by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2024 | Briefing
US Christians for Ceasefire engaged in a prayerful nonviolent action in a military zone near the crossing into Gaza on 18 August. The 12 US and three Palestinian Christian leaders appealing for a just peace were confronted by Israeli guards at the Kerem Shalom...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2024 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from Citizens Advice reveals that one in four people (25 per cent, the equivalent of 16.5 million people) are so worried about increases in energy costs that they say they will be forced to turn off their heating and hot water this winter. This increases...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2024 | Briefing
THE Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, as the September deadline for the closure of the Household Support Fund approaches. The Household Support Fund (HSF) provides payments to help people in poverty...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2024 | Briefing
A TOTAL of 96 cases of people being detained or arrested for opposing the controversial East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have been reported in the past nine months, with the number of arrests surging recently. In December 2023, Global Witness released a report,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 20, 2024 | Briefing
THE number of students accepted onto nursing degrees in England has fallen 20 per cent in three years, and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is urging the government to intervene and overhaul ‘failing’ nurse recruitment policy. On A-level results day, the numbers...
by Staff Writer | Aug 20, 2024 | Briefing
ALMOST two thirds of flights (64 per cent) from London City Airport in 2019 could have been completed in one or two train journeys, analysis from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and environmental charity Possible has found. As the Labour government approved the...
