British workers are missing out on £10,700 a year after more than a decade of weak economic growth and high inequality, according to a major report warning that UK living standards are falling behind comparable rich nations.more
Britain will lose 23,000 free-to-use cash machines in less than 10 years as credit and debit cards become the default payment method, the boss of the UK’s ATM network has warned.more
The latest in a string of branch closures will see the final bank close in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's constituency of Richmond. A further 17 Barclays branches will shut, the bank has now announced.more
The number of people with norovirus in hospital in England is 179% higher than the average at this time of year, official data shows, as the NHS comes under mounting winter pressure.more
Poles are increasingly positive about the direction of changes taking place in the country. Compared to the previous month, there was a decrease in those who believe that changes in Poland are heading in the wrong direction (down 13 percentage points, to 38%), according to the November CBOS poll.more
The leader of Poland 2050 and the new Speaker of the Sejm, Szymon Holownia, currently enjoys the highest trust. In second place was the current leader of this classification, President Andrzej Duda. PSL leader Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz was promoted to third place, according to the November CBOS poll.more
A drug which stops HIV infecting the body has proved to be a highly effective "real-world" preventative treatment, a study has confirmed. The results of the research on 24,000 people taking it across England, have been described as "reassuring".more
The Russian Supreme Court recognized the "international LGBT social movement" as an "extremist organization" and decided to ban it, the independent portal "Novaya Gazeta. Yevropa" reported yesterday. The court considered the application of the Ministry of Justice, which demanded this ban, in four hours.more
At least 50,000 new nursing home places are needed in Ireland between now and 2051 to meet future demand, according to a projection from estate agents Sherry FitzGerald.more
Patients are at risk of having serious health conditions missed because of the lack of continuity of care provided by GPs, the NHS safety watchdog says.
Investigators highlighted the case of a man who was seen by eight different GPs before his cancer was spotted as an example of what can go wrong.more
A significant minority of human resources executives believe men are better suited to senior management than women, according to the results of a “shocking” poll.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered the Russian authorities to pay compensation to members of punk rock group Pussy Riot for refusing to register the social organisation three times, reported the Nastoyashchye Vremya portal, linked to Radio Svoboda.more
Almost 60 per cent of those surveyed believe that commissions of inquiry are needed into the envelope election, the visa scandal and the Pegasus surveillance, while 32 per cent have the opposite view, according to a United Surveys poll for RMF FM and "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more
Headteachers in England have described a culture of non-compliance among pupils, as talks were held to try to avert further strikes at a school in Kent where staff walked out over student behaviour.more
Loneliness does not only affect older people, as many as 65% of people struggle with it regularly. people from Generation Z, i.e. people aged 13 to 28 - showed the study "No More Loneliness". What they want most is direct contact with other people.more
Potentially toxic “forever chemicals” have been detected in the drinking water sources at 17 of 18 England’s water companies, with 11,853 samples testing positive, something experts say they are “extremely alarmed” by.more
Several tens of thousands of people marched through central London yesterday afternoon in a demonstration against anti-Semitism. This is the first such demonstration since the Palestinian organization Hamas attacked Israel, which resulted in a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents.more
Tens of thousands of people took part in the weekly solidarity march with the Palestinians yesterday to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Police arrested eight people and also detained a group that had split off from the main march.more
Footbridge named after Bernatka, Tauron Arena and the TV tower in Krzemionki will be illuminated in orange on Saturday as part of the "Orange the World" campaign to draw attention to the problem of violence against women.more
The UK's most densely populated area has been named and it's no surprise it is in London. But, this neighbourhood may not be the expected top spot, as it has beaten off some crammed full areas including King's Cross and Clapham.more
51.3 per cent of Poles believe that Sejm Speaker Szymon Hołownia will do his utmost to make the Sejm a place of substantive and cultural political debate. The opposite view is held by 39.2 per cent. - according to the IBRiS poll for 'Rzeczpospolita'.more
The old saying goes that it takes a whole village to raise a child. Such collective childcare is an invention as old as humanity. And very effective - according to anthropologists from Cambridge University. A study they conducted showed that in primitive societies, children had better - because they gave more involvement to their caregivers - care than they do today in Western culture.more
In 2020, 2,813 marriages were declared invalid in the Catholic Church in Poland - that's 1.8 percent of the total number of marriages performed that year. Less than 5 percent of those granted a civil divorce are taken to church courts, according to the ISKK report "Annulment of Marriage in the Catholic Church in Poland."more
In 2022, net net migration to the UK was 745,000, not 606,000. as previously reported - the British statistical office ONS announced today, presenting corrected data. This is by far the highest net migration since the end of World War II.more
