Fylde MP Mark Menzies allegedly used cash raised by donors to pay private medical bills and sought money from an aide after being detained by ‘bad people’.
Low-income households are forking out more than half of their income on rent, analysis shows. Property data firm CoreLogic and ANZ bank found rents at the lower end of the market were rising faster than more premium offerings, with the 25th percentile rent lifting $53 a week in the past 12 months. The Housing Affordability […]
Murrell is the former SNP chief executive.
Nick Boles has hit out at his former party over its handling of the Angela Rayner smear campaign in a damning letter to the Editor.
One Sudanese refugee was evicted from Home Office hotel with only a week’s notice and forced to sleep rough
James Heappey, Mark Francois and Tobias Ellwood have called for spending rise. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott confirmed any hike will have to wait. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged to boost defence budget when it is affordable
Ontario’s Minister of Health is asking her federal counterpart to help close a loophole she says has led to a “disturbing” rise in clinics charging for access to primary care. Sylvia Jones wrote to Mark Holland in a letter sent Monday, asking him to block non-physicians from charging for publicly-funded health services. The federal Canada Health Act (CHA) lays out which health services are funded at the provincial level. But Jones notes the act doesn’t make clear what is or isn’t allowed...
MONROVIA — As calls mount against female genital mutilation, a renowned Liberian health practitioner, Obediah G. Weahweah, has joined the bandwagon in condemning the unwholesome and willful practice in Liberia. By Selma Lomax, [email protected] Weahweah said the act melted against teenage girls in rural Liberia by traditional people is a gross violation of their human rights. []
A protest of around 200 residents erupted in Seattle this month after a "serial squatter" refused to leave his $2 million mansion in the upmarket neighbourhood of Bellevue.Jaskaran Singh, who owns the five-bedroom property, has launched a legal case against the squatter, claiming that the unlawful tenant owes him a staggering $80,000.A court hearing was scheduled for April 5.Sang Kim was dubbed a "serial squatter" after lawyers found that he had refused to pay other landlords in the past.The...
Royal Bank of Canada, the country's largest bank, has fired its chief financial officer after finding that she was in a secret personal relationship with another employee who received promotions and pay rises as a result.
Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been charged in connection with embezzlement of SNP funds. The 59-year-old was charged at 6.35pm after being arrested on Thursday morning and questioned by detectives for more than nine hours as part of their investigation into SNP finances. It is understood Mr Murrell has resigned his SNP membership. A Police Scotland statement said: “A 59-year-old man has today, Thursday, April 18 been charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the...
The 59-year-old, the party's former chief executive, was taken into custody this morning in connection with the probe into how more than £600,000 of donations was used.