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Muslim women call for more equality in running UK mosques

Activists challenge lack of prayer spaces and exclusion from management roles Muslim women in Scotland are campaigning to be given more equal facilities for praying and to be involved in running mosques. Scottish Mosques For All was set up to highlight the importance of including women in decision-making. More than a quarter of mosques in the UK have no facilities ...

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Sadiq Khan: London planners must prepare for no-deal Brexit

Mayor instructs resilience forum to assess impact of food and medicine shortages Sadiq Khan is to instruct the body tasked with planning for terrorism attacks and disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire to start making preparations for a no-deal Brexit, to assess whether London could face potential shortages of medicines and food. The London mayor said the government was ...

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Home Office pressed for details over use of child spies

Committee seeks explanation of how practice complies with international law Parliament’s human rights committee has asked the government to explain how the police and security services’ use of child spies is reconciled with international law. In the first step of a potential investigation into child spies, the joint committee on human rights has asked the Home Office to explain how ...

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A-levels: proportion of students in England getting C or above falls

Results in England drop after exam changes, but Wales and Northern Ireland do better A-level results day 2018: drop in students scoring C or above after changes – as it happened The proportion of students in England gaining C grades or above in A-levelsfell back this year, driven by a relatively weaker performance among girls, as schools and students continue ...

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Brussels rebuffs idea of escalating Brexit talks to leaders’ summit

Officials dismiss hopes that May could break deadlock by negotiating with states directly European officials have poured cold water on hopes that Theresa May could negotiate Brexit with other EU leaders in September to break the deadlock over Britain’s departure. Diplomatic sources have rejected suggestions that May could hold direct talks on Brexit with the 27 other EU heads of ...

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Labour hits out at ‘false’ claims over Corbyn cemetery visit

Party says leader had been attending memorial to Palestinian airstrike victims Labour has hit out at what it said were “false and misleading” claims about Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to the Palestinian cemetery in Tunis and insisted he had attended an annual memorial for victims of an Israeli air attack on the Palestine Liberation Organisation headquarters in October 1985. The party ...

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British expats in EU launch Brexit legal challenge

Group says leave campaign broke electoral law, making 2016 vote unconstitutional British expatriates have launched a fresh legal challenge against the 2016 referendum, arguing that the result has been invalidated by the Electoral Commission’s ruling on leave campaign spending. The judicial review against the prime minister, Theresa May, has been submitted to the high court in London by the UK ...

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Pay growth slows to weakest in a year despite fall in joblessness

Jobless rate declines to 4% in the three months to June, the lowest since the winter of 1975 Pay growth in Britain has slowed to its weakest in almost a year despite a fall in the jobless rate to a fresh 43-year low and the biggest annual drop in workers from the EU since modern records began more than two ...

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May urged to go further in plan to end rough sleeping by 2027

Government unveils £50m fund but admits no new money has been made available for it A £50m fund to provide homes for people ready to leave homeless hostels or domestic abuse refuges in England has been announced by ministers, as part of a wider strategy aimed at eliminating rough sleeping by 2027. The scheme is a response to the growing ...

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Socialisation in the knowledge society

By Taslim Ahammad: Socialisation in the knowledge management (next 19) Socialisation impacts human relationships in the society and businesses in several ways. In general, socialisation determines the way in which employees perceive teamwork, work habits and the exchange of information, which are all important factors for organisation and the social order. Socialisation is the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating ...

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