Wage disparity between the UK’s top earners and the rest of the working population will soon return to the levels of the Victorian era unless action is taken to curb executive pay, a new report by the high pay commission claims.
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Highlighting potentially fatal rare disease – HPP
Norwich mum tells of heartbreak at toddler’s rare condition
Kate Scotter Monday, May 16, 2011
6:30 AM
A Norwich mum has spoken of her heartache after discovering her son had a potentially fatal rare syndrome – and that she carried its genes.
Two-year-old Preston Quinton looks like a happy little toddler with his curly brown hair and toothless smile. But he has already had to undergo two major head operations and doctors currently do not know if he will be able to run, walk or jump later in life.
Pay gap widening to Victorian levels
Pay gap widening to Victorian levels
High pay commission forecasts top earners’ slice of national income will rise from current 5% to 14% by 2030
Victorian poverty. Is the pay gap taking us back there? Photograph: Stapleton Collection/CORBIS
Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders
Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders
Mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should be banned from schools, a powerful European body has ruled.
Mobile phones and wireless networks should be banned in school, a European body has ruled. Photo: REX FEATURES
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 9:30PM BST 14 May 2011
A Council of Europe committee examined evidence that the technologies have “potentially harmful” effects on humans, and concluded that immediate action was required to protect children.
