A Department for Work and Pensions letter landing on doormats amid £5 billion cuts will come with a £5,000 fine for claimants. Those who receive the letter and communication from the benefits ...

Birmingham’s bin-strike woes escalated this week when police were called to a mobile waste collection service that became swarmed by locals desperate to get rid of their rubbish. In Moseley, a ...

Strikes by refuse workers in Birmingham have led to scenes of chaos, with bins piling up on streets, reports of rats, and some residents saying their recycling hasn't been collected in a month ...

Thousands of carers are receiving new debt letters as a review into Carer’s Allowance overpayments continues. The number of people with an outstanding Carer’s Allowance debt rose by over 9,000 ...

Set in 1982 Liverpool when three million souls were unemployed and the busiest people on Merseyside were those behind the counter in the dole office. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser ...

Below, read a letter Khalil dictated over the phone from Immigrations and Customs (ICE) detention in Louisiana – his first public statement since his arrest. Letter from a Palestinian Political ...

Arabic. French. Detained Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil dictated a letter from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a U.S-based ...

In a letter dictated over the phone from an ICE jail in Jena, Louisiana, Khalil decried his arrest, anti-Palestinian racism by both the Biden and Trump administrations and the inhumane conditions ...

Ready for a tough question, food lovers in Birmingham? Well, here goes: If you could only eat at one restaurant here for the rest of your life, which would it be? The metro area is filled with ...

If we were getting sold to a luxury brand, then we would have been a misfit. Minimalist’s ethos is the product and the transparency, if HUL does anything with it then Minimalist will lose its ...

Ellis Matthews, 32, has spoken out on the horrors of being imprisoned in a “rat infested” Bangkok jail along with her four-year-old son Cairo. Ellis left the UK four years ago to live her ...

After learning of the scene, Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo said they were “worse than the conditions of a jail cell.” His stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, 56, is now facing counts of ...