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Day: February 3, 2018

How To Help Your Children Adjust To A Blended Family
3Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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How To Help Your Children Adjust To A Blended Family

    The breakdown of a relationship is undoubtedly going to be hard on children caught in the crossfire, but sometimes the hardest change comes later when parents move on and find new partners. These new partners may already have children of their own they want to bring into the household, in fact statistics show one in nine families in Britain is now ‘blended’ or incorporating children who have different genetic parents. Lizi Jackson-Barrett, 40, split from the father of her eight-year-old twins in 2012 and in the six years since has remarried and acquired a stepbrother and stepsister for her kids. She told HuffPost UK that her twins found getting used to a new family dynamic tough. “At first they found it upsetting, but as time has gone on it’s actually helped them l...
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The most affordable UK cities for home buyers
3Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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The most affordable UK cities for home buyers

    Affordability in UK cities is at its worst level since 2007 but buyers who head to Scotland, the North of England and Northern Ireland should ease their purse strings a little. While the average price of a city home has risen 36 per cent in the past five years to £233,000, average annual earnings rose just nine per cent to £33,420 in the same period, according to a report from Lloyds bank. However, although Greater London recorded the highest average property price at £480,800, with Brighton and Hove it was joint third least affordable UK city thanks to marginally higher wages in the capital. The least affordable city was Oxford, where the average house price of £430,000 was found to be 11.5 times average earnings. Since the 2014 mortgage market review, which impo...
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Fix the NHS: Protesters rally in London to call for government action
3Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Fix the NHS: Protesters rally in London to call for government action

    Health workers, activists and unions are marching in central London on Saturday to protest against government inaction over the NHS winter crisis. Hospitals have been overwhelmed in recent weeks by a surge in admissions that has led to delays of up to 12 hours on emergency wards, patients left on trollies for hours and thousands of patients forced to wait in ambulances before receiving urgent care. Two pressure groups, the People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns Together, have organised the rally to call on the government to plug funding and resource gaps in the health service. The actorRalf Little joined hundreds of nurses, doctors and campaigners, and called on the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to attend the demonstration as well. The Royle Family actor, who was...
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MPs will not get chance to vote…
3Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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MPs will not get chance to vote…

    The UK government has told a Scottish court it will never offer MPs the chance to vote against leaving the EU, even if the House of Commons rejects the final Brexit deal. David Johnston QC, a lawyer for the government, said any legal questions on whether article 50 could be unilaterally withdrawn by the UK were hypothetical and irrelevant, since there was no prospect of ministers doing so. He urged Lord Doherty, a civil judge in Edinburgh, to throw out an application by seven Scottish politicians for permission to get a European court of justice (ECJ) ruling on whether the UK could revoke its article 50 letter without agreement from all other EU member states. Johnston told the judge, who will decide by early next week whether the case should go to a full hearing i...
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Tory rebels launch bid to keep UK in customs union with EU
3Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Tory rebels launch bid to keep UK in customs union with EU

      Two leading Conservative MPs have launched a bid to make Theresa May keep the UK in a customs union with the European Union, as the prime minister faces cabinet and party splits over the issue. Anna Soubry, a former business minister, and Ken Clarke, the former chancellor, said they would try to get cross-party support for keeping the UK’s current customs arrangements with the EU, in a clear challenge to May’s authority. They have a strong chance of causing an embarrassing government defeat if Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench supports their amendments to two trade bills when they are debated in the House of Commons before the end of February. It is understood Labour is not ruling out backing the Tory rebels, who already have the support of a number of pro-EU La...
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