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The UK has lost its measles-free status and about 90,000 children are missing one or both doses of MMR - and the Conservative plan to reverse that means reminder texts for parents from Mirror - News https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-vaccination-reminders-plan-boost-20968409 via Wigan Aerial Engineers

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Corbyn's party have announced plans to set up clinics and specialist health checks to help retired miners whose lungs were choked up from coal dust from Mirror - News https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/sick-miners-left-crying-pain-20968354 via Wigan Aerial Engineers

The 2019 General Election takes place on December 12 and will see the likes of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn battle it out to become the next prime minister from Mirror - News https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/general-election-2019-can-still-20968620 via Wigan Aerial Engineers

Thinktank Resolution Foundation predicts social crisis will worsen if Boris Johnson wins general election Child poverty is at risk of rising to a record 60-year high under a Conservative government because its manifesto retains the coalition’s benefit cuts, according to the Resolution Foundation thinktank. An analysis by the organisation predicted a rise in the number of children living in relative poverty under a Boris Johnson-led government to 34.5% in 2023-24 up from 29.6% in 2017-18. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/26/fears-child-poverty-may-rise-to-record-60-year-high-under-conservatives via TV In Wigan

Consumer group Which? finds most items have same or lower prices at other times of year Just one in 20 Black Friday deals are genuine, according to damning research by Which? that concluded the annual shopping event was “all hype”. The consumer group price checked 83 items on sale on Black Friday last year and found that nearly all were cheaper or available for the same price at other times of the year. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/26/black-friday-uk-discounts-genuine-which via TV In Wigan

Mark Drakeford says in event of fresh referendum Labour in Wales will fight for remain The leader of Welsh Labour has backed Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to remain neutral in any fresh referendum campaign even though the party in Wales has pledged to fight for remain. As both Labour and the Conservatives launched their manifestos in and around Wrexham, a key election battleground, the Welsh Labour leader, Mark Drakeford, said Corbyn’s stance could help heal a divided UK. Continue reading... from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/25/welsh-labour-leader-mark-drakeford-backs-jeremy-corbyns-neutral-brexit-stance via TV In Wigan

Bridge theatre, London Aslan is more substitute Churchill than surrogate Christ in Sally Cookson’s brilliantly inventive production of CS Lewis’s wartime fable The popularity of CS Lewis’s 1950 novel rests on the fact that it has the many-sidedness of myth. The story of four children who stumble into the kingdom of Narnia, where it has been winter for a century, can be seen in multiple ways. In Sally Cookson’s brilliantly inventive production – first seen at Leeds Playhouse two years ago – it becomes about a family of evacuees confronting the perils of wartime. The point is made from the start, with the audience handed green identity labels, the onstage musicians playing a 1940s medley and a model train, bearing the evacuated Pevensie family, snaking its way through the countryside. But the wartime theme doesn’t stop there. The animals in Narnia sport camouflage gear, communicate through code – “Foxtrot to Badger” – and Aslan is not just a heroic lion but, in Wil Johnson’s fine per...