'I'm doing two jobs and I still find it hard - can George Galloway really change things?'
Rochdale is at the bottom of a miserable league. That's according to the man running to be the town's MP again.
Poverty Sport News
Expensive away games: Poverty, profit, performance hobble demand for local league
With return tickets for players and officials to venues of 15 away matches costing over N2 billion in a season, the prohibitive cost of air travel has forced football clubs in the country to stick to gruelling and hazardous road trips, which compromises not only players’ health but also their performance on the pitch, and attendant quality of the game. Unfortunately, huge government financing has watered down agitation for an abridged cum regional league format, just as team managers are also making a fortune keeping their players on the road for days – at the expense of football development, CHRISTIAN OKPARA reports.
The 'national scandal' behind Salford council's plan to give food vouchers to children
Salford's mayor said child poverty is a "national scandal" as the council extended a plan to give food vouchers to children during school holidays.
The Stockport village that voted Conservative but now 'wants the Tories out'
"It's quite terrifying that I have a good job which is reasonably well paid, but I can't afford a lot of basic things", says Mark Pillotti, a supply teacher in Hazel Grove.
Peace and global security top the agenda at the World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue
Over 700 participants from 110 countries came together in Baku for the sixth World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue.
British Gas boss calls for 'social tariff' and end to energy bill postcode lottery
The bosses of Centrica and E.On have called for sweeping reforms to how UK energy bills are calculated, following years of price shocks that have left millions of UK households struggling to make ends meet.
Euroviews. Women are being murdered in the Western Balkans, and it is time to take action
On 17 April, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani declared a national day of mourning to commemorate all women and girls killed through femicide.
'I left Manchester to live in the Canary Islands - this is what it's really like'
Each year, tens of thousands of Mancunians jet out to the Canary Islands for sun, sea and sand.