Government set to ban Zombie knives from September

The Government will ban  so-called "zombie knives" and machetes in England and Wales from September Legislation will be introduced to parliament on Thursday, the Home...

Government to introduce legislation to quash wrongful Post Office convictions

Hundreds of innocent Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting as a result of flaws in an IT system will...

Modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK is “far more prevalent than previously...

Modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) in the UK is far more prevalent than previously thought, according to the National Crime Agency. A growing body...

Unpaid internships are damaging to social mobility

An overwhelming majority of the UK public support the introduction of a legal ban on unpaid internships lasting four weeks or more. New polling data...

We could make a Motorway stretching to Lapland and back,111 times with all the...

Households across the country are being encouraged by the Minister for Local Government, Marcus Jones, to make it a record-breaking year for recycling over...

Government to draft in new measures to crack down on ‘bots

The new law will see touts using automated software to bulk buy tickets for resale on secondary ticketing sites at inflated prices face an...

Andrew Gwynne joins Dogs Trust in calling for end to puppy smuggling

Tameside MP Andrew Gwynne MP attended an event hosted by DogsTrust at the House of Commons where the charity called on the government to...

123456-How your internet security is in danger by your choice of passwords

Your name, your favorite football team or simply 123456. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has released a list of the 100,000 most common passwords...

‘Democracy denied’ as report reveals how voters are left voiceless across England

England has large areas which are ‘democracy deserts’, according to a new report on this year’s elections. Councils across England saw the wrong party winning,...

Record UK employment driven by households trying to combat unprecedented income squeeze

Britain’s record employment is the result of its post-crisis income squeeze, and means we’re working an extra 65 million hours a week, according to...