Media Fund partner, Open Democracy reported last week that The London Evening Standard has struck a £3m deal to provide positive news coverage for 6 major corporations.
The corporations include Google and Uber, whose ability to pay for such deals is enhanced by tax dodging and other questionable business practices.
The...
Multiple news outlets are this morning warning about the Private Members Bill 2nd Reading proposed by Christopher Chope MP.
The London Economic, Birmingham Live and Kitty S. Jones amongst others are highlighting the consequences of the bill being successful.
'Christopher Chope, a Barrister and the Conservative MP for Christchurch, has proposed...
Weymouth has two well-known problems – a massive wealth gap between the haves and have nots and also huge house prices relative to the earnings.
The average house price is 13 times the average income – the average income earner would take 13 years to pay the mortgage on an...
The following represents what is wrong with those who don't stop and think. No recognition of the carnage many Brits have reeked abroad and at home. An admission that voting for Brexit and the Tory party is based upon anger (often irrational it appears).
Make your own mind up.
"So tonight...
Very saddened but not surprised by a reply to a comment I made on one of my birth town of Walsall's FB groups page. I replied to a question and mentioned that I now live on Portland. A group member replied that she used to go on holiday for...
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council has been successful in securing £1.7m in funding towards a ‘Heat Melcombe Regis’ initiative. The funding comes from National Grid’s ‘Warm Homes Fund’, and will go towards first time gas central heating installations in homes in the Melcombe Regis area. Grants could...
Parliament voted to remove free school meals for a million children on the 13th March. While the media was alight with the spy scandal, a vote went through that will result in some kids never being able to get a decent meal throughout the year.
Why does this matter? Hungry...
Concerns were recently raised at a meeting of Weymouth & Portland Borough Council. What follows here is a joint response from organisations that provide public services outlining the work that is being done to improve things. Thank you to Pete Barrow for raising important points (highlighted in bold...
Seriously, you need to read the letter from Corb's lawyers to Ben BRADLEY Tory MP. He thought that just by deleting the tweet (as soon as he was told to by Corbyn's lawyers) he had got away with it, but oh no indeedy. Oh no, no, no, no, no....
What should I be paid? The first thing you need to know is the minimum you should be paid. The UK National Minimum Wage for every age group can be found on the Minimum Wage website here Legal… just The first method we look at how employers underpay their staff...
