A new legal right to unpaid leave after a bereavement will cover step and half relatives, alongside foster, kinship care and adoptive relationships, the government has announced. From April next year, workers in Great Britain who lose a spouse, partner, parent, adult child or sibling will be entitled to two weeks' unpaid leave. The rights will also cover miscarriages before twenty-four weeks. Previously, only parents losing a child under eighteen […]

Few meals inspire quite as much opinion as breakfast. Lunch can be whatever happens to be available, dinner can change completely from one day to the next, but breakfast seems to come with rules. Everybody has a preference, most people have strong opinions about what belongs on the plate, and somewhere along the line we have all decided that our way of doing breakfast is perfectly reasonable while somebody else's […]

The UK will provide defensive military support to Saudi Arabia against attacks from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has confirmed. Speaking on his way to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Mr Burnham said he agreed to the request following advice from the Defence and Foreign Secretaries. The support will be limited to air-to-air refuelling for Saudi planes on defensive missions, utilizing one RAF Voyager […]