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ONS figures show that although there was improvement from 2012/13, vulnerable people are still more likely to die in the winter.
We are still paying £11.3 billion a year to be part of a club which cuts the disposable income of the neediest in our society.
An industry that was once owned by the government is now almost exclusively owned overseas by a few private investors.
The Green Party’s leader put forward her views on education, pay and the NHS in a live debate with young voters.
Until there is concerted action to revive the failing economies of southern and eastern Europe, there is little hope that the government’s net migration target will be met.
The council continually favours rich new tenants over long-standing independent businesses.
The government has pressed ahead with privatisation of the East Coast Mainline precisely because of its success.
Like a vote for Ukip, to fly the St George’s Cross is as much to declare one’s antipathy to the liberal, metropolitan well-to-do middle-classes as it is a protest against the EU.
Some causes transcend political barriers. The plight of those trapped between the murderers of the Islamic State and the slaughter at the hands of Assad’s forces is one of those issues.
New report says the ailing scheme is dependent on assumptions.
