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Poverty survey paints bleak picture of life in UK : The Poverty and Social Exclusion report, the biggest survey of deprivation across the UK , found that a third of adults now suffer from some form of financial insecurity, with more than a quarter admitting they can neither save £20 a month nor put money ... Scotsman

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Cannabis so rife in Cambridge we should open a ghetto claims ... Cannabis is currently classified as a class B drug in the UK Most caught with small amounts escape prison sentence with a written warning while those caught ...

Cardinal Wuerl: LGBT people should 'make room' for Catholics who ... The Archbishop of Washington on Easter Sunday said that he was concerned that Catholics would be shunned for opposing same sex marriage — and that it was gay and lesbian Americans who need to “make room” for the very people ...

UK: Leading black Pentecostal pastor backs equal marriage for same-sex couples The Reverend Paul Bailey has become one of the first black church leaders to back the introduction of same-sex marriage in England and Wales. Mr Bailey, who leads the Regeneration Project, an inclusive Pentecostal church in Mitcham, south London, said ...

Rise of the one-child families : The average British family had 1.7 children last year compared with two in 1971, it said. Karen Gask, who compiled the report for the ONS, said: ''The number of one- child families is increasing, but that is partly because of women delaying having ... Telegraph.co.uk

Tougher tests for social housing : The Prime Minister is to set out a tougher approach on housing and benefits, promising to tackle the culture of "something for nothing", in a keynote speech on immigration on Monday. Councils currently have powers to impose local residency tests for ...

MPs say England needs to come to the devolution party : A committee of MPs has recommended the setting up of a UK -wide constitutional convention to try to answer the question: "What do we want the UK to look like in 10 or 20 years time?" The convention, an idea previously suggested by the Welsh First ...

Devolution needs a UK-wide strategy to avoid English resentment, say MPs : Labour is also considering greater devolution to Scotland and within the UK in policy reviews being carried out by both the Scottish and UK parties. The Liberal Democrats are working on similar proposals, which is expected to see greater agreement ... The Guardian

Immigration fears are being stoked by politicians says bishop | UK ... : ... as PM prepares new crackdown on access to social housing . ... Studies show that the vast majority of new arrivals to the UK enhance and enrich our ...

Government axes homeless advisors | News | Inside Housing : The government has scrapped its team of expert homelessness advisors despite a dramatic increase in the problem.

Madonna's homeless brother lashes out at superstar sister : Hitting out at his superstar sibling, whose net worth was this week estimated at $1 billion, Ciccone tells the MailOnline.co. uk , "Madonna doesn't give a s**t if I'm dead or alive. She lives in her own world. I never loved her in the first place, she ... Orange UK News

Kia 'won't sell Provo car in UK' : The South Korean car manufacturer Kia has said it does not plan to sell a model called the 'Provo' in the UK . Earlier this week, the firm unveiled a model using the name, often used for the Provisional IRA during the Northern Ireland Troubles. That ... BBC News

LGBT People Will Receive First-Ever Domestic Violence Protections Under VAWA Our guest bloggers are Christopher Frost, Intern, and Katie Miller, Special Assistant, with the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. Today, Congress finally voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, ...

UK police: Russian tycoon Berezovsky found dead : FILE - A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaking to the media in a news conference in London. United ... News & Observer

Tough new housing rules to control immigration - News ... - Gov.uk : UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies ... Fair play for social housing and denying illegal migrants rented homes. Social housing ...

Literature and poverty: It's time for Mohsin Hamid to tell us how he ... Earlier this week I was thumbing through a range of books published by The Economist in a publisher while waiting to see someone. Not as dull as it sounds. The pocket World in Figures 2013 includes a cornucopia of country profiles that ...

Council tax increases 'set to hurt the poorest families' : More than two million of the poorest families in the UK face large increases in their council tax bills from next week, warns the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). Research from the charity found 2.4 million low-income families will pay an average of ...

Northern Ireland's ban on gay marriage to be challenged by Amnesty ... : Legal fight vowed with only place in UK that excludes LGBT people yet first gay civil partnership ceremony was in Belfast. United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

US: Gay NFL player plans to come out and keep playing : According to Mike Freeman of CBS Sports, players and straight NFL allies Scott Fujita and Brendon Ayanbadejo have been “working diligently to create a safe atmosphere for the day history will happen: when an openly gay man will be a member of an NFL ...

Suffolk: Homelessness summit held today as charity bosses criticise building rates Experts from across the region will gather in Bury St Edmunds today to discuss the size of the homelessness problem in the east of England and how to cope with it. The National Housing Federation, whose report anticipated a spike in homelessness as a ...

Housing associations warn benefit reforms will increase homelessness Benefit reforms could leave vulnerable tenants with mounting rent arrears and ultimately leave them homeless , housing associations have warned. The UK Government's new universal credit will give claimants a lump sum of cash which they are expected to ...

World Tuberculosis Day 2013: The second biggest global killer : ... link with HIV / AIDS ), as well as cramped living conditions and limited access to treatment. One of the major challenges is trying to alleviate the devastating effect TB has the third world. However, Nuttall told me that alarmingly, cases of the ... The Independent (blog)

Latin America's violence against transgender women hinders HIV efforts : In the same period 35 transgender people were killed in Guatemala with only one person undergoing legal proceedings,” wrote Dr. Alvaro Bermejo, Executive Director, International HIV / AIDS Alliance in the Huffington Post UK's blog. Other key findings of ...

Suicide is 'biggest killer of men' in UK : CALM, which was set up to prevent male suicide in the UK , has informed that in 2011 suicide accounted for the deaths of more young men in England and Wales than road death, murder and HIV / AIDs combined. The Campaign Against Living Miserably insists ... RT

US radio host suggests that because Hillary Clinton supports gay rights, she ... The host of a US radio station has claimed that Hillary Clinton could be gay , and said that she was “shocked” that, at a UN conference, there were “tents on lesbian lovemaking”. Sandy Rios of the American Family Association, spoke in response to Mrs ...

Queen To Sign Historic Gay And Equal Rights Charter The Queen of England is to sign a historic new charter to promote gay rights and gender equality, as part of her role as head of the Commonwealth — the name given to 54 countries around the world who give their allegiance to the monarchy. The Queen ...

New York's Cardinal Dolan says gay people are 'entitled to friendship' only Asked about gay marriage in a week when the US supreme court heard two cases regarding same sex marriage, the archbishop of New York told ABC's This Week: "We want your happiness. You are entitled to friendship. But we also know that God has told ...

Theresa May's statement on the UK Border Agency: Politics live blog The reason why the British government has been pretty negative about it is mainly on grounds of practicality and the other reason we have been sceptical about it, of course, is that most of the revenue would be generated in the UK and under the ...

US Church: North Korean aggression caused by God because of 'gay marriage ... North Korea says that it does not discriminate against LGBT people although it rejects parts of ' gay culture'. An official document released by the government sponsored Korean Friendship Association says : “DPRK (The Democratic People's Republic of ...

Gay Politics — Congress could get 8th LGBT member this year If elected, Sciortino would become the eighth openly LGBT member of the 213th Congress, setting a new record for the most out members ever to serve on ...

UK: Printer claims working with LGBT magazine would contradict his ... The editor of an LGBT magazine in Northern Ireland said he was "hurt" by a printer's refusal to work with him on the grounds that he was "not comfortable" associating with the magazine's target audience.