Today in the House of Commons, Conservative MPs talked out a bill that would have stopped companies using fire and rehire tactics. The Bill, brought be Labour’s Barry Gardiner MP, sought to address the practice used by companies to fire workers and re-employ them on lower pay with poorer conditions.Continue Reading

An aerial view of Canterbury cathedral and the city centre

Southend-on-Sea is to be accorded the status of city in honour of David Amess. On October 18, 2021, three days after the Conservative MP was murdered in his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Boris Johnson announced the Queen had agreed to the grant. Seeing Southend acquire this new label had longContinue Reading

GOOD MORNING FOOTY FANS SunSport can exclusively reveal Romelu Lukaku faces a month out – dealing Chelsea a serious blow in the title race. The club’s record £97.5million signing twisted his ankle during Wednesday’s 4-0 Champions League win over Malmo. And he now faces three to four weeks on the sidelinesContinue Reading

Picual has an obvious opportunity, by process of elimination! Picual is the sole Sir Michael Stoute-trained declaration in a seven-runner Fillies’ Novice Stakes over seven furlongs of Newcastle tapeta tonight and should ‘build’ sufficiently on an encouraging ‘quiet’ debut to prevail under champion all-weather jockey Richard Kingscote. Originally my selectionContinue Reading

On Sunday 24 October the White Ensign will once again fly over Exeter when the Exeter Flotilla commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar at its 11:45 Service in Exeter Cathedral.  The Service will be attended by the Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, Admiral Chris Snow, the High Sheriff of Devon, Lady Lucy Studholme,Continue Reading

Egg-ceptional MULTI-AWARD-WINNING, high welfare free range eggs! Owners Sharon and Andrew Jeffery photographed with late Poultry Industry Hero Winston Westcott  Sharon and Andrew Jeffery, owners of Little Hollacombe Farm, pride themselves in raising their hens to lay only the best eggs. Following excellent welfare practices, the Jefferys have been awardedContinue Reading