Day: November 21, 2016

    The combined impact of welfare cuts will leave struggling working families - the just about managing households Theresa May has vowed to help worse off by more than £2,500 a year by 2020, according to research published days before her government’s first autumn statement. A study of 187,000 households across the UK found that policies including cuts to universal credit and the four-year benefit rate freeze, coupled with rising rents and higher inflation, would see low-income working families typically lose £48.90 a week by the end of the decade. The findings have alarmed councils and charities worried that the growing financial burden on low-income families will raise poverty and homelessness levels. The research will increase the pressure on the chancellor, Philip Hammond...

    The small HMS Sabre speedboat was involved in a 'serious incident' with a research vessel in a 'cat and mouse' incident that began on Friday and eventually ended on Sunday afternoon. According to an eyewitness, the Angeles Alvariño had entered British territorial waters on Friday afternoon to carry out oceanographic work. It is claimed the ship's captain refused to back down when sent a radio warning and HMS Sabre, a smaller Royal Navy Rhib and the research vessel were involved in a game of cat and mouse through Friday night and Saturday. Maritime observer for British Gibraltar Open-source intelligence and Founder of OpWest and Gibraltar Coast Watchers, Michael Sanchez sent a serious of tweets outlining the incident. At about 2pm on Sunday, he tweeted: "Serious confrontati...