British Isles
Thursday, 07 September 2023 21:26
Pray for bankrupt Birmingham
Birmingham City Council has announced that it is bankrupt, and all new spending will stop, with the exception of money protecting vulnerable people and legal services. Following the bankruptcy announcement, Birmingham’s faith leaders raised a ‘Call…
Thursday, 07 September 2023 21:14
Church’s statement over RAAC school closures
As families navigate the start of school, the Church of England has released a statement following news that 156 schools are at risk of collapsing because a type of concrete known as 'RAAC' was used in…
Thursday, 07 September 2023 21:12
A generation of children’s mental health
Shelter states that two-thirds of families living in temporary accommodation (TA) have been there for over a year; some families have lived in TA for more than ten years. TA is usually overcrowded and of very…
Thursday, 07 September 2023 21:09
Escaped criminal: prisons scandal
Khalife, a former soldier who was on remand at HMP Wandsworth, a category B prison rather than a high-security prison, escaped by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van. Professor Ian Acheson, a former prison…
Thursday, 07 September 2023 21:07
Average price of a home falls by £14,000 in a year
House prices fell at their fastest annual rate in 14 years in August as rising mortgage rates affected the market. ‘We may be seeing a greater impact from higher mortgage costs flowing through to house prices,’…
Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:07
Christians and workplace discrimination
The Catholic Union, Christian Institute, and Evangelical Alliance have written to the chair of the human rights committee, asking for religious freedom to be a ‘key part’ of a parliamentary inquiry into human rights at work.…