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– ‘Winter Refills Allowance’ allows customers to pick up a refillable hot drink and a cake for just £4, available now in all Morrisons Cafés – Morrisons announces a ‘Winter Refills Allowance’ across all its Cafés nationwide to help customers stay warm throughout the colder months. Unlimited free refills will be available across all self-serve […]
Roles on offer include Store Assistants, managerial positions, and cleaners. Starting pay for Store Assistants at Aldi remains the best in the industry at £12.40 per hour nationally, and £13.65 per hour inside the M25. Aldi is also the only UK supermarket to offer paid breaks, which is worth more than £900 a year for […]
The government has unveiled its Employment Rights Bill, marking the most significant overhaul of workers’ rights in a generation. The new legislation aims to end exploitative zero-hours contracts, ban controversial fire and rehire practices, and ensure employees have essential workplace protections from their first day on the job. Under the new Bill, employees will gain […]
The SSSNB will be made up of representatives of employers, unions and an independent chairperson and will be tasked with making sure support staff are paid fairly and have access to training and career progression opportunities. To ensure all school staff have access to fair pay and conditions the SSSNB will apply to support staff […]
Sukhwinder Singh Kang, 33, of Camberley, Surrey, who had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of providing unregulated immigration advice and services, and four counts of fraud, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on 27 September 2024. He received a concurrent sentence of 16 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, along with 150 hours of […]
An international drug trafficker who was once one of the UK’s most wanted men has today been jailed for 20 years. James Stevenson custody imageJames ‘Jamie’ Stevenson, 59, masterminded a plot to smuggle nearly a tonne of cocaine from Ecuador to Glasgow Fruit Market Ltd in the city’s Kennedy Street. The huge consignment had a […]
Three men have pleaded guilty to running a website enabling criminals to circumvent banking anti-fraud checks. A National Crime Agency investigation showed that www.OTP.Agency was run by Callum Picari, 22, from Hornchurch, Essex; Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan, 21, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; and Aza Siddeeque, 19, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Criminals were charged a monthly subscription fee which […]
Government pushes ahead with reform agenda by scrapping single headline Ofsted judgements for schools with immediate effect Single headline grades for schools will be scrapped with immediate effect to boost school standards and increase transparency for parents, the government has announced today. Reductive single headline grades fail to provide a fair and accurate assessment of […]
Taxi and delivery driver claimed £100,000 of Bounce Back Loans and failed to spend the money on his businesses A taxi driver from Ilford in East London must abide by 11 years of tough bankruptcy restrictions after falsely claiming two Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000 during the covid pandemic. Hafiz Saeed Ahmad, 47, from Meath […]
The UK immigration system is going digital, meaning physical documents will be replaced with an online immigration status Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs), vignette stickers in passports or ‘wet ink stamps’ are among some of the physical documents that will no longer needed. If you are granted a visa to stay in the UK for longer […]
