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Our £3.7bn a year bill for illegal immigrants' health and education  - The UK's huge bill for funding education and health for illegal immigrants was condemned by campaigners last night and prompted calls for further action to deal  ...

Schools urged to focus more on maths, spelling and grammar  - Schools will be encouraged to provide at least one extra maths lesson a week and place greater focus on spelling and grammar in English as part of a radical  ...

Inside the education job market: social media, raising standards and ...  - More than 10,000 teachers are registered with the company and 15,000 schools have used its services throughout the UK either as Select Education until 2010  ...

UK 'failing' women and children  - In the UK , one in four children live in poverty and just under than half of those reach a good level of development at age five, compared with two-thirds of children  ...

Capitalism v socialism: where does failure lie?  - Capitalism also brings poverty , economic ruin and misery. Today in the UK we have one in five of the population living below the poverty line. According to a  ...

Soaring UK energy bills mean thousands could die this winter  - With 4.5 million British families facing “fuel poverty ,” thousands could die this winter. “Britain is still the sixth leading economy in the world and that millions of  ...

Report suggests ways of cutting attainment gap  - Latest official figures show 29 per cent of UK children lived in absolute poverty after housing cost in 2011-12, which was two percentage points higher than in  ...

China doctor buried amid wave of hospital violence  - More than 1,000 mourners gathered at the funeral of a Chinese doctor on Thursday morning amid calls for urgent action to protect the country's medics following  ...

UK for probe on sexual violence  - The British government says it will press the Sri Lankan Government to investigate all human rights abuses, including the shocking allegations of acts of sexual  ...

Police launch major campaign as domestic violence figures rise  -  DOMESTIC violence has increased in Dorset with more than 6,200 incidents reported ... Figures suggest roughly one in four women will suffer domestic abuse at  ...

Domestic violence on increase in Ballymena  -  Domestic violence in the Ballymena area has shown an increase during the past ... UK ' when they were addressed by PSNI area commander Catherine Magee.

6 in 10 domestic violence survivors unable to access legal aid  - The charities say that the new evidence requirements for accessing legal aid for family law cases, which came into effect in April 2013, are too difficult for a large  ...

Sham workmen target homes of elderly women  - While one of the men kept the elderly woman talking, the other went upstairs to the bedrooms. The victim only later discovered a quantity of cash was missing.

Elderly are warned to raise the alarm over cold-call offer  -  ELDERLY residents in Sutton are being warned to be on their guard after conmen claiming to be able to offer personal alarms to vulnerable pensioners have  ...

Keighley firm family members 'ripped off' elderly  - Three members of a family have been banned from running any company after they admitted ripping off elderly and disabled customers at their Keighley-based  ...

Blood donor question angers councillor  - A total ban on gay men giving blood was lifted in 2011 but he argued under the ... to be at a statistically increased risk of acquiring blood-borne viruses in the UK .

ONS: Number of gay couples living together in Britain up by a third  - The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says the number of same-sex couples living together in the UK increased by almost a third since last year. In 2012, there  ...

Gay kiss 'easier' for Downton actor  - Downton Abbey star Rob James-Collier has said it is "easier" playing a gay character in the hit TV drama because his wife does not get jealous about his  ...

One Direction top list of Britain's most influential Tweeters  - Peerindex founder Azeem Azhar said 'For the Twitter 140, we focused only on whether other people in the UK were responding to, retweeting or engaging with a  ...

Yorkshire software firm set for largest UK tech listing in three years  - The largest UK tech initial public offering (IPO) in three years was announced ... software for both the mental health and community health sectors in England .

Mental health counselling on the NHS  - Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham is due to speak at a conference on mental health and wellbeing later today. He will state that “ mental health is the  ...

'Movember' moustache health fundraiser gets underway  - This year, for the first time in the UK , Movember will aim to raise awareness about men's mental health issues to bring the campaign into line with those run in  ...

Gay marriage issue as contentious as ever among Ulster public  - The News Letter took to the streets yesterday to garner views from members of the public on the contentious issue of gay marriage. Several who were asked for  ...

A Response to John Molyneux on Sexuality  - In the UK a lesbian couple can be recognised as parents of a child born following donor insemination. Transgender men have given birth in Germany, Israel, the  ...

Manchester: Community health centre receives LGBT award  - A medical centre in Manchester has received a bronze award for its efforts to be fully LGBT inclusive. The Lesbian & Gay Foundation (LGF) say Mauldeth Road  ...

Steep rise in primary school test marking queries  - Primary schools in England this year queried the results of more than 5,500 maths and reading tests taken by 10 and 11-year-olds, official figures show.

Elderly and lonely: Reaction to Jeremy Hunt claims  - One million British people have been classed as chronically lonely, and the condition increases the risk of illnesses like dementia and heart problems.

'Unacceptable' treatment of elderly patient at Princess of Wales ...  -  ... the Advanced Nurse Practitioner team from Princess of Wales Hospital won the prestigious UK -wide Nursing Times Award for Care of Older People last night.

Russian gay activists: IOC boss refused to meet  -  LGBT Network said in a statement that Thomas Bach turned down their invitation to sit with activists, offering to meet at an unspecified date in Lausanne,  ...

UK House of Commons to vote on pardoning Alan Turing  - The lower house of UK parliament will vote on pardoning gay World War II hero Alan Turing. John Leech, the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, confirmed  ...

Sharp rise in number of cohabiting gay couples  - The number of same-sex couples living together has increased by almost a third ... The number of gay and lesbian couples bringing up children has risen by  ...

Equality Commission Enters LGBT Debate  - Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where changes are not being considered. In England and Wales, same-sex marriages are expected to be held next  ...

ITV sitcom Vicious ranked as most watched show by young gay men  - It found that 36.6% of gay and bisexual men named Vicious as the programme they were most drawn to, followed by Splash, with 20.6%, and The Great British   ...