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How to Manage Your Living Expenses as an International Student in Liverpool?

Studying in Liverpool as an international student offers an exciting academic and cultural experience, but managing daily living expenses is an essential part of student life. From accommodation and groceries to transportation and leisure activities, costs can quickly add up without proper planning. Therefore, learning how to budget effectively and make smart spending decisions is key to maintaining a balanced student lifestyle while studying in the city.

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Firefighters to join mass strike action

Firefighters in England and Wales will join hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers taking strike action on Thursday 10 July, the Fire Brigades Union has announced.

The long-running dispute over firefighters’ pensions will see a further day of strikes at the same time as a walk out by local government workers, teachers and civil servants over a range of issues, including attacks on pay and pensions and workloads.

The strike will last between 10am and 7pm and will be the 15th in the FBU’s campaign. The union is also expected to announce further action later this...

Calls for change in attitude to disabled

The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities are calling for a change to the language used about people with learning disabilities and the way they are represented in the media, in order to tackle the increase in bullying, harassment and hate crime.

Social media and the internet are places where high levels of bullying and hate crime are experienced by people with learning disabilities, as well as when they are at home, at work or out in their communities.

As well as campaigning for more positive representation in society and the media, the Foundation, working with...

Much-needed affordable rural homes open in Steppes

Raglan Housing celebrated the creation of much-needed affordable rural housing this month with the official opening of Nine Barrow View, a brand-new development of eight rental properties in Steppes, Langton Matravers, on the Isle of Purbeck. The smart new homes - which are close to the popular seaside town of Swanage and exclusively for local people – built by C G Fry & Son were opened by Richard Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset.

Nine Barrow View, which the housing association has delivered in partnership with Purbeck District Council, Langton Matravers Parish Council...

Young Brits are saving rather than spending

Young Britons are bucking the trend of the generation before them by choosing to save rather than spend, according to new figures out this week. The findings indicate that over five million 18-24 year olds, approximately 66 per cent of the age group, manage to put money aside each month into savings or investments, each putting aside £204 on average.

According to the Disposable Income Index, a report commissioned by ISA provider Scottish Friendly and which examines saving and spending habits across the UK, the average 18-24 year old has around £3,200 in savings, even though over...

Labour woos businesses with tax incentive

Labour will today commit to maintaining the most competitive corporation tax rate in the G7 while making reforms to support long-term investment and tackle tax avoidance.

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, will set out Labour’s approach to business tax in a speech to the London Business School and in a policy document he is publishing with Shabana Mahmood MP, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary.

The speech will also set out the long-term reforms Labour will make to ensure Britain can earn its way out of the cost-of-living crisis and deliver rising prosperity for all,...

Be wary of airport 'meet-and-greets'

New Which? research has revealed what can happen to your car when you hand your keys to airport meet-and-greet companies and whether they’re really worth the money.

They fitted GPS trackers to cars left with three private meet-and-greet providers at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports. Our trackers followed where they went and how fast they were driven for six days.

Which? found:

Of the three private meet-and-greet companies they looked at, Meteor Meet and Greet in Stansted, drove the 'customer's' car at nearly 100mph straight after leaving the terminal....

A century on, World War One is not forgotten

Research commissioned by The Times WWI Centenary Facsimile has revealed the British that the public has a good grasp on some key facts about World War One, but there are areas for improvement.

Nearly seven in ten (69%) people knew that Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, while 57% knew that Britain became involved in WWI because of a treaty with Belgium to defend it if it was invaded. However 18% thought that Britain became involved to stop the rise of Nazi Germany, while 17% believed that Hitler was the leader of Germany at the time, and 19% thought he was only a...

Rooney and teammates seize fake shirts

Hundreds of fake England football shirts have been seized during the World Cup at London’s Heathrow Airport - by Rooney and his temmates.

A team from Border Force – containing officer Sean Rooney – discovered the consignment of more than 400 home and away replica jerseys in freight on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 June.

The shirts, which had been imported from Hong Kong, have now been confirmed as fake by the official England kit manufacturers, Nike.

Sean said: "The package from Hong Kong was labelled up as being glassware, so when I opened it up and saw the shirts I...

East Devon MP visits South America

East Devon MP Hugo Swire visited Costa Rica and Colombia this week, following recent elections in both countries. He met the new administration in Costa Rica and renewed ties with President Santos’ re-elected government in Colombia. He also visited Guatemala, where he held talks with President Otto Perez Molina.

The Foreign Office Minister met representatives of UK firms in each country, to support their investment and export efforts and boost jobs and growth back in the UK. He promoted British expertise in sectors from energy to agricultural technology, and lobbied on important...

Minister advocates 'staycation'- from Brazil!

Tourism Minister Helen Grant has suggested people caught up in the passports fiasco caused by a massive backlog should holiday at home - as she poses for pictures at the World Cup in Brazil!

Ms Grant said she was “confident” that the backlog of 30,000 passport applications would be dealt with before people planned to go abroad this summer, but added that there was “a lot to be said for the ‘staycation’”.

Asked about the situation in an interview with the House magazine, Ms Grant said: "I'm in no doubt, I'm very confident that people will get their passports...but if they...

UK News

How to Manage Your Living Expenses as an International Student in Liverpool?

Firefighters to join mass strike action

Calls for change in attitude to disabled

Much-needed affordable rural homes open in Steppes

Young Brits are saving rather than spending

Labour woos businesses with tax incentive

Be wary of airport 'meet-and-greets'

A century on, World War One is not forgotten

Rooney and teammates seize fake shirts

East Devon MP visits South America

Minister advocates 'staycation'- from Brazil!

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