Until now these places have operated with low-tax regimes so many companies used them as a way to avoid paying tax.

According to him many things have to change as theUKis about to push tighter tax measures in June.

“With one month to go, this is the crucial moment to get our own houses in order,” Mr. Cameron wrote in the letter.

“I respect your right to be lower tax jurisdictions… but lower taxes are only sustainable if what is owed is actually paid.”

The 10 territories that received the letter are Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Anguilla, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Jersey,Guernseyand the Isle of Man.

TheUKgovernment described most of them as having “complex tax arrangements”.

Tax avoiding schemes are possible because of the lack of transparency in the banking systems of these territories.

In the letters Mr. Cameron mentioned that after signing international protocols, tax information will be shared more easily between countries.

In the recent months the number of companies that try to avoid paying taxes and in most of the cases succeed have significantly risen.

TheUKcriticized some big and well-known companies like Google, Amazon and Starbucks on the low levels of tax they pay.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google tried to defend the company saying that the search engine giant “has always aspired to do the right thing”, but added that “international tax law could almost certainly benefit from reform”.

The aim of the “Frontline” scheme is to attract as many graduates as possible into the profession. The Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that the government gave funding for the first 100 trainees.

According to the British Association of Social Workers the time would not be enough so that the graduates learned everything needed.

The government hopes that performance of social workers will improve and there would not be any similar cases to that of Victoria Climbie and baby Peter Connelly when social workers did not manage to recognize the signs of abuse.

The beginning of this scheme will be put in 2014 inLondonandManchester.

Students will pass a five-week residential summer school at a leading university and when it finishes they will directly start working in a local authority for the next two years.

In the end of the first year they will become qualified social workers and will be given the chance to do a masters degree in the second year.

There will not be any difference between the salaries of the trainees and the qualified social workers after their first year.

The Frontline scheme aims to “bring the best people into one ofBritain’s toughest jobs”, said Mr. MacAlister.

In the words of Cllr Dora Dixon Fyle of London Borough of Southwark it was high time things changed for better.

One of the people who opposed to the idea was Harry Ferguson, professor of social work atNottinghamUniversity. He insisted that the current social workers were competent enough as they had much much time in university to develop their skills and knowledge.

Another part of the announced reforms is the appointment of Isabelle Trowler forEngland’s first Chief Social Worker.

Mr Gove said: “Good social workers literally save lives; the bad can leave them in ruins. I am delighted that Isabelle Trowler has agreed to lead our reform programme; to challenge as well as to champion the profession so that vulnerable children and families are better protected.”

Ten families are now standing before the High Court to challenge this move.

According to them the proposed changes will discriminate them because they in fact need more space due to their disability.

Since April about 660,000 social housing households were told their lodgings were too big and lost an average of £14 per week.

A three-day hearing is about to take place soon, on which hearing the disabled and their families will challenge the changes.

MartinWestgateQC, appearing for the families, told the judges: “Each of the claimants has a need, because of disability, to occupy accommodation larger than that which would be allowed to them under the size criteria.”

The housing benefits of Richard Rourke were cut by 25% because of the two spare rooms, no matter that he is a widower, uses a wheelchair and has disabled daughter who lives in one of the rooms when returning home from university. The other extra room was used a storage for essential equipment.

In the words of the lawyers these cuts were a kind of discrimination that violated the Human Rights Act and Equality Act. They shared that the £25m which the government had promised to give to disabled people, in fact came from these cuts.

Welfare Minister Lord Freud said the government was “keeping a very close eye” on the housing benefit change.

A spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions, which is responsible for the changes, commented there were “two million households on the social housing waiting list and over a quarter of a million tenants… living in overcrowded homes”.

They launched a petition calling for the introduction of theUK’s Equality Act 2010 saying they could not believe there was no legislation which could prevent them from being discriminated.

About a thousand people supported the online campaign.

Chief Minister of theIsle of Man, Allan Bell said:

“I do believe that our society today is generally much more tolerant than it used to be. But this incident shows that there are still isolated pockets of bigotry that can only be tackled through legislation.

He mentioned that such act was already in the drafting process and would as soon as possible start functioning.

Ms Izzard and Ms Cull found with surprise that the landlord who had refused to sign a rental agreement with them had in fact acted within the law.

The victims Ms Cull and Kira both took the decision to inform as many people as they could and together with them try to change the current situation.

Rob McDowall, who chairs the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender network (LGBT), wrote to each of the politicians on the island informing them of his concerns.

Phil Gawne answered: “I am shocked to note that our legislation allows such things to happen here and will do what I can to work with colleagues to ensure that such discrimination cannot take place in the future.”

Brenda Cannel commented she hoped the government would do everything needed so that this legislation started functioning sooner.

This plan was revealed two days after the resignation of the Co-operative Banking Group’s chief executive. Christina Blacklaws, director of Co-operative Legal Services, announced at the Law Society’s annual presidents and secretaries conference that the Co-op had prepared some new services intended to fill the gaps left by legal aid cuts.

Among them are:

- ‘A full range’ of unbundled services for people who do not have the possibility to hire a lawyer.

- ‘A raft’ of free online advice offerings, and ‘how-to’ guides which people could watch on YouTube.

According to Blacklaws the new reforms in legal aid would restrain from getting a lawyer about 200,000 people a year.

‘There is a serious question of whether they will be able to afford any legal advice in the future. At the Co-op we want to be part of the solution to that.’

While answering different questions, Blacklaws mentioned the plans of the Co-op to establish a ‘learning academy’ in September.

She explained the aim of this academy would be to help people with straitened means to get conventional higher education to be trained and developed.

The overall strategy of the Co-operative Group is still not certain as it announced that it was about to review all parts of its business.  Last year Co-operative Legal Services generated a pre-tax profit of £26,000 on a turnover of £33m.

According to many critics offenders will be “trapped in the criminal justice system”, and as the results are not pretty clear the system was called “untried and untested”.

In the words of Chris Grayling these plans had to reduce crime rate.

In an interview on BBC he said: “The biggest block of those that reoffend are those that are in prison for less than a year… they leave with only £46 in their pocket and that’s it.”

Currently, people whose sentences are shorter than 12 months are not supervised, while those with longer sentences are monitored by the Probation Service.

For the future many private companies and charities would have to help about 50,000 more offenders find accommodation and a job.

The most serious criminals will continue being supervised by the Probation Service and there is going to be a competition for the other supervision.

Sue Hall, chair of the Probation Chiefs association, questioned the plans, saying: “Payment by results is untried and untested in the community at the moment, where the supervision of offenders is concerned… we don’t actually have any hard evidence.”

Another man who criticized the reforms was Andrew Neilson. In his opinion because of these moves the situation would become even worse than now. People with short sentences of about 2 weeks would have to spend about a year and two weeks trapped in the criminal justice system. He added that this would definitely not make them better people.

Next year British forces will withdraw fromAfghanistanbut they have said they would not help interpreters who have worked with them to settle in theUK. The curious thing here is that they did it for those who performed similar roles inIraq. These were offered asylum in theUK, or a financial assistance package.

The lawyers of the three Afghan men claim their clients had to be given the same offer.

According to David Cameron, people who assisted British forces had better stay inAfghanistanand help to rebuild it once the forces have left. In addition, he announced that the government made them “really generous” proposals aiming to convince them stay in their country.

On the other hand, the interpreters shared they were afraid about themselves and their families as Talibans would most probably try to take revenge for what had happened.

“Those people, who worked with any foreign army in Afghanistan– they’ll lose their life if the Taliban would catch them,” said one interpreter, Rafi Karimi. “The UK can’t do anything in here for us. They can’t make a checkpoint by our house or give us bodyguards. It is impossible to save the lives of interpreters here inAfghanistan.”

They added they did not need much money, as it would not help them stay alive. The only way they could survive is moving to another country.

According to the quarterly Business Confidence Monitor, confidence is now at its highest level since 2010. Among the forecasts of this monitor is the view that in the second quarter economic will grow faster.

The expected economy growth for the first three months of the year is 0.3%.

Business advisory firm Grant Thornton said that due to the improved business confidence, economy will also be influenced in a good way.

Michael Izza, chief executive of ICAEW said:

“There is a gradual improvement in the economy and the recovery is starting to stand on more solid ground”.

However, he mentioned that not everything was certain yet as events outside theUKcould also influence the situation.

The survey showed that confidence in all the parts of the country and in all sectors had been improved. On the other hand, the survey indicated that the future plans for growth in business investment were still not as strong as they had to be.

Because of the fall in real-term earnings during the last year, consumer spending is still under pressure. Prices rise every day and wages remain the same.

Later this week the government will hold talks with an IMF delegation.

These talks are part of the IMF’s annual review of the UK economy. The participants in these meetings will be the Treasury, the Bank of England, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and independent economists.

As a way to boost growth in short terms the Chancellor has announced an expansion of the Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS).

The new figures were shown in the Annual Report from the Office of the Head of International Family Justice forEnglandandWales.

Lord Justice Thorpe, the Head of the International Family Justice, works in family law cases not only in theUKbut also in other countries. An example of the cases he is interested in are cases of abduction and taking a child abroad without the permission of one of the parents.

The report came with the information that the types of case referred to the Head of International Family Justice are becoming more and more, as forced marriage and inter-country adoption, are among the most commonly encountered.

The data show that 14 of the cases referred in 2012 were related toPoland,PakistanandSpainhave almost equal number respectively 13 and 12.

According to Lord Justice Thorpe there are two main factors for the increase in such cases:

“The first is the ever increasing number of international family cases coming before the courts, necessitating assistance from an overseas judge or vice versa,” and “The second is the increasing awareness amongst judges and practitioners throughout the world of the service that the Office provides and the benefits it can bring.”

He also mentioned that the number of international family cases was most probably that big because of the globalisation.