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msn.com | Olivia Sheed
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Olivia Sheed
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application process has been interrogated a lot lately, especially in the wake of the controversial green paper put forward by the Labour party. First, we , then we examined the mental impact. Now, we examine the statistical impact, and found that nearly a quarter of a million of disabled people could be missing out on benefits they are entitled to.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
Millions of people in the UK are now of State Pension age. Despite increases in recent years, and throughout changes in government, protests against policies and a cost-of-living crisis, pensioners have been through the financial wringer. Thankfully for many, if the purse strings feel a little tight, people can claim more than one DWP benefit at a time.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, with his funeral taking place less than a week after, this Saturday. Due to start at 10am local time (9am BST), coverage of the event will be broadcast live on BBC One. An 87-page booklet was recently published on the Vatican website, detailing the order of events of the service. Francis’s funeral mass will begin at 10am in St Peter’s Square on Saturday and is expected to attract 200,000 pilgrims.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
Mental health in regards to PIP (Personal Independence Payment) has long been a controversial topic. As of January 2025, over 400,000 people on PIP were claiming for anxiety and depression, one of the most common disability classifications among PIP claimants. Mental illness is often hard to pin down when it comes to PIP, since it isn’t as obvious as something like a wheelchair or cane, but has become more and more prevalent of late amongst disabled people for a number of reasons.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
On Easter Monday, Pope Francis, head of the Catholic church, passed away aged 88. Tributes poured in from Catholics across the world as well as world leaders who knew the late pontiff, expressing condolences at the death of the much-loved religious leader. Since the announcement of his death, Vatican City has been enacting centuries-old traditions for the death of a Pope, in the lead-up to his funeral. An open casket display has been up since Wednesday for the faithful to give their condolences.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
Drivers across England say they are being sent demands for up to £170 from private parking companies due to faulty licence plate recognition machines. One campaigner believes "thousands" of people have been affected by the malfunctioning machines. Modern ticketing machines may ask drivers to input their car's registration when paying, which will be checked against automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
Hobbycraft has announced plans to shut at least nine stores across the UK in a move impacting up to 126 jobs as part of a restructuring effort from private equity firm owner Modella Capital. The firm is launching the overhaul after buying the arts and crafts retailer in August last year, and who recently made headlines for buying out fellow high street veteran WH Smith's. It said nine stores will stop trading by mid-July, affecting between 72 and 126 jobs.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclelive.co.uk | Olivia Sheed
The lineup for the wildly popular Celebrity Traitors has been leaked by The Sun, with many big names due to walking the Traitor's grounds. The BBC reality show saw massive spikes in popularity each year since it's release. Series 3 broadcast earlier this year saw record viewership numbers, as Claudia Winkleman led the contestants in a game similar to Mafia (or Werewolf), where an informed minority, known as the "Traitors", must eliminate an uninformed majority known as the "Faithfuls".
