
Loans chaos rounds off rotten week for students
The news this morning that students are to face another year of chaos and delays in applying for grants and loans comes at the end of a terrible week for them.

The news this morning that students are to face another year of chaos and delays in applying for grants and loans comes at the end of a terrible week for them.

Round-up of the week’s news from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Lambeth’s work with resident and voluntary led organisations to deliver local services is nothing new, located in a strong tradition built up over many years.

Despite the £38bn spent on decent homes which improved hundreds of thousands of council homes, many of the worst estates continue to be untackled.

More on the Lord Ashcroft scandal and William Hague’s involvement with the £127 million tax avoider, nuclear submarines, Clegg, Darling, the BA strike and more.

The left need to offer a collective, forward-looking, dynamic and all-inclusive vision of England and Englishness that the people of England can sign up to.

In what is no doubt a tightly coordinated effort to gain momentum from the Digital Economy Bill, a report has been written by BASCAP into piracy.

This week’s budget is being held against the backdrop of severe pressures on public finances, with politicians being exhorted to “think the unthinkable”.

As questions continue to mount over the Conservatives’ policies on Sure Start, one of their media proxies has launched a vicious attack on the scheme.

A report by the All Wales Mental Health Promotion Network has estimated that mental health problems cost Wales to be £7.2 billion.