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This time during the black history month, the life story of a slave named Nathaniel Wells who later took charge as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire will be the topic during the event. It will take place at the Civic Suite, North Warehouse, Gloucester Docks. Black History Month is an event that is celebrated in the UK, US and Canada in remembrance of great people and events in the history of... Read More»

North Lincolnshire Council has announced that the charges for parking in areas such as Scunthorpe, Ashby and Brigg will be relaxed from November 21 (Thursday) when this year’s Christmas lights will be switched on this day. The decision has been taken so that more people come in to the town for shopping. Charges will be relaxed in Scunthorpe, Ashby and Brigg after 4 pm on specific dates. Kindly make note of... Read More»

Nokia will be offering free subscriptions to Netflix, with the purchase of some models of Lumina Windows Phone, in the UK. According to reports, Vodafone the carrier and mobile phone retailer Phones4U have struck a deal with Nokia. The mobile phone maker is working out deals with some wireless carriers and retailers in UK to provide subscription to online film service of Netflix for free. A subscription could be... Read More»

Code.org has signed up Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft to teach programming through an hour of video conferencing for students in various schools. They will take part in an “Hour of Code” programme, part of the 2013's Computer Science Education Week (CSEW) scheduled to start from 9th December for a week. The “Hour of Code” will be a 60-minute programming tutorials. The programme is aimed... Read More»

New WiFi systems have been installed at ABM hospitals for patients to surf the internet for free. Wales is the first to get public WiFi service in its health board. The WiFi here is powered by The Cloud. The new service will be of great use to patients who can keep in touch with their family and friends even while at the hospital. Free WiFi facility will be available on personal... Read More»

A hot, healthy school lunch will be provided free to children in reception year 1 and year 2 during lunchtime. This radical measure by the Coalition government will save, over the course of a year, the average family some £400 per child, for school lunches. The scheme will be extended to to 6th form colleges and disadvantaged students who are in further education. Approximately 11,000 children in Lewisham will... Read More»

Parents of three and four year olds in Stirling will be able to take benefit of extra 125 hours of free child care from January 2014. Scottish government had earlier announced that with the inclusion of extra hours children between these ages will be able to get a total of 600 hours of free child care from August 2014. According to the council, extra hours will be extended to three and... Read More»

An initiative named as 'Bus, Your Second Car' is part of a campaign to push up passenger numbers and so ease the congestion and car traffic in Sheffield. Transport officials of Sheffield Bus Partnership will be giving out free tickets as pat of the initiative to encourage people to get off their car and broad the bus. Commuters can get all-day tickets at various locations to help people take a... Read More»

A free seminar will be held on November 14 for small businesses covering topics mainly on discrimination, dismissal and disciplinary procedures. Mid Suffolk Citizens Advice Bureau will conduct free seminar that will be held at the Mid Suffolk District Council Chamber in Needham Market from 2pm to 5pm. Free seminar will be conducted for small business concerns that do not have HR services. Such... Read More»

Brightside is a charity helping young people in education and career opportunities. In association with University Alliance and Teach First, they will be staging a free event for teachers, as also part of the HE Week celebrations. The event will be held on 14 October, between 6pm and 8pm, at The Wine Tun, 2-6 Cannon Street, London. The event will feature speeches from experts in IAG, including the Chief... Read More»

Royal Agricultural Society for England(RASE) and the National Sheep Association (NSA) will conduct one day free course on sheep farming for people aspiring to become farmers. The event will be hosted by a farmer named Tim White. Marie Prebble, a NSA South East Committee Member will be one among the speakers during the event who will share experiences in sheep farming business. The event will take place at Manor Farm, Sutton... Read More»

ROTHERHAM will host a free event to help older residents deal with various conditions such as independence, safety, health and loneliness. The event is scheduled to take place on 1st October at myplace Rotherham on St Ann's Road from 10am to 2pm. Organisations such as Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police, Fire and Rescue will give talks on various topics such as benefits advice, assistive technology, IT tasters and gentle exercise. Those... Read More»

West Lindsey District Council has invited residents to register for a number of free courses on the internet and on introduction to computing. The courses are being run on behalf of the council by Community Lincs. Thanks to the superfast broadband hotspots available in remote parts of Lindsey and connections installed in more than 30 village halls, by the council, the people can take all advantage of this facility and... Read More»

Labour recently announced that 25 hours of free child care a week will be provided to parents of three and four year olds if it wins 2015 general elections. According to the Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, bank levy will be raised by £800m a year to help raise the funds for the purpose. Current free child care service is being offered for 15 hours per week. Scotland, Wales and Northern... Read More»

Following the sudden closure of the Headstarts nursery in Newbury, a nursery manager has announced about the free childcare program that will be offered to the affected parents for the rest of September. Started in the year 1990, Headstarts nursery has centres at Basingstoke and Swindon. Due to the sudden closure, Complete Childcare has come forward to help all those parents by announcing about the free child... Read More»

The Pool Academy, a secondary school in Cornwall, has handed over to each pupil here a hi-tech device - the iPad, for free. Around 1,000 students at this school are now happy owners of their own iPads, which can be used both in the classroom and at home. The classrooms too have been equipped with the new technology to enable the children to use the hi-tech equipment throughout the... Read More»

The Boulevard Academy is the first free school in Hull. It has been built on the site of the former rugby league ground of Hull FC at a cost of £8 millions. The school has opened its doors and the first 43 students admitted for classes. The school is independent of control from the local authorities and directly central government funded. The free school... Read More»

Farmers in Northern Ireland are being encouraged to take advantage of a pest control scheme being run by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Ulster Farmers Union (UFU). Ian Marshall, Deputy President of UFU, is encouraging farmers to get in touch with people who shoot. This he pointed out, can help reduce the damage that pests cause to farmers' produce. The pest control operation is free... Read More»

The government has announced that free childcare is being extended to 260,000 children from low income families under new plans. The Leader of Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said that the government wanted to extend and widen the free support to all 2-year-olds' parents who are receiving certain benefits, despite having “limited resources”. Thereby the number of 2-year-olds entitled to free childcare will double next year,... Read More»

Customers joining Sky TV or upgrading to Sky Movies get one month free trial pack of the Sky Movies. The free trial will offer you popular movies more than 12 months before it is available on any online subscription service. You can also enjoy your favourite programmes across 11 dedicated channels apart from Sky Movies Disney which is a family channel. This offer is available to all new and existing customers... Read More»