Family Of Dutch Inventor Sue Facebook Over the Like Button. As everybody knows Mark Zuckerberg has invented Facebook.
Facebook is being sued over claims its ‘like’ button infringes technology patented by a Dutch computer programmer 15 years ago.
Elderly Care Bills To Be Capped At £75,000. It has been announced today that elderly care bills are to be capped by the state in a £1bn move expected to be funded by dragging more people into inheritance tax.
But the assets threshold beneath which people will receive means-tested support is to be hiked significantly – up from £23,250 to £123,000.
David Cameron Makes A Visit To Libya Regarding Lockerbie Bombing. The PM uses his visit to reveal British police investigating the Lockerbie bombing will travel to Libya for the first time.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, said Britain was ready to provide training and advice amid growing concern about the security situation in the region.
David Cameron Promises In-Out EU Referendum. By the end of 2017, britons will be able to vote to leave the European Union if the Conservatives win the next general election.
In one of the defining speeches of his premiership, he declared: “It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time to settle this European question in British politics.”
Ed Miliband Time To Move On From New Labour. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did not do enough to rein in the rich and powerful, Ed Miliband concedes, as he urges his party to “move on” from New Labour.
Mr Miliband will praise the achievements of New Labour’s 13 years in power, especially the investment in schools and hospitals that gave “millions” of people “better lives”.
David Cameron Announces Today Cuts To Child Benefit. The Prime Minister says the change to child benefit – which will see families with an earner on more than £50,000 lose out – is the “right approach”.
He says that introducing these changes will raise £2billion a year, he added. If we don’t manage to raise the funds the money would have to be financed from another area so and now the group of people would be worse off
The Work and Pensions Secretary condemned the “madness” of the state subsidising poor families with lots of children.
Most families make decisions about the number of children linked to what they can afford.
During the academic year, grades were changed halfway throw which annoyed lots of students because they haven’t got a grade they were expecting. Lots of schools and colleges are upset about this decision that Ofqual has took to grade students down.
Many students have not received the grade that they were expecting due to the change within off calls decision to change the boundary of grading GCSE exams.
“That’s not something that this Government, this Coalition, will be doing,” he said.
“It’s important to make the right decision about this and study all the options.
Nick Clegg said that the Tories had “broken the contract” between the coalition partners, even though his party had consistently delivered on its side of the deal.
He told a news conference in London: “The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to the Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken.