Reality has hit - this film is very moving, spare a couple of minutes to watch it
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4 Feb 2019
National News
Essex Chronicle asks: With BREXIT dominating the political agenda, what other issues need to be addressed urgently in 2019?
Please, please, please - can we talk about something other than Brexit? Switch on the TV, turn on the radio, flick through a paper and it's the only news there seems to be. If you were an alien landing in the UK on your first visit to Earth, you might be forgiven for thinking there's nothing else to worry about. But of course, you'd be wrong. Brexit has a habit of burying other important issues, but that doesn't mean they've gone away - we just don't seem to be paying them enough attention. in September 2018, a new study found that 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty. That should have hit the headlines and got the whole country talking. Just think about it - that's roughly a third of all UK children living in hardship and more likely to have poor health than those above the poverty line. Surely, we should be doing something about that? Instead, Brexit is distracting our time, energy and resources away from dealing with lots of issues, yet it won't fix any of them. Brexit won't fix the NHS - w
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4 Feb 2019
EU citizens face 100-mile round trip to register to remain in UK post-Brexit
EU citizens in Gloucester face a 100-mile mile round trip to register for settled status in post-Brexit Britain, according to the Liberal Democrats.
4 Feb 2019
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4 Feb 2019
Tory pay stunt would make local politics a rich person's plaything
There has been suggestion from a Conservative Party candidate that the Liberal Democrat Councillors in Hitchin Highbury ward donate their entire allowances to good causes. While on the face of it this seems to be an honourable thing to do, it would actually set a rather worrying precedent where only the rich could stand for election.
4 Feb 2019
LOCAL COUNCILS STILL FACE A FUNDING GAP OF £3 BILLION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE SETTLEMENT LEAVES A GAP OF £3 BILLION The money councils have to provide local services is running out fast and there is huge uncertainty about how they will pay for them into the next decade and beyond. Far from an end to austerity, the Government continues to under fund public services hitting the poorest in society. Following the publication of the local government finance settlement, Liberal Democrat Local Government Spokesperson Wera Hobhouse MP added: "This settlement does nothing to address the growing inequalities across our country. The highly regressive council tax system means that, as the Conservative Government continue to underfund local government, subsequent council tax rises hit poorer communities the hardest".
4 Feb 2019