System treats maternity allowance as unpaid income, skewing the amount of universal credit paid out Pregnant women on the lowest incomes are being denied vital financial support during the Covid-19 crisis, according to unions and women’s support groups, who are calling for urgent reforms to universal credit. An anomaly in the way universal credit differentiates […]
A total of 7000 have received a slice of the Government grants, Businesses in the city are subject to eligibility checks before the cash is handed over by Birmingham Council. Council officers have been pushing out all the stops, including working on weekends, to process submissions from Birmingham business to receive grants to support their […]
Police’ve taken action after a pub was caught flouting the shutdown and trading in Wolverhampton. We acted on intelligence and found evidence of The Pendulum in Pendeford open and serving alcohol. Police issued a Coronavirus Restrictions Prohibition Notice on the designated premises supervisor for the breach. A meeting of the city council’s licensing committee today […]
A potential £1bn bill now faces the sector, but the real problem will be maintaining quality for students in a radically altered world this September Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage UK universities need to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to deliver degrees online, with warnings that many are unprepared to […]
Police let hundreds gather at ceremony for convicted criminal Clive Pinnock in ‘interests of public safety’ A man has been arrested after a gun was fired as hundreds of mourners gathered for the Manchester funeral of a criminal known as “Mr Ibiza”, despite social distancing rules. Armed police scrambled to Gorton Cemetery in Manchester on […]
McDonald’s UK will be contributing to the charity’s Emergency Essentials Grant This Thursday, BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief, will be coming together for the very first time for a special night of television The Big Night In, to celebrate and reward those doing great things in the community. As part of this, McDonald’s […]