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Cold calls about pensions are now illegal in some circumstances following a change in the law.

Unsolicited calls are the most common method for companies who operate pension scams to contact people and new legislation introduced by the government from 09 January 2019 aims to tackle this.

The NHS 10-year plan is a new plan for the NHS to improve the quality of patient care & health outcomes.

The NHS Long Term Plan  includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes & dementia cases, and better access to mental health services for adults and children.  It sets out how the £20.5bn budget settlement for the NHS, announced by the PM in summer 2018, will be spent over the next 5 years.

The plan focuses on building an NHS fit for the future by:

• enabling everyone to get the best start in life
• helping communities to live well
• helping people to age well

New legislation to upgrade workers’ rights has been introduced– including a day one statement of rights for all workers, setting out leave entitlements & pay.

The government has set out the biggest package of workplace reforms for over 20 years with ambitious reforms to ensure the UK leads the world in meeting the challenges of the changing world of work.  The announcement takes forward 51 of the 53 recommendations made by Matthew Taylor in his review of modern working practices, some of which we have gone further than the review.

The reforms set out in the Government’s Good Work Plan will cement the UK’s status as a world leader in workers’ rights now & well into the future and will be the first country in the world to address the opportunities & challenges of the gig economy and the changing world of work, and its impact on a modern economy.

A nearby galaxy is headed on a collision course with the Milky Way, scientists have warned, which could cause Earth’s solar system to be shunted out of its galaxy into the depths of space.

UK astrophysicists have led the STFC-funded research, which was published recently (04 January 2018), that predicts that one of the smaller satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way is going to collide with our galaxy in 2bn years’ time.

This collision is much sooner than the predicted impact between the Milky Way and another neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which scientists say will hit our galaxy in 8bn years.

• It was Parliament that legislated to hold a referendum that resulted in a majority voting for Brexit
• It was the Government that told us the vote would be ‘definitive’
• The Tories & Labour both promised to deliver Brexit in their manifestoes at the last General Election
• and it was Parliament that legislated for Article 50

The current state of affairs seems a far cry from her Lancaster House speech in January 2017, when the PM vowed that the UK would not have partial membership of the EU that ‘leaves us half-in, half-out’.