Every year, HMRC issues a press release of all the 'hilarious' excuses it wouldn't accept for late returns, such as extraterrestrials and spilling coffee on the form.more
Millions of taxpayers have until 31 January to file their online self-assessment tax return. Act NOW to avoid a £100 fine for missing the deadline - especially if you're filing online for the first time or don't know your login details.more
A pensioner was detained for eight hours at an airport after Polish border guards wrongly suspected that she had kidnapped her two great-grandchildren.more
The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has asked a UK court to drop the arrest warrant that prevents him from leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living for five and a half years.more
A clear majority of voters say they will back the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and support the introduction of abortion on request up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy, the latest Irish Times/MRBI opinion poll finds.more
PLL LOT joined the social campaign, organized by NGOs and business, promoting the rules of applying for visas to the USA among Poles - Adrian Kubicki from LOT informed.more
LANDLORDS COULD HAVE to give private tenants at least three months' notice and tell incoming tenants what the previous rent was under a new bill that was published today. The bill, introduced by Social Democrats co-leader Roisín Shortall, has the backing of opposition parties Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, Labour and the Green Party.more
Fianna Fáil has described the rise in the number of people who had their Jobseeker's Allowance cut for lack of engagement with employment services as "worrying". The number of sanctions imposed by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has continued to rise each year since the measures were introduced in 2011.more
The UK Home Office has threatened to charge a £72 fee for applicants seeking so-called "settled status" in the UK, which grants them indefinite leave to remain. Applicants will have to demonstrate five years' continuous residence and pass a criminal record test.more
Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases in tow, his parents - both doctors - left behind a country on the verge of social turmoil. It was 1979, about two years before the country's authoritarian communist government declared martial law.more
The European Commission informed today that it received a letter from the Polish authorities regarding the Białowieża Forest. A source in the EC reported that after the ongoing analysis of its content, the Commission will refer to it.more
Thousands of women turned out for the global Women's March in London on Sunday despite the heavy rain and sleet, one year after millions marched in seven continents.
Across the road from Downing Street and stretching back past the memorial to women in the second world war, protesters chanted "Time's up" and "We want justice not revenge".more
Tech firms are removing more hate speech faster than before - so now EU lawmakers want them to improve their feedback to users.
According to the European Commission's latest review of the big four internet firms' action against illegal content online, the removal rate is, on average, 70 per cent of content reported.more
A GP accused of telling a female patient he liked rough sex is believed to be on the autism spectrum and may need specialist help to improve communications with patients. The middle-aged doctor was before a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry in Dublin yesterday.more
Parents will be allowed to choose the sex of their baby under proposed new legislation, it emerged yesterday. The right of parents to decide the gender to avoid passing on a serious inherited disease will be part of the first law regulating fertility treatments and will permit couples to only implant a healthy embryo in the womb.more
Three-fifths of new cars must be electric by 2030 to meet legal targets to cut greenhouse gases, ministers have been warned. New homes should also be built to more energy-efficient standards, the Committee on Climate Change said.more
Saudi Arabia has allowed female football fans into a stadium in the western city of Jiddah, marking the first time Saudi women were able to watch a game in person. The move comes as a part of wider liberalization drive.
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Smacking children could be outlawed in Wales following a twelve-week public consultation. The ban would make Wales the second UK region to prohibit the physical punishment of children.more
In the first quarter of this year, ID cards of 1 million people expire - informed the head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration Mariusz Blaszczak.more