Inheritance in America: Rights v. Slights

Rights of inheritance, the tradition of designating heirs to receive property or other assets upon one’s death, are a long-standing American institution currently under assault.  The term “dying wish” would not be ingrained into our culture were it not a...

Find a job or lose your council house, Labour tells out of work tenants

With very little Council owned social housing remaining only the very poorest homeless families with children qualify..."People living in social housing should be expected to hunt for work as a condition of their tenancy, the new housing minister will propose today.Caroline...

Crofters Legal Vow On Wind Farm

"Crofters have vowed to take legal action in their fight against a 176-turbine wind farm on Isle of Lewis. The wind farm has been proposed for BARVAS MOOR on Lewis.. Crofters said they had notified the...

Prison Break: No Criminal Genius Required

"A CONVICTED killer has gone on the run from HMP Castle Huntly three months after being transferred to the open prison. Tayside Police confirmed George McKay, 55, absconded from the prison, near Dundee, on 10 May. He is one of three inmates reported to have gone on the run...

Staten Island Ferry damage claims now uncappable

This is very good news for families and current victims of the horrible crash; shame on the city for trying to implement an age-old rule with little current applicability. "A federal judge today rejected New York...

French police face Muslim 'intifada"

"Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada," or uprising, against the police, with violent clashes injuring about 14 officers each day.     As the Interior...

The Most Expensive Home in the World

The Most Expensive Home in the World, it goes for 122.2 millions

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