Former minister Paul Burstow warns ‘penny-pinching’ is condemning people to a lifetime of mental ill health
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Mar 15
Bedroom tax: why you should march against this heartless, pointless ‘reform’
Mass evictions of the most vulnerable are no way to tackle the housing benefit bill, and we must do all we can to stop them
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Mar 13
Bedroom tax ‘in chaos’ after Iain Duncan Smith announces exemptions
Work and pensions secretary says foster carers and parents with children in armed forces will not have to pay for spare bedrooms.
The changes will mean that about 5,000 approved foster carers will now be exempted from the bedroom tax, which from April will see people in social housing charged for empty bedrooms. They will be allowed an additional room as long as they have fostered a child or become a registered carer in the past 12 months.
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Feb 28
Local councils want full control over setting council tax bills, study finds
Tory plans for local government prompt backlash as nearly half of councils plan to raise bills and 80% want power to set rates
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Feb 22
The Lib Dems must not stand for any more lies over the NHS
The Tories have misled their coalition partners – and us – repeatedly over the true extent of their health service vandalism
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Feb 13
Poundland ruling ‘blows big hole’ through government work schemes
Graduate Cait Reilly succeeds in legal challenge to programme under which she was required to work unpaid at discount store
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Feb 12
This Poundland ruling is a welcome blow to the Work Programme
It’s invaluable that three judges have ruled in the Cait Reilly case against an appalling back-to-work system
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Stoke Live
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Entertainment
- Martin Tideswell: Pets' Corner, a railway and a shire horse... May 12, 2013
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- First mobile phone was the size of a house brick May 4, 2013
Theatre News
- REVIEW - Columnist Daniel Keen's verdict on New Jersey Nights
- Film star Tara Fitzgerald comes to Stoke-on-Trent (video)
- We've had the best show of our lives: Dirty Dancing is The Regent...
- New Vic Theatre announces Christmas 2013 show
- Singers compete for chance to win prestigious opera prize in...
- Cinderella Christmas panto: 'It's the best show in years in...
- Review: Eric in Wonderland, at the New Vic
