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Stagecoach, one of the UK’s biggest bus operators, has confirmed it is making permanent its ground-breaking discounted bus travel scheme for jobseekers.

The company launched the country’s first long-term nationwide initiative as a six-month pilot in February 2013, giving thousands of jobseekers across the UK a 50% discount on their bus travel to help them find employment.

New figures show jobseekers are making nearly 20,000 discounted bus journeys a month under the scheme, which is funded entirely on a commercial basis by Stagecoach without any public sector support....

Coleen Rooney has been named Ambassador of the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards 2014 and will help find incredible mums to be honoured at the awards ceremony next year.

Following in the footsteps of Denise Van Outen and Sara Cox, Coleen is encouraging the public to name the most deserving mums in the UK, who will be celebrated at a glittering star-studded luncheon at a luxury hotel in London the weekend before Mothers’ Day, next year. “Coleen was chosen to be our Ambassador because charity work lies very close to her heart. She manages to juggle a busy home life with two young boys...

The government has lent its support to encourage people to leave money to charity in their wills.

As part of this week’s Remember A Charity in your Will campaign the Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd will call on UK solicitors to raise the topic with clients.

The joint letter from the minister and Remember A Charity will accompany a nationwide poster campaign and social media campaign to raise public awareness.

Already supporting the campaign are the Co-operative Legal Services which will be promoting charitable bequests to customers in the process of writing...

Ed Miliband will today (Tuesday 10 September) declare his ambition to build a mass membership One Nation Labour Party rooted in the lives of working people and communities across Britain.

In his speech to the TUC in Bournemouth, he will acknowledge that the reforms he proposes are a massive challenge and that some people are worried about change. But he will say the current system of affiliation for trade unionists must change so that they have a real choice as individuals about being part of the party - and a real voice within it.

Mr MIliband proposes that individual union...