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It is now a criminal offence to own an XL bully dog in England and Wales without an exemption certificate. Unregistered pets can be seized and owners fined and prosecuted, with a police chief urging owners of the illegal animals to comply with officers if their dog is taken because their behaviour may influence a court's decision to have it put down.more

Treatments for seven conditions such as sore throats and earaches are now available directly from pharmacists, without the need to visit a doctor. The Pharmacy First scheme will allow most chemists in England to issue some medications to patients without appointments or referrals. NHS England says it will free up about 10 million GP appointments a year.more

The proportion of people aged 16 or older in England and Wales who are married or in a civil partnership has fallen below 50% for the first time. The figure dropped to 49.7% in 2021 and then to 49.4% in 2022, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).more

Unemployed young people are having to turn down jobs because they cannot afford associated costs such as clothes and transport, a Prince’s Trust study has found.more

London's outstanding school system is under threat as an exodus of families from the capital is forcing increasing numbers of schools to close, stark new data reveals.more

Disposable vapes are set to be banned as part of plans to tackle the rising number of young people taking up vaping, the government says. Measures will also be introduced to prevent vapes being marketed at children and to target under-age sales. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suggested adult smokers trying to quit would still have access to alternatives like vapes under the proposals.more

The lowest level of ethnic prejudice in Ukraine concerns Ukrainians themselves (Ukrainian-speaking people) and Poles, while the highest - among Russians and Belarusians - according to the results of a study conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KMIS).more

Employers in the eastern and southern parts of the country have the greatest difficulty in finding competent employees, while those in the central and northern parts of the country have the least, according to the 'Talent Shortage' report. Staff shortages are mainly indicated by companies employing between 250 and 1,000 people and more than 5,000.more

Last year, the number of anti-Semitic incidents relating to the Holocaust more than doubled in Great Britain compared to 2022, according to data from the Jewish charity Community Security Trust (CST), quoted by Sky News.more

Food distribution charity The Felix Project revealed in a new survey that almost nine in 10 community organisations they support are concerned about increasing demand in 2024.more

The most frequently given names in Poland in 2023 were Zofia and Nikodem, the Ministry of Digitalisation reported. Also on the 'podium' among female names were Zuzanna and Laura, and among male names were Antoni and Jan.more

77 per cent of Poles feel satisfied with their lives. Nineteen per cent assess its level as average and three per cent are dissatisfied with their lives, according to the CBOS survey.more

Almost all grocery shop formats experienced a decline in traffic in 2023. Discounters were the only ones in a slight plus, reports today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

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Asda is converting more of its superstore petrol forecourts to card-only, unmanned operations with staff being redeployed into its stores. The supermarket chain has 300 forecourts attached to superstores with half of those already unmanned. more

Ordinary citizens should be "trained and equipped" to fight in the military in the event of war with Russia, because the current size of the armed forces is insufficient, British Army Commander Gen Patrick Sanders announced yesterday.more

The World Health Organization (WHO) describes last year's almost 45-fold increase in the number of measles cases in Europe as "alarming." Measles is known as the most contagious of all viral diseases. It is enough for an infected person to just look into a room for the viruses to infect all susceptible people present there via droplets.more

Dogs bought in the pandemic have high rates of problem behaviours, a Royal Veterinary College study suggests. It estimates high rates of behaviours such as separation anxiety and aggression towards other dogs. New owners are more likely to use punishment in training which risks worsening behaviour, the study's author warns.more

Nearly half of respondents cite a higher salary as the most important reason for changing jobs, according to the 54th edition of the Labour Market Monitor survey published on Tuesday. Salesmen and cashiers were the most frequent job changers, it added.more

People in Aberdeen are a total of £45,000 worse off since 2010 after suffering the worst growth performance in the UK over the last decade, according to a report exposing the dangers of dependency on the fossil fuel industry amid the climate crisis.more

One third of UK adults will run out of money by the end of January due to higher winter bills and financial strain from Christmas expenses, a survey says. Personal finance company Credit Karma found that 56% of those who will run out of money during the month will have spent their entire monthly income by January 20.more

Cases of measles have been rising across England, with the latest outbreaks centred in the West Midlands and London. Health officials are encouraging people to have the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab, after figures showed uptake at the lowest level for more than a decade.more

The government has backed proposals to make stealing cats and dogs a specific criminal offence in England and Northern Ireland. A bill which would create an offence of "pet abduction" passed its first Commons hurdle unopposed on Friday. more

The Home Office has made a significant U-turn on the rights of EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit. It is going to reverse a rule it made in August that barred those who mistakenly applied for permanent residency cards after the referendum to make a late application for EU settled status if they were unaware of the specially created immigration scheme.more

A petition calling for Wales to change its name to Cymru is to be considered for debate in the country's parliament. More than 10,000 people have now signed the online petition which calls for the name "Wales" to be abolished. Now that it has passed that total, it will be considered by the Petitions Committee for a debate in Senedd Cymru.more