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Life 'meaningless' without stab boy The family of a teenager stabbed to death on the UK's busiest shopping street on Boxing Day has said "life seems meaningless" without him. Seydou Diarrassouba, 18, was killed after a fight broke out at a Foot Locker sports shoe store on London's Oxford ...

Scottish independence will be a recipe for unfairness We both have elderly relatives reaching the stage when they need help at home. The difference in what's available in Scotland and England isn't quite of the magnitude that led Disraeli to warn of the dangers of two nations, separated by wealth; ...

Elderly care: Britain must put its own vulnerable first Meanwhile we learn that millions of pounds in aid have been funnelled to Brazil – a wealthy nation which has this week overtaken the UK in the global economic league table. Worse, our politically-correct leaders still intend to lavish more than ...

London's Shard: a 'tower of power and riches' looking down on poverty As the global economic crisis forced builders to down tools on sites across the UK , around £1.5bn – mostly from the Gulf – bankrolled the Shard. Two of the apartments span two entire floors each and are expected to become London homes for members of ...

January London Tube strikes called off Planned New Year strikes on London's Tube network have been suspended while talks on a bank holiday pay row take place. The dispute between train drivers' union Aslef and London Underground led to a 24-hour strike on Boxing ...

The 1.3m extra London 2012 Olympic tickets they forgot to tell us about Organisers insisted that marketplace websites were keeping a close eye on touts and that London 2012 tickets were automatically removed before they could be sold. The UK ticketing system has received much criticism, with even cycling gold medallist ...

Future looks good for Corsham pupil's charity film Corsham is set to be immortalised in film as part of an A-Level student's project raising awareness for Parkin-son's UK . Luke Palmer, 17, who is regularly involved with the annual Corsham Sci-Fi charity event, will soon be filming scenes in the town, ...

Despite the gloom, champagne sales still booming as they rise by 17 per cent Sparkling wine sales have remained relatively consistent across the same three year period with just a small rise experienced, say Berry Bros and Rudd, the 300 year old wine merchants and vintners to the Queen. The company says the latest statistics ...

Thatcher's corrosive legacy: The UK's abandoned inner cities Shettleston is one of the most deprived wards in the UK . Life expectancy for a man is 14 years below the national average and the same as Baghdad or the Palestinian territories. In Southall, London, I talked to a 14-year- old , former child soldier from ...

Level of pension saving by private sector workers falls to its lowest level ... They prove that the UK simply isn't saving enough and that, sadly, millions of people are on course for an old age ruled by poverty. 'Squeezed household budgets and the economic slowdown are partly to blame for the fall-off in pensions take-up, ...

Cost of council services for elderly rise Data from councils in England has revealed a sharp rise in the cost of council services for elderly and disabled people. Information collected from 93 out of 153 councils showed fees for meals on wheels has gone up by 13% over the last two years, ...

GW plans cannabis offshoots Sativex, launched in the UK in June, is the only cannabis -based medicine to receive approval from medical authorities for use as a prescription drug, and has been the driving force behind Aim-traded GW. However, Justin Gover, managing director, ...

Social care fees: Your stories The cost of council services for elderly and disabled people has risen sharply, Labour has warned. Data from 93 out of 153 councils in England showed fees for meals on wheels has gone up by 13% over the last two years. The government said local ...

Russian LGBT activists excluded from pro-democracy campaigns Alekseev said, “I find it completely outrageous that the incidents happened during the opposition rallies and then not a single high-ranking organiser of these events denounced these attacks and harassment of LGBT people”. British -based human rights ...

UK poverty entrenched and deepening The Joseph Rowntree Foundation survey, “Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011”, reveals the terrible scale of entrenched poverty in the UK .