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SAS sniper Danny Nightingale given suspended sentence over possession of gun
Thursday 25 July 2013
Wife of Sgt Nightingale said the couple are disappointed over the sentencing but relieved that he will be returning home
‘Bedroom tax’ stokes rise in benefit claims for housing hardship
Friday 12 July 2013
Councils were faced with a four-fold rise in applications for a housing hardship fund in the month after the so-called “bedroom tax” was introduced, figures show.
Benefit cuts sends number of food bank users soaring
Thursday 11 July 2013
New figures emerge a week after Lord Freud, the Welfare Reform Minister, questioned whether there was a link between the two events
50 Cent's Argos appearance cancelled following arrest
Thursday 04 July 2013
Rapper 50 Cent has cancelled an unlikely in-store appearance at a branch of Argos - after being charged with attacking his ex in the US.
Shipley stabbings: Man held over murder and stabbing
Tuesday 02 July 2013
Police are linking the murder of an 84-year-old woman to the stabbing of a nine-year-old boy and another incident in which an eight-year-old girl was chased into her home.
Emirates Air first class suites: A bit of razzle dazzle for club international fliers
Sunday 23 June 2013
Squint at the advert for the new first-class private suites on Emirates Air, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the last 40 years never happened.
Tim Key: 'In spite of sleeping with each other for many years, our relationship was cold'
Saturday 22 June 2013
I bought a bed this week. I went to a showroom, I spent time questioning the shit out of the staff and trying on various mattresses, and I, heroically, bought a bed.
Children in working families fall below the poverty line
Thursday 13 June 2013
Children living below the poverty line are now twice as likely to come from working families struggling on low incomes and falling wages than those whose parents are unemployed, official figures have revealed.
First-time buyer numbers rise 15%
Thursday 06 June 2013
Report shows that the average price of a home bought by first-time buyers was up 2% in April
'Distressing' leaked pictures show blood in bathroom where Oscar Pistorius shot his lover Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day
Friday 31 May 2013
Defence lawyers have described their appearance in the public domain as “distressing”
Jimmy Savile's Highland cottage for sale
Thursday 30 May 2013
The Highland cottage owned by disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile will be sold at auction today.
How to avoid paying your bedroom tax – get it reclassified as a study
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Councils and housing associations are reclassifying thousands of bedrooms across Britain as box rooms, studies or non-specific rooms so that tenants can avoid the so-called “bedroom tax”.
Tenants face eviction over controversial ‘bedroom tax’
Sunday 26 May 2013
Thousands could lose their homes as councils and housing associations begin a clampdown on those in rent arrears
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- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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