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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Today the Mail on Sunday did a hatchet job on the child abuse victim Steven Messham in an attempt to discredit him as a...
Locality is the leading nationwide network of settlements, development trusts, social action centres and community enterprises. We believe that every community is a place...
New research published today by JRF leaves us wondering whether there is enough political will to fix the broken housing market. Last week saw...
I’ve come across an interesting email among the FOI disclosures from the member Trusts of the South-West NHS pay cartel. I believe that this...

‘Benefits and work’

 We have confirmation that the DWP is actively considering axeing employment and support allowance (ESA) payments for claimants who challenge a decision that they...
The first achievement highlighted by the Prime Minister in his Sunday Times article was deficit reduction: "We’ve got the deficit down by a quarter...
The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might...

Double Standards

This week, a British youth named Azhar Ahmed was found guilty of the crime of causing offence. Following the massacre of Afghans by, according...
A mixed picture for the people of Dorset. By far the worst figures locally are in Weymouth and Portland who sit at 71st out...
15 April 1989. As a 14 year old boy I witnessed, from the safety of another stand, 96 people be killed or fatally injured...