The Labour Party has called on the UK Government to urgently release a hidden report on compensation for victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA terrorism.
Following years of campaigning, an independent report was commissioned by the Government to examine how frozen Libyan assets worth billions in the UK might be used to compensate victims of IRA violence in the 1980s and 1990s.
Former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross submitted the report last March - but it has not been made public.
Just a week after the DUP s Ian Paisley and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood signed a letter from a group of cross-party MPs demanding its immediate publication, the Shadow Secretary of State Louise Haigh has written to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab about the issue.
THE new year brings changes to the way in which British farmers qualify for grants and payments, leading to calls for many to check that they are still financially viable during this turbulent period of transition. Before the outcome of Brexit, the EU system of payments meant that farmers were paid based on the amount of land that they farmed, with this scheme finishing when the post-Brexit transition period ended on January 1, 2021. The new Environmental Land Management (ELM) system will pay farmers for helping the environment, using initiatives like flood prevention, planting woods and helping wildlife.
England and Scotland: In England, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has set out a roadmap of how the transition will take place. Changes have meant that the payments based on the amount of land a farmer owns will be phased out, to be replaced with the new ELM system.