In late February, Lord Chancellor Elizabeth Truss announced a significant adjustment to the personal injury claims discount rate, now down to negative 0.75% from 2.5%. The rate has remained unchanged since 2001 despite noticeable changes in the broad market, creating the need to review and update it to be more ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor On Monday night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to reject a plan for Britain to accept 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian child refugees have ended up in mainland Europe without a parent or guardian. The amendment had been proposed by Labour’s Lord Dubs, who himself arrived ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The House of Lords was not able to halt a £30-a-week cut to disability benefits forced through by the Government. Charities warned the cut to (ESA) Employment & Support Allowance would make it more difficult for disabled people to find work and many already struggle to ...
The International Space Station is an architectural feat and a cross-country collaboration like no other. Suspended approximately 400 kilometres above the Earth’s surface the habitable artificial satellite weighs almost 400 tonnes and required more than 40 missions to assemble. Space administrations from across the World joined to form the world's ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent In Rathfinny on the south coast of England, ex-fund manager Mark Driver is in the process of planting what will be, when completed in 2020, one of the biggest single-site vineyards in Europe. The location offers a lot of promise. According to the local weather ...