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North-south divide widens despite overall rise in jobs  -  Britain's economic divide between north and south is alive and kicking ... Long-term unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds has also doubled in the ...

Campaign aims to end plight of lonely  - However, the charity told her Age UK Notts may be able to help with its visiting service, which provides regular volunteer visits to older people at home ...

Sky News and gay marriage  - Saturday was the first day in which same sex couples could get married in England and Wales and on that day I travelled over to the Sky News studios ...

Channel 4's Our Gay Wedding: The Musical - First look video  -  Our Gay Wedding: The Musical - a 60-minute television special - will see West End star Nathan Taylor and composer Benjamin Till marry in one of the UK"s first same-sex marriages.

Preacher wins cash after being arrested for ' gays will burn' rant  - A UK Christian street preacher has won thousands of pounds in cash after being 'wrongly' arrested for a gay hate speech. John Craven, 57, was ...

Introduction of gay marriage 'concerning for many Christians'  - The introduction of same-sex marriages in England and Wales is “concerning” for many Christians, a group which represents evangelicals has said.

UN expert heads to UK to investigate violence against women  -  Domestic and sexual violence , sexual bullying and harassment, forced and early marriages, and female genital mutilation – all these ...

How Your Clothes Can Restore Sight in Ethiopia  - Around the world 100million older people have to live on less than 60p a day. ... people donating their clothes and other household items to Age UK's  ...

£600 million UK aid money financing 'corporate scramble for Africa'  - £600 million in UK aid money is going to a scheme to help big businesses increase their profits in Africa, a report by the World Development ...

Hunger isolates people, says Mansfield vicar  - Mansfield vicar Keith Hebden is now more than half way through a 40-day fast as part of a bid to highlight food poverty around the UK . Rev Hebden, of ..

Offensive weapons crime falls 60%  - Crimes involving weapons have dropped by 60% and violent crime is down by a third in a pilot area for a Government knife crime campaign, ...

Why domestic abuse is NOT a crime  - the Sara Charlton Charitable Foundation, which is dedicated to combating domestic abuse in the UK , and domestic violence charity Women's Aid ..

Jolie to seek end to sexual violence as war weapon at London summit  - Angelina Jolie has said she hopes a global summit on sexual violence she will co-host in London with the UK government will bring lasting change to ...

The mental cost of prejudice: how your skin-colour and who you sleep with affects your mind  - We looked at the rates of common mental health disorders – generally ... Trans people have rates of mental health problems up to six times the UK  ...

UK tackles 'culture of silence' around issues of mental health  - A national campaign will be launched this week in the UK to end the "culture of silence" surrounding mental health problems in the ...

East Lancs hospital bosses in call for more mental health beds for youngsters  - NHS England , which commissions mental health beds for young people, said a national review was being carried out. It said it has worked to ensure ..

Dating Site In Firefox Boycott Over Gay Rights  - Dating site OkCupid has asked its users to boycott the Firefox web browser over its CEO's 2008 opposition to same-sex marriage. Users accessing the ...

Do gay people still need gay bars?  - With the advent of gay marriage in Britain, and many countries moving ... In 16th Century England there was a subculture loosely relating to the theatre ...

It is a wonderful moment in our history'  - ALAN BUTLER and his partner Mark Ayers help run Pride in Plymouth, an LGBT organisation, which brings people to celebrate the diversity that exists ...

Uganda president attends 'thanksgiving service' for anti- gay law  - Uganda President Yoweri Museveni in February signed into law a bill that imposes harsh sentences on LGBT Ugandans. (Photo by the U.K.  ...

25000 people do not know they are HIV positive  - 100,000 people in the UK live with the virus. Speaking from a ... "We would not recommend people go on the internet to access a HIV home testing kit.

A VITAL centre supporting homeless young people in Bromsgrove has been given a significant ...  - A VITAL centre supporting homeless young people in Bromsgrove has ... The centre is owned by the ACT Foundation, a leading UK grant-making ...

City homeless project hailed as "great success" after 200 use service  - Another guest, who has been in the UK for a year but left his accommodation when he lost his job, has moved into a rented home. He said: “Thanks to ...

Evans tells of sex case 'hell'  - The UK city that is being overrun by 'unbelievably big and heavy' rats. ... of details of his personal life, including having homosexual sex with a student.

Obama '100% Invested In The Homosexual Agenda,' Scott Lively Claims  - I think Obama may as well be a homosexual himself,” Lively told the UK network's Inigo Gilmore. “He is certainly a radical homosexualist – meaning a ...

Climate Change: Our Way Of Life 'In Jeopardy'  - The impact of climate change is likely to be "irreversible" and could lead to wars as extreme weather and poverty cause social unrest, a major UN ...

Mind matters: the mental health taboo at universities  -  Mental health problems are common among students: one in five consider ... the stigma around mental health are spreading across UK universities.

Same-sex marriage slammed by gay critics  - Art critic Brian Sewell and newspaper columnist Andrew Pierce made their comments as the first same-sex weddings in the UK took place on Saturday ...

Fake British MI5 agent murdered Italian pensioner met through gay chat room  - Marshall, a former employee of Newham Council, tortured the pensioner to get his bank PIN code, after meeting him online in gay chatroom Badoo.

Pride plans fairy tale fun - but at a cost  - Now in its fifth year, the celebration of all things lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) will take place on August 2. Organisers said access to ...

Same sex couples in Plymouth welcome new marriage legislation  - Same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales at midnight on ... “Equal marriage is one of the last legal obstacles the LGBT community ...

Gays and lesbians more popular than evangelicals among voters, according to US poll  -  UK's first gay weddings. Based on the responses of 1,000 likely 2016 voters, the poll found that more than half (55 per cent) of people ...

UK haven for gay Poles, claims academic  -  Gay Poles in the UK say they are not planning to return to their country because they felt too humiliated and irritated by the hate speech and anti- gay  ...