PA: British Isles & Ireland
Friday, 24 February 2017 09:09
Northern Ireland, Scotland and Brexit
On 2 March, Northern Ireland will vote for a new Assembly amid much uncertainty. DUP leader Arlene Foster faces criticism for an energy scheme that wasted hundreds of millions of public money. Sinn Fein faces a…
Friday, 24 February 2017 09:07
Archbishops’ letter after Synod vote
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to members of the General Synod setting out the next steps, following this week’s vote not to ‘take note’ of a report on Marriage and Same Sex Relationships.…
Friday, 24 February 2017 09:06
Inequality in the UK
The Equality Trust reports, ‘The richest 10% of households spend more on eating out (£58.40) than the poorest 10% of households spend on housing, fuel and power combined (£44.50). They spend £34.50 per week on furniture…
Friday, 24 February 2017 09:00
Refugees: who should come in?
In the wake of the closure of the Dubs scheme (see article 1 in the Europe section) allowing unaccompanied minors from Calais into the UK, the Government has come under fire. Lord Dubs (himself a refugee…
Friday, 24 February 2017 08:58
Black-majority churches growing fast
Andrew Rogers, a lecturer in practical theology at the University of Roehampton, speaking on Pentecostalism, said that the number of black majority churches in Southwark is so high that, at 240, they are nearly twice as…
Friday, 24 February 2017 08:56
Nuclear bunker raid finds £1m cannabis farm
Wiltshire police have said a large-scale cannabis factory has been found in an underground former nuclear bunker with an estimated street value of £1m. The plants were seized in a midnight raid on Regional Government Headquarters…