by Agency Reporter | May 5, 2021 | Briefing
SCIENTISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS have joined with education unions, parents, and students to write to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, expressing their concern at reported Government plans to stop requiring children to wear face coverings in secondary school...
by Agency Reporter | May 5, 2021 | Briefing
HOUSE PRICES in the least densely populated areas of the UK have risen almost twice as much as those in the most densely populated areas over the past year, which reflects both the pandemic prompting people to choose to live and work outside of busy cities, and the...
by Staff Writer | May 4, 2021 | Briefing
YOUNG PEOPLE IN EUROPE AGED 16-24 are being invited to take part in a film competition on the subject of human trafficking. The winning film will be shown at BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), and all three winning entries will be shown at the Royal...
by Agency Reporter | May 4, 2021 | Briefing
THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON POVERTY and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, has called for an ambitious social Europe, and insisted that the pandemic must spark a rethink of economic and social policies. “The devastating impact of Covid-19 serves as a stark...
by Agency Reporter | May 3, 2021 | Briefing
HARMONDSWORTH IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRE (IRC) near Heathrow, Europe’s largest detention facility, was found by inspectors to have limited the threat of Covid-19 to a population that had reduced significantly during the pandemic. The IRC can hold up to 635 adult male...
by Agency Reporter | May 3, 2021 | Briefing
THE CENTRAL FINANCE BOARD OF THE METHODIST CHURCH has fully divested from fossil fuel companies, after selling its remaining shares in Shell and Equinor. The decision followed advice received from the Methodist Church’s Joint Advisory Committee on the Ethics of...
