Ashton-under-lyne, England News

Anti-poverty minister Huw Lewis said Whitehall was not releasing key information about who will be eligible for benefits under universal credit.

The front page on universal credit called Ashton-under-Lyne a "sleepy market town" and so one would be forgiven for thinking that Ashton is somehow not representative of the country as a whole or of the challenges faced by working people.

A man has been jailed for life for beating a two-year-old girl to death while her mother was in New York celebrating her 21st birthday.

Landlords who rent to tenants receiving housing benefit under universal credit will now see the payments be transferred directly to them under a change outlined by the Department for Work and Pensions .

As ministers launch their universal credit scheme in Ashton-under-Lyne we should expect the town to be flooded with experts - from the government and outsourcing cowboys - determined to prove that this odious experiment will be a success.

Housing benefit payments will be sent directly to landlords after tenants have gone into two months of arrears during the Universal Credit pathfinders.

What with One Man, Two Guvnors three months back, it's already been a great year for laughs at the Theatre Royal.

A COUPLE were found dead in a swimming pool at a plush country hotel where reality TV star Jade Goody got married.

Mr Duncan Smith is wrong to pretend that he has a unique formula for ironing out all the oddities of social security If you have heard anything about universal credit, you have probably heard it's a Big Deal.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi has survived a car bomb attack in the capital.

As the coalition government took its first step in implementing the controversial Universal Credit welfare system in Ashton-under-Lyne, followed by Oldham, Warrington and Wigan in Greater Manchester in July, the topic of who will lose out from the overhaul has reared its ugly head again.

THREE British men found guilty of possession of drugs in Dubai have each been sentenced to four years in prison, according to reports.

Universal Credit will be introduced at four local job centres in selected areas of Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham, Warrington and Wigan The Government will face a protest as it launches a new benefit as part of a "fundamental cultural shift" of the welfare system.

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A school treasurer who stole nearly 56,000 in taxpayers' cash because she felt 'undervalued' by education bosses has been spared jail.

The first trial of universal credit - a new payment that marks the biggest overhaul of the benefits system since the 1940s - is being launched on Monday.

In prison conversations and phone calls from segregation at Strangeways Jail in Manchester Cregan, 29, is alleged to have "confessed and apologised" after being accused of four murders.

A BACUP man has told of his surprise after discovering he is related to England's World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst.

The mother of police killer Dale Cregan has told a court he admitted a murder to her but she did not believe him.

'My little princess banged her head at McDonald's': Boyfriend 'took to Facebook to construct alibi after beating partner's 23-month old daughter to death' Sarah Archer, 21, left her boyfriend to look after her child while she went to New York to celebrate her birthday A 23-month-old girl was beaten to death by her mother's boyfriend who then took ... (more)