Moves to curb irresponsible drinking have led to a call for a 'revisit of existing solutions', particularly in preventing sales of alcohol to young people.
With tax and public spending high on the news agenda, teachers are being urged to take advantage of a free, online teaching resource that helps pupils learn just what tax is all about.
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today announced that from 1 April 2010 new social criteria will be added to the UK Government’s timber procurement policy, to add to the existing requirement that all Government...
Dairy farmers are being asked for their views on how best to distribute England’s £16m (€18m) share of the EU Dairy Fund in a consultation launched by Defra today.
The Social Security Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, has appointed Ms Nicola Smith, as a member of the SSAC for a term of three years...
More tenants across the country will have a greater say over where they want to live and what housing options are available to them after Housing Minister John Healey today announced over half a million pounds...
Kent company Carmelion Ltd ended 2009 on a high after securing a major deal with Australian supermarket chain Coles for its Traxxâ„¢ framing system for advertising on vehicles. After seeing the benefit from their...
Thomas Crapper Day (27 January 2010) marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Crapper’s1 death, and the Consumer Council for Water is calling for consumers to take a minute to reflect on where we might be without...
Top British designers and architects are working with the NHS to improve the experience of patients in hospital.
The UK’s finest in law enforcement financial investigation, came together today to celebrate the winners of the Keith Hughes Award for Excellence in Financial Investigation, at the Brit Oval in London.
A Southend-based company has been prosecuted after an aircraft painter was severely injured in a fall – leaving him unable to work for more than two years.
Future rail franchises will be let for a minimum of ten years - with even longer contracts of up to 22 years possible in return for additional investment. Train operators are also to get more scope for innovation...
A1M Junction 61, County Durham Slight delays are expected on the A1M between junctions 61 and 60 for bridge repair works. There will be a 24 hour lane closure southbound. The works will take place until March...
"I am pleased that the Families and Relationships Green Paper reconfirms our commitment to support service families. The families of our service personnel have always held things together at home, and their task...
07/10 Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today announced that from 1 April 2010 new social criteria will be added to the UK Government’s timber procurement policy, to add to the existing requirement that all Government...
The 31 January Self Assessment tax return deadline isn’t far away, so if you haven’t yet sent your return to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), you need to act quickly to avoid a £100 penalty.
A new test which focuses on what people can do rather than what they can't is keeping more people seeking work, new figures show today. Thousands of people are now moving towards work rather than being left to...
Professor Bernard Silverman has been appointed as the new Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office it was announced today. He will replace Professor Paul Wiles who is leaving Government service after holding...
The government today welcomed the drop in the December unemployment and youth unemployment figures but warned that the jobless total was still expected to rise again before the summer.
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With tax and public spending high on the news agenda, teachers are being urged to take advantage of a free, online teaching resource that helps pupils learn just what tax is all about.
Kent company Carmelion Ltd ended 2009 on a high after securing a major deal with Australian supermarket chain Coles for its Traxxâ„¢ framing system for advertising on vehicles. After seeing the benefit from their...
Thomas Crapper Day (27 January 2010) marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Crapper’s1 death, and the Consumer Council for Water is calling for consumers to take a minute to reflect on where we might be without...
As the decision of the house of lords saying tht the OFT cannot assess...
The V & A are intending to place in long-term storage its collection of...
MP's do not deserve medals for just visiting Afghan or Iraq. If they want a...
to stop all parking charges in hospitals
Yet again, today, we hear of another failing Children's Services department...
Far too often the money spent on overseas aid finds its way into the pockets...
we want any form of dog fighting stopped.owners of animals suffering this...
I believe that the practise of political lobbying for money is corrupt and...
Make convicted criminals work repairing roads and cleaning buildings of...
security forces in other country's have the rights to carry batons and...
If the plans for Heathrow expantion go ahead, then the enviromental impact...
We feel that cyclists the law is not as clear as it could be on the matter...
Siemens's CEO of the Energy sector (Wolfgang Dehen) wants to shut down...
To the Rt Hon Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...
Absent parents who did not pay for their children should be penalised. The...
I beg the Prime Minister to set up without delay an evacuation programme to...
If the Department can show that it operated a reasonable system of...
Too many times, men accused of rape and then acquitted, have their details...
North Somerset Council has agreed to buy an office block in Clevedon for 15...
The scanners in question seem to be nothing other than hi-tech x-ray...
The current tax system for the self employed who are not trading as a...
Please immediately stop fighting to help ease the suffering caused by the...
Eating disorders are extremely complex illnesses which do not elude any...
Following the economic crisis, the Chancellor has decided to massively cut...
Body scanners are too intrusive, showing outlines of peoples genitals. It is...
Football should belong first and foremost to the fans. We have done and...
The protest by the human rights lobby to make illegal the implimentation at...
Energy firms are not passing on reductions in wholesale energy prices and...
In the interests of public health, the lethal drug alcohol must be...
The legal and moral position is unclear, and one could spent hours arguing...
If the Goverment legalises CS gas to the public I believe fewer people will...
By signing up to this you belive that we should not be giving money away to...
we would like our soldiers to be allowed to be paid their salaries tax free...
I petition the Government to create a Charity Tax on the bankers Bonuses. I...
Britain has become divided. There is also evidence that some who live in...
According to a recent press article it is understood that the Prime Minester...
The government gives people who do not earn enough tax credits, housing...
From January 2010 the availability of Haemo-dialysis treatment at...
A large part of the hand delivered junk mail I receive in the post comes...
Increase the amount of financial aid to haiti.
The idea is for a new and improved CRB (Criminal Records Bureau). Our idea...
make everyone automatically on the organ donor register and be given the...
After a divorce, men are usually left with very little assets. If these men...
Great Britain (GB) applies only to the largest of the British Isles...
All duck, swan and geese ponds in parks, and preferably in nature reserves...
and giving them benefits if they had to work like the rest of the true...
Why should we as a British Nation have to put up with the immigrants coming...
Burgess Farm still contributes to the UK's rapidly diminishing food chain....
The organisation in charge of England's coastal navigation aids is...
The Trustees of Broom Village Hall have issued The Fawns Pre-School with 1...
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has published a decision on statutory proposals by Croydon Council to close Broadmead Infant and Nursery and Broadmead Junior Schools and establish a new 3 to 11 community...
Top British designers and architects are working with the NHS to improve the experience of patients in hospital.
Future rail franchises will be let for a minimum of ten years - with even longer contracts of up to 22 years possible in return for additional investment. Train operators are also to get more scope for innovation...