Advertising and Donations - advertising-newsandtimes.comShelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents as police say firefighters were shot at while controlling fire
Firefighters in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, were ambushed by a gunman on Sunday while responding to a brush fire, ABC News reports.
Lt Jeff Howard of the Kootenai county sheriff’s office told the broadcaster firefighters were responding to a small but growing blaze on Canfield Mountain when they started getting shot at by an unknown person in the woods.
Committee says products may not be best use of public money and may have been mis-sold to people on certain benefits
Lifetime Isas could lead to savers making poor investment decisions and may not be the best use of public money, a cross-party committee of MPs has said.
In a report published on Monday, the Treasury select committee described rules which penalise benefit claimants as “nonsensical” and concluded that lifetime Isas, known as Lisas, may have been mis-sold to savers eligible for universal credit or housing benefit.
Sites will accommodate 4,000 children as part of ministers’ plan to improve childcare, Bridget Phillipson to announce
About 200 school-based nurseries will open in England this September as part of the government’s plan to improve access to childcare for working parents.
The milestone will be announced on Monday by Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, who will say that the sites will accommodate 4,000 children under school age.
Patient safety measure is part of 10-year plan to tackle poor standards in mental health and maternity services
The NHS is to become the first health system in the world to use AI to analyse hospital databases and catch potential safety scandals early, the government has said.
The Department of Health and Social Care said the technology will provide an early warning system which could detect patterns or trends and trigger urgent inspections. The scheme is part of the 10-year plan for the NHS that is due to be published by Wes Streeting this week.
Estimate by disability charity published on eve of MPs’ vote on restricting welfare payments for new claimants
The extra cost of being disabled is on course to rise by almost 12% to £14,688 in five years, according to a new estimate published on the eve of a controversial vote to restrict welfare payments for new claimants.
A threatened rebellion by more than 120 Labour MPs forced the government into a last-minute climbdown on its welfare bill, by exempting claimants to planned cuts in personal independence payments (Pip), England’s main disability payment.