by Agency Reporter | Nov 10, 2023 | Briefing
ENVIRONMENTAL and consumer rights organisations have filed a legal complaint against food and drink giants Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Danone for the use of misleading ‘100 per cent recycled’ and ‘100 per cent recyclable’ claims on plastic water bottles sold across Europe....
by Agency Reporter | Nov 9, 2023 | Briefing
THE TUC has announced it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of campaigning against the Conservatives’ anti-strike laws on Saturday 9 December 2023. It is rare for the TUC to seek to convene the whole trade union movement at a special Congress...
by Staff Writer | Nov 9, 2023 | Briefing
NEW figures released by the Trussell Trust reveal that 1.5 million emergency food parcels were provided to people between April and September 2023, by food banks in the charity’s UK-wide network. This is the greatest number of parcels that the network has ever...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 8, 2023 | Briefing
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has responded to the government’s plans for the forthcoming parliament, as set out in the King’s Speech. Darren Baxter, Principal Policy Adviser for the JRF said: “3.8 million people experienced destitution in this country in...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 8, 2023 | Briefing
OXFAM is gravely concerned for the lives of around 500,000 Palestinians, alongside any of the more than 200 Israeli and other national hostages, currently trapped in a ‘siege within a siege’ in northern Gaza. Israeli forces have imposed a near-complete...
by Staff Writer | Nov 7, 2023 | Briefing
PEACE campaigners and white poppy wearers have rejected Rishi Sunak’s criticism of demonstrations planned for 11 November, saying his comments are, “a threat to peaceful protest and against the true spirit of Remembrance Day”. Mr. Sunak has said the...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 7, 2023 | Briefing
THE General Practitioners Committee (GPC) England passed a motion on 3 November expressing concern over the increasing trend of Physician Associates being used to replace GPs. Commenting, Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, chair of GPC England at the British Medical...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 6, 2023 | Briefing
WOMEN, children and newborns in Gaza are disproportionately bearing the burden of the escalation of hostilities in the occupied Palestinian territory, both as casualties and in reduced access to health services, warn the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 6, 2023 | Briefing
A LETTER signed by over 600 evangelicals in the Church of England has been published by Inclusive Evangelicals, a group formed to provide a unifying point for evangelicals who wish to welcome the place of LGBTQIA+ Christians within the full life of the Church. In...
by Staff Writer | Nov 5, 2023 | Briefing
THE Peace Pledge Union has launched its annual white poppy campaign, with the release of a statement in which it says: “When so many people in positions of power are distorting, belittling or dehumanising the suffering of others, it is vital that we remember...
