One in five young people are jobless in Blackpool
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Blackpool has emerged as the homeschooling capital of the country, where one in five young people are without work. Home education in the area is seen as a potential downward spiral toward benefits dependence.
The Home Secretary is set to announce an overhaul of immigration rules that may require legal migrants to wait a decade for settlement rights. Elsewhere, the government has a price for admission to a European industrial programme: a #450 million annual offer to support EU students.
Police may require the King’s approval to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s visits to Balmoral, while leaseholders in one block of flats are without heating or hot water thanks to a mystery #600,000 bill. Separately, five teenagers were stabbed at a Halloween party.