Columbus, OH

The MP says he was "shocked" by a BBC report highlighting issues with the flats he rents out.

Labour MP 'profoundly sorry' over state of flats

The Guardian

Exclusive: nursing body says staff are being punished by benefits policy for those on temporary visas

NHS nurses from overseas ‘pushed into poverty’ by UK welfare rules 

Gordon Lyons said while he did not agree with the move, Stormont will follow the rest of the UK.

Winter fuel payments in NI to be means tested

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for a Commons vote on the decision to withdraw the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners, describing it as the government's "first big mistake". Around 10 million pensioners not receiving benefits will lose the payment of up to £300 from mid-September,...

Reeves under growing pressure on winter fuel payments

The Independent

 Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has said his party will attempt to block the Government’s proposed move to end the winter fuel allowance to some pensioners, describing the move as the new administration’s “first big mistake”.Sir Ed said Labour MPs and others across the House will be “genuinely worried” about the move after correspondence with constituents.Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Government is withdrawing winter fuel payments from millions of pensioner households not in receipt of benefits.Ms Reeves defended that decision, which she blamed on a £22 billion black hole in the public finances inherited from the Conservatives, stating:...

Davey: Cutting winter fuel allowance is Government’s ‘first big mistake’

The body of a woman has been found in a street in a town centre. The death, in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, was being treated as unexplained by Staffordshire Police who said they were keeping an open mind about the circumstances leading up to her death. Emergency crews were called to a...

Appeal after woman's body found in street

Three children who were found dead with a man at a house in Surrey were all aged under four, police have said. The man was Polish national Piotr Swiderski. Police have confirmed all four found in the house in Staines, on Saturday, were related. Neighbours said they believed a young...

Three children found dead with man all under four

Lisa Peacock encourages anyone who thinks they have a problem to talk to a loved one and seek help.

'I hid my alcoholism for so many years'

A man discovered the young male dog while walking his own dogs at 05:30 BST along the riverbank.

Dog found in river with mouth bound up with tape

The US Sun

A KILLER who stole a man’s mobility scooter, dragged him along the ground then left him to die in freezing temperatures has been jailed. Kimberley Ann Hawkins, 41, was captured on chilling CCTV stealing the motorised vehicle from 63-year-old Neil Shadwick in a Tesco car park. She then rode off – dragging Neil “for a […]

Killer who stole man’s mobility scooter, dragged him along the ground then left him to die in -4C temperatures is jailed

A council has apologised to an 82-year-old woman who was given a fixed penalty notice for feeding ducks and fish at her local pond. Faye Borg was in Morden Hall Park in south-west London on Thursday morning when she was approached by two Merton Council wardens who issued her with a £150 fixed penalty notice for littering.

Woman who fed ducks followed home by wardens

A MUM has spilled the beans on the costs of her temporary council housing after being evicted from the previous property. Mum-of-four Beth Owen was forced to seek help after her family was evicted from their private rented house. The brood, from the UK, found themselves ''homeless'' for a whopping...

I lived in council homeless accommodation with my family for a year – we paid £200 a month just to get kids to school

As well as the arrests, officers seized phones and cash from properties and businesses across Hull.

Four arrested in human trafficking probe

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Shay Kang was found with fatal injuries at a house in Rowley Regis, West Midlands in March.

Mother pleads guilty to stabbing daughter to death

Intense floods are battering the West African country - so far at least 179 people have died.

Children die in building collapse after Nigeria flooding

The pair are arrested on suspicion of murder after the death in Oldbury on Thursday, police say.

Teens arrested after boy, 13, stabbed to death

Video footage shows the moment a lorry driver crashed in north Wales after being distracted by his mobile phone. The dashcam and CCTV images show Raymond Catterall, 44, looking down at his phone before swerving the vehicle off the A55 at Tal-y-Bont, Gwynedd, and crashing in adjacent bushes. He hits...

Watch as lorry driver distracted by phone crashes

A WHEELCHAIR-using 96-year-old has become the oldest woman to be convicted of dangerous driving after killing a pedestrian in a horror crash. June Mills was driving in her Vauxhall Corsa when she lost control of the car and mounted a pavement. The pensioner then ploughed into and killed Brenda Joyce, 76, as she walked through […]

Wheelchair-using woman, 96, becomes oldest in Britain to be convicted of dangerous driving after killing OAP in crash

A development of 350 homes is now set to be built after the Planning Inspectorate overturned the council’s refusal of outline planning permission. In February, East Herts Council told Countryside Partnerships Ltd and Wattsdown Developments Ltd they could not proceed with the proposed development on the west of Buntingford, next to the A10.

Decision not to build 350 new homes overturned

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Winter fuel payments had to be scrapped, minister insists

The leader of the House of Commons said she could not see a scenario in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped the...

Winter fuel payments had to be scrapped, minister insists

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