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Women in notorious Yarls Wood Detention Centre are on their third day of hunger strike
Reports are emerging of women on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre for women and families. According to reports from women held inside the detention centre over 120 of the women held there have refused meals since Wednesday breakfast. Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott visited the centre this morning to meet the women inside and to "hear first-hand their experiences and their concerns" as she has been campaigning to end the much maligned system of holding people indefinitely on...
University lecturers strike as pension reforms could push ‘large numbers of people into poverty’
Academics across the country are on strike due to planned pension reforms, which they claim will leave them in financial strife later in life. Students joined their lecturers holding mass walkouts across 57 universities up and down the country. Students and lectures man picket lines and hold a rally on the steps of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) at UCL. Thirteen more days of strike action are expected to take place until Friday 16 March. The University College Union...
Strangers help cancer patient after bank threatens to repossess her home
Former nurse Mandy Orton, 55, received a letter from solicitors demanding she pay £6,000 in arrears or have her home in Northampton repossessed
Kylie Jenner wipes £1 billion off Snapchat’s stock market value with one tweet
Kylie Jenner inadvertently wiped a billion pounds off Snapchat's stock market value yesterday after she tweeted that she doesn't use the app anymore. The reality TV star is followed by 24.5 million people on Twitter, and added to the unease around Snapchat's re-design when she tweeted: "sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad." A petition on Change.org has already been signed by 1.2 million people calling for Snap Inc. to...
Mobile app revolutionises the lives of vulnerable people in Kenya
By Jack Granard An app is revolutionising the lives of vulnerable people in Kenya by helping them manage the burden of unexpected medical costs. Single mums and elderly people are signing up to the mobile health wallet service M-TIBA, which allows individuals to send, save and spend funds for their medical treatments. Prior to its development, the severe lack of access to financial planning tools and saving services had been problematic for residents who would often pay in cash or...
Wheeler dealer sentenced for selling fake AIRBAGS
They could be deadly
Two-year-old killed in hit-and-run
The siblings were mown down on MacDonald Road, in Stoke, Coventry, at 2pm
Royal Ballet photographer sent ex sex toy and picture of her dog drowning in bid to win her back
He was given lifelong ban not to contact her again
Anti-Brexit bus launched … and gets stuck on first day
A crowd-funded anti-Brexit bus that quoting government figures for the cost of leaving the EU launched today, but got stuck on London's narrow streets. The "Is It Worth It?" campaign bus is making 33 stops on an eight-day tour of the UK. The bus is in Brexit Bus red, but instead of the much back-tracked on claim that Brexit will give Britain an extra £350 million a week to spend on the NHS, this bus has the slogan: "Brexit to cost...