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Schools are using apprentices as “Cheap Labour” as education cuts bite
Shocking new analysis shows 75% of TA apprentices are paid just £3.50 an hour GMB, the union for teaching assistants, has warned that apprentices are being used as ‘cheap labour’ and are vulnerable to exploitation as education cuts bite. Analysis of 190 teaching assistant apprenticeship vacancies reveals that 75 per cent of roles are advertised on the legal minimum of £3.50 an hour. The average wage offered across all vacancies was just £3.81. Teaching assistants are being paid 43 per...
Humans’ earliest relatives jumped from tree to tree rather than climbed
A 52 million year old ankle fossil dug up in France shows the first primates were high flying acrobats... throwing human evolution on its head. The shape and size of the tiny bone suggests our earliest ancestors flexed and sharply extended their ankles - to launch into the air. They spent most of their time in the branches rather than on the ground, but just how nimble they were as they moved around in the treetops has been hotly disputed....
Revealed: full list of attendees at UK’s biggest arms fair inc despots, dictatorships and human rights abusers
Following a parliamentary question by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, the UK government has published its official guest list for Defence & Security Equipment International 2017 (DSEI), one of the biggest arms fairs in the world. (c) CAAT The controversial defence industry get together kicked off today in the Excel Centre in London’s docklands with news that 100 protestors have been arrested around the site so far. Scotland Yard said 102 people had been arrested so far mainly for allegedly...
Hospital visitor slams sandwich company for “ripping off the NHS” with ‘egg salad sandwich’ with hardly any EGG
A disgruntled hospital visitor has slammed a sandwich company for "ripping off the NHS" with an 'egg salad sandwich' - with hardly any EGG in it. Carl Simpson, 48, was visiting his wife Maria in hospital when she ordered the sandwich through the hospital's catering team. When poorly Maria opened up the sandwich she was gutted to find mainly bread with six pieces of scrunched-up egg and a piece of lettuce and half a tomato. A disgruntled hospital visitor has...
Squaddies appear charged with being members of banned group National Action
Two British soldiers have appeared in court accused of being part of an outlawed neo-Nazi group, with one alleged to have had the manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik on his computer. Soldiers Mikko Vevhilainen, 32, a lance corporal, and Mark Barrett, 24, a private, are accused of being part of the far right group National Action, which was banned in December 2016. They appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court this morning alongside civilian Alexander Deakin, 22, who is also...
The price of beer is about to shoot up
The price of a pint of beer is about to shoot up, according to the world's biggest beer company. Jason Warner, who is AB InBev's president for northern Europe, has warned that rising inflation means that pints in Britain are about to become more expensive. Headline consumer price inflation jumped from 2.6 per cent to 2.9 per cent last month, while the core rate rose from 2.4 per cent to 2.7 per cent. The Bank is currently predicting that CPI will...
The Differences between trade reporting & transaction reporting under MiFID
With MiFID II soon to be put into practice, it’s more important than ever for Financial Institutions to understand what the MiFID is, and what is required of them to follow their regulations. One of the biggest areas for confusion is trade and transaction reporting. Both fairly similar, the confusion is understandable but it is simply to understand the difference. Making a FinTech investment can aid you in gaining the correct technology to make this easier, but we’ve looked deeper...
UPDATE: Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Bill could yet be defeated as 12 Tories join amendments against “monstrosity”
UPDATE: In a long and feisty debate on the Second Reading of the EU Withdrawal Bill, the opposition insisted that a Labour amendment was necessary to stop Brexit turning into a dangerous undemocratic power grab in which Theresa May and her ministers could reinterpret decades of human rights and EU legislation as they see fit. And without the debate and votes of parliamentary scrutiny that we are accustomed to in this country. The Labour amendment stated that “this House respects...
Universal basic income plan enjoys huge level of support, poll finds
Almost half of adults (49%) aged between 18-75 said they would consider some form of Universal basic income. The poll had been commissioned by IPR for Ipsos-MORI and the support is for surprisingly high for an income that meets every citizen’s basic needs, regardless of social demographic and existing wealth. Every person in the UK would benefit from a state payment. However, when individuals were asked to consider UBI funded through increased taxation, support dropped to 30%, with 40% opposed....