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West England Combined Authority (Weca) has announced that the £1 child fare cap is being extended until Spring 2029. Weca is investing some of the Bus Grant secured from the Department of Transport, to co...
Starting April 1, 2026, National Rail is implementing stricter refund rules for several popular ticket types, potentially affecting millions of commuters and travellers across the UK. This update tightens the w...
Look, I get it, work sucks, even when you love what you do. The amount of days that I can’t be arsed to work outweighs the days I actually get off massively. That’s why God invented ‘pulling a sickie’. There’s n...
Crave only opened on Exeter’s Quayside in the summer of 2024, but has already built a cultlike following—crowned ‘Devon’s best restaurant’ by countless outlets—for its unfussy, but flavour-packed food. The team...
The UK government is set to roll out a new employment scheme offering grants to companies that take on unemployed young people, in a bid to tackle stubbornly high youth joblessness and kickstart careers stalled by...
Noods Levels, the not-for-profit sister of Bristol’s iconic Noods Radio, has officially unveiled TREAD. Formerly a Greater Manchester Police vehicle, this now state-of-the-art mobile music studio is designed to bri...
Whether you’ve heard of the See No Evil street art festival (a sort of proto-UPFEST) or not, you will know its output. Nelson Street was transformed into one of Europe’s largest open-air graffiti galleries—wi...
In the current Kent outbreak, at least four of 15 invasive meningococcal disease cases have been confirmed as MenB, and two people aged between 18 and 21 have died. What is meningitis? Meningitis is an infec...
We may be coming out of cold and flu season, but there are some huge changes in the law around sick pay that you’ll want to be aware of. From 6 April the major changes to UK Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) will c...
There is almost a pub closing every week in the UK. That’s a travesty. In a time where the country’s soul is being fought over like a football, no matter what way you look at it, the public house is a cornerstone o...
