Wednesday 22 May 2013
With less than a week to go until the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, many of the 250,000 people across the UK living with the chronic, disabling condition ME are worried - with good cause.
George Osborne will announce a further £10bn in welfare cuts .
Not only will people with ME be forced to keep fighting for support in a benefits system that doesn't understand their condition but, for those that are cut, money will be harder to stretch.
SONYA CHOWDHURY
Chief executive, Action for ME
David Cameron is facing a fresh bout of Tory strife after the coalition's plans to introduce gay marriage cleared the Commons.
Around 600 Afghan interpreters are to be offered the chance to settle in Britain after an apparent coalition rethink.
Most typical household electricity bills in Northern Ireland will increase by £90 a year from July 1.
Tony Pulis' seven-year reign as Stoke manager has come to an end after he and the club agreed to part company by mutual consent.
Alex Corbisiero is desperate to put an injury-ravaged season behind him and reassert his position as England's first-choice loosehead prop in the upcoming fixtures against the Barbarians and Argentina.
British and Irish Lions flanker Sean O'Brien could yet play for Leinster in Saturday's RaboDirect PRO12 final after making rapid progress in his recovery from a knee injury.
Apprentice hopefuls are hoping to avoid an udder disaster as they try to cream off the biggest profit in their latest task.
Bolder joined David Bowie's backing band in 1971, appearing on classic albums including Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane. He went on to join Uriah Heep five years later and only stopped playing with the band a few months ago, due to his poor health.
La dolce vita has arrived in Cannes thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.
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