by Agency Reporter | Feb 18, 2022 | Briefing
WILDFIRES ARE BURNING more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches – disruptions in the timing of life-cycle stages in natural systems – are causing ecological consequences. These...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 18, 2022 | Briefing
NEW FIGURES from the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that 3.6 million children were in families on universal credit (UC) in November 2021. Because universal credit is set to rise by only 3.1 per cent this April, when inflation is expected to peak at...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 17, 2022 | Briefing
THE CHAIR of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Clive Betts, has written to the UK Secretary of State Michael Gove about the Chancellor’s recent announcement that millions of households in England will receive a council tax rebate. The rebates are...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 17, 2022 | Briefing
FIGURES RELEASED by the UK Government show that licences worth at least £42.6 million were issued for arms exports to Saudi Arabia between July and September last year, many of which will be used in the war in Yemen. Since the conflict escalated, nearly seven years...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 16, 2022 | Briefing
ENGLAND’S PLANNING SYSTEM is destroying nature and is in dire need of reform according to a new report published by the RSPB. In its current state the system is squeezing nature out and is running counter to the Government’s own goals for nature recovery through...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 16, 2022 | Briefing
ESSENTIAL BUS ROUTES in England and Wales may have to be axed from the end of next month if emergency government funding support is not extended, councils and bus operators are warning. Experts are warning of a 30 per cent reduction in current bus services when...
