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A prominent drug dealer we helped put behind bars last year is now significantly poorer after we stripped him of his ill-gotten gains. Mohammed Osman was given a 15-year jail term in September for drug dealing....

Stimulating the house building market and getting Britain building is vital to keeping the construction industry moving beyond the completion of current projects, says the managing director of leading concrete manufacturer, Besblock. Andrew Huxley, MD of...

  Parents in Birmingham intend to pass on around £122,000 – 44% more than adults say they expect This significant transfer of wealth is rarely communicated risking bigger inheritance tax bills Almost a third (30%) have...

Rajinder Singh, aged 73, from Slough, known as the ‘Skipping Sikh’, has been recognised by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the Points of Light award. During the lockdown Rajinder has been filming exercise videos in his...

In April, the Museum of London announced that it was seeking to collect both objects and first-hand experiences to reflect Londoners’ lives during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, as part of the wider Collecting...

The NHS Test and Trace system is now up and running and anyone across the UK who shows symptoms of coronavirus can now get a free test to see if they have coronavirus. The Test &...

New research by Oxfam has found that half of 90 women polled scaled down their fashion purchasing habits during lockdown.    The survey of British women aged 18 to 55 revealed more than one in three didn’t buy any clothes in lockdown. This means almost 6 million1 shoppers stopped spending on fashion altogether, choosing instead to explore their existing wardrobes.  ...

Against a backdrop where the world is battling a disease that can leave people unable to breathe, the brutal murder of George Floyd has galvanised the Black Lives Matter movement – forcing many countries to turn...

Higher mortality rates linked to poverty, Public Health England investigation finds GMB, Britain’s general union, has spoken out following Public Health Eng- land’s delayed publication of its investi- gation into the discriminatory impact of the coronavirus...

After issuing a call to arms to business to help supply or manufacture PPE, the WMCA has teamed up with Medilink WM, the region’s industry association for the life sciences and medical tech- nology sectors and...