Customers of the electrical goods retailer Comet, which is in administration, can use gift cards at its stores after all. The company was criticised after the mother of a child with cerebral palsy was told a gift card supplied by the charity the Family Fund was not acceptable.
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A report from the gender equality charity the Fawcett Society has warned that women’s pay and career prospects are going into reverse because of the government’s austerity measures.
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A £55 no-frills mobile phone for older people, with just eight pre-programmed numbers for friends and family, has been launched by the charity Age UK in time for Christmas.
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Some overseas aid programmes are being slowed in the first sign that the government might be bowing to Conservative backbench pressure for cuts, a leading tropical disease expert has warned.
