can cost up to £4 an hour – as a ‘stealth tax on the sick’ and their relatives. The charges rake in tens of millions of pounds a year for the Treasury while also generating bumper profits for private parking firms recruited by the NHS to run them.

Education

Times
Tens of thousands of students are graduating from British universities without basic maths or literacy skills, a global figure in education suggested yesterday. England has almost the highest proportion of graduates in school-leaver jobs of any developed country, and many are in those jobs because they lack basic numeracy and literacy, according to the education director of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which published its annual education report. Andreas Schleicher said at its launch in London that questions shouldweeks rather than hundreds of years will be highlighted today when the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew publishes its first report on the world’s fungi. Experts from around the world will gather at the internationally renowned gardens in west London this week to discuss the future of research into the conservation and use of fungi. Scientists working on a rubbish dump in Islamabad found a fungi whose enzyme broke down plastics such as polyester polyurethane.

About The Author

Debbie has been a journalist for longer than she cares to admit! She has been freelance for the last 15 years and is an associate editor on UKIP Daily, specialising in covering the morning press each day.

2 Comments

Snow Elephant
on September 12, 2018 at 9:22 am

Conservatives – they keep playing delay game, how