Hethertons is calling on keen photographers to send in their snaps for the firm’s charity bag campaign, which is raising money for Zoë’s Place.

Over the last few months, Hethertons has handed out more than 500 “bags for life” from its offices in York and Boroughbridge.

An attempt earlier this month to raise the legal age for marriage and civil partnerships has been blocked by the House of Lords.

The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age Bill) had been introduced in the Upper House by Baroness Tonge, a former Liberal Democrat MP turned Peer.

A rising number of pensioners are having to pay more for care home places to subsidise the lower fees covered by council, a charity has claimed.

New figures have revealed that 41 per cent of those receiving residential care now fund it themselves. This compares with 29 per cent ten years ago.

Thousands of female workers at one of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have won the first stage of a landmark equal pay claim.

An Employment Tribunal has ruled that the women working on the check-outs and stacking shelves are performing comparable duties to male colleagues, who earn higher salaries for roles in the retailer’s warehouses.

A couple embroiled in a long-running legal battle which centres on ownership of a hedge have said they are prepared to serve time in prison.

Steve and Sandra Marshall, of Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, had been caught up in a row four years ago after they found a middle section of the vegetation had been cut out.