I have just read an intersting cable that was leaked on Thursday speculating on who would replace Gordon Brown and listing his possible successors. It praises David Miliband and James Purnell but contains a damning assessment of Ed Balls, and Harriet Ha

PART of the Winnipeg Remand Centre's gym has been turned into a dorm for overflow inmates, and literacy programs have been pared back due to lack of space. As of Monday morning, the province's jails had 928 more inmates than beds. And it's going to get w

Yet to read the media coverage around the intervention of the elder Miliband, you’d think this was a two dimensional, direct attacks on his brother and the party. The Telegraph, showing extraordinary clairvoyance, and mind reading prowess, describes Davi

The memory of George Hitchcock, hailed as Brampton’s fire safety guru following his death in 2007, will be kept alive with a special bursary, the city has announced. More than $31,000 has been donated by family, friends and the community toward the estab

The rising demand for ‘green collar’ working in manufacturing will place pressure on the domestic skills market and leave businesses without the engineering and environmental expertise they require, according to new research from engineering and environm

A FORMER Barrow MP has vowed to take the fight for Furness Enterprise to the House of Lords. BATTLE GOES TO LORDS: Former Barrow and Furness MP Lord John Hutton at the Furness First and Talking Business launch at Waterside House, with Furness Enterprise

The Lords will be debating crucial measures affecting disabled people in the government’s welfare reform bill this afternoon. Government is aiming to reduce the working age Disability Living Allowance caseload by an extraordinary half a million by 2015/1

Click on gallery images to view larger picture. When Sophie Harley took on the challenge of renovating a run-down Victorian flat, she updated it to maximise the space and turned it into a comfortable family home with stylish touches. The owners: Sophie H

Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 Ottawa -- Rob Perrins waterskis on a tobaggan during an outing with a group of friends on Buckham's Bay just prior to Christmas. The group is hoping to be able to take part in a January ski as well. Submitted photo by Rob Perrins.

Unafraid: It is rare to find a politician who puts the interests of the nation above petty partisan point-scoring In a profession crawling with opportunist pygmies, it is rare to find a politician who puts the interests of the nation above petty partisan

Unafraid: It is rare to find a politician who puts the interests of the nation above petty partisan point-scoring In a profession crawling with opportunist pygmies, it is rare to find a politician who puts the interests of the nation above petty partisan

The government must not make any more concessions over public sector pensions and auto-enrolment John Hutton has said. Speaking at an Eversheds pensions conference, Labour peer Hutton, who was commissioned by the government to create a package of public

The government must not make any more concessions over public sector pensions and auto-enrolment John Hutton has said. Speaking at an Eversheds pensions conference, Labour peer Hutton, who was commissioned by the government to create a package of public

The Government's public sector pension reviewer and former Labour Cabinet Minister John Hutton has warned that the deteriorating economy means that the figures on which the disputed offer, which caused strikes last week are based, may be undermined. Ci

Britain’s deteriorating economic outlook has made the need to overhaul public-sector pensions more urgent, according to the former minister who carried out a review of the system for Prime Minister David Cameron. “Change is going to be the order of the

The Big Man, just up from the coal mine, looks fit to burst with mirth. The Newhaven fishwife, in her striped skirt, presents a triumphantly empty basket. In the factory, the 19th-century cloth weavers pause from their labours before the camera's protrac

Parking and traffic around Oakley has been somewhat of a problem over the past two years because of a streetscape renovation project, but now that the project is complete Oakley is celebrating its improved eye appeal. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held F

If I were a teacher, I’d be on strike today. Public sector workers are being asked — in what is now a well-rehearsed soundbite — to work longer, receive less, and pay more. In these austere times, with deficit reduction a necessity, two of those three

Imagine a society in which dinner ladies, nurses, teachers and care assistants were demonised as “vested interests” and drains on the taxpayer. Imagine a country in which lollipop ladies and bin collectors were made to pay for a crisis caused by the poli