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Many Britons 'fear mortgage arrears'
2014-01-03 03:13:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A survey for homelessness charity Shelter suggests a third of Britons expect to struggle to keep up with their housing payments during this year.
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Arctic 30: five Britons on way home from Russia
2013-12-27 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five Britons who were among the Arctic 30 are on their way home from St Petersburg, three months after Russian authorities seized their ship and arrested them. Members of the group were initially charged with piracy and held in jail for two months before being given bail and then granted amnesty. Anthony Perrett, 32, of Newport, south Wales, will arrive in Paris on Friday and then travel by Eurostar to London with fellow Greenpeace activists Alexandra Harris and Phil Ball, a crew member of...
Arctic 30: Six Britons still Russian detention despite bail orders
2013-11-21 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: All but four of the Arctic 30, arrested aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker two months ago, have now been granted bail by St Petersburg courts, and 11 of the 30 have actually been released. But so far none of the six Britons involved has been able to leave detention. On Thursday, Frank Hewetson, a 45-year-old logistics co-ordinator from north London, and Iain Rogers, a crew member on the Arctic Sunrise, joined communications officer Alexandra Harris, activist Anthony Perrett and journalist Kieron Bryan...
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VIDEO: Britons 'waste six meals a week'
2013-11-07 09:00:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Research by an anti-waste group suggests British families throw away the equivalent of six meals per week.
4.8m Britons 'earn below living wage'
2013-09-04 06:11:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The number of UK workers earning less than the so-called living wage has risen to 4.8 million, a report by the Resolution Foundation think tank suggests.