European ferry operator DFDS has announced it will donate £5 for every booking made on its Dover to Calais or Dunkirk services to charity Breast Cancer Now. The fares, booked through a dedicated ‘Think Pink’ page on the website, start from £35 each way for a car and up to nine people and gives customers the...
Women will have to wait more than two centuries to achieve equality in the workplace, according to new research. According to a damning study it will take 217 years for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end. This is significantly longer than the 170 years...
The Bank of England has raised interest rates today for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate has been lifted from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent, the first increase since July 2007. Almost four million households face higher mortgage interest payments after the...
Shocking new research by a leading UK thinktank has revealed that the number of children living in poverty is set to soar to 5.2 million in the next five years. With government welfare cuts hitting the households with young families the hardest, more children than ever will be plunged into...
Right wing activist Laura Loomer has been banned from Uber after she tweeted about her inability to find a car driven by a “non Muslim.” The former Project Veritas operative tweeted that she was late to a New York Police Department press conference on the recent terror attack because she was unable to find...
Thousands of new hire bikes dubbed Sadiq Cycles are being rolled out across London – offering an upgrade on the original Boris Bikes. The Mayor of London announced the arrival, with the new bikes offering riders improved handling, a new gel saddle, tyres with puncture prevention and BLUETOOTH. The bikes...
Government promises to help local authorities with essential fire safety works lie in shatters after it refused to pay for sprinklers in tower blocks. Communities secretary Sajid Javid has refused to commit funding to retro-fit sprinklers to tower blocks, saying that the government will instead await the outcome of a review...
The level of inequality in Britain far outstretches that of our European neighbours or other G7 countries, a new graph has revealed. According to OECD figures published in The Economist the richest people in the UK are leaps and bounds ahead of the poorest groups in terms of GDP per person....
Harvey Weinstein is to be this year's effigy burned by the Edenbridge Bonfire Society. The society has become renowned in recent years for burning effigies of controversial figures such as Donald Trump, Sepp Blatter and Katie Hopkins. The fire will be lit on Saturday night to raise money for local charities, with...