec 5, 2023 | Briefing
THE Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has written to the government to express “serious concerns” about its anti-strike legislation breaching international law. The crossbench committee of MPs and Lords says that the government has failed to allay concerns about...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 4, 2023 | Briefing
NEW research by Citizens Advice finds more than one in four UK adults (28 per cent, the equivalent of 15.1 million people) say they are likely to use Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) to help with Christmas spending. This rises to 56 per cent of parents with primary...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 4, 2023 | Briefing
IN an unprecedented collaboration, five of the United Kingdom’s major Christian denominations are set to broadcast a special Christmas Carol Service on Sunday 10 December 2023. The event will be hosted on their respective Facebook Pages and YouTube Channels,...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 3, 2023 | Briefing
QUAKERS in Britain have offered their support to Ramallah Friends School in the wake of the shooting of three former students in Vermont. Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid, all aged 20, attended the 150-year-old Quaker institution in Palestine from...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 2, 2023 | Briefing
DELEGATES meeting at the COP28 talks in Dubai have agreed on the operationalisation of a fund that would help compensate vulnerable countries coping with loss and damage caused by climate change: a major breakthrough on the first day of this year’s UN climate...
