The UK’s rail service will be harshly disrupted across the country today despite an 11th-hour decision to suspend strikes while negotiations between the RMT union and train companies continue. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) were due to stage strikes in the coming few days inContinue reading “‘Extremely Limited’ Rail Services Continue To Cause Travel Chaos For Rail Passengers Today”
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State Pensions
With the cost of living spiralling, people across the country need certainty about their pensions. Most pensioners have a fixed income and millions of over 66s depend on the state pension as their primary source of money to buy life’s necessities. The UK state pension is the worst in the developed world, with nine outContinue reading “State Pensions”
The Concept Of Growing Food Has Become Taboo
Farmers reacted with anger to Boris Johnson’s plans to rewild swathes of the UK’s arable and pasture land claiming swapping fields of cows, sheep and pigs for trees and bogs, which will put British food production at risk. The Government’s £2.4 billion per year plan to replace the European Union’s common agricultural policy, called theContinue reading “The Concept Of Growing Food Has Become Taboo”
Battle Of Thessaloniki
Greek police fired tear gas and water cannons on Saturday to break up a demonstration of thousands of people protesting against mandatory COVID 19 vaccinations. Authorities said demonstrators flung flares at police in Greece’s second-biggest city of Thessaloniki, who blocked them from attempting to reach the area where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due toContinue reading “Battle Of Thessaloniki”