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The Redditch economy is powered by independent businesses, which create jobs for local people.

Read the editor's comment on why a shift in recognition for Filipino nurses' contribution to the UK health and care sector needs to continue.

All sections of the Labour Party need to unite around the need for leasehold reform if they wish to win the forthcoming general election

Labour blamed the statistics on "stagnant wages, low growth and a lack of interest in supporting women staying in, or re-entering, the workforce".

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said 'a Conservative government will always back our pensioners'

MailOnline has pulled together data on local authority regions, obtained from the Official for National Statistics, to show how cities and wider regions benefit claimant rates vary wildly.

Landlord Fizzy Living is charging £75 per month in 'pet rent' for tenants, but can landlords charge you for having pets?

Britain's Supreme Court will hand down its ruling on Wednesday on whether the British government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. WHY IS IMMIGRATION SUCH AN ISSUE IN BRITAIN? Taking back control of the country's borders and ending the free movement of people was a major factor that led to the 2016 vote for Britain to leave the European Union.

The Rwanda plan, struck in April 2022 by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is designed to deter asylum seekers from making the dangerous journey of about 20 miles (32 km) across the Channel from Europe in small boats or inflatable dinghies to Englands southern beaches. Last year, a record 45,775 people were detected arriving without permission in Britain in this way. So far this year, more than 27,000 have arrived on small boats.

While 80 per cent of Cumbrias population said that they did not want a job, MPs and CEOs are fighting to save its hospitality and tourism sector from crashing.