{"id":175119,"date":"2025-06-11T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175119\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:00:19","slug":"headlines-hms-bristol-to-be-scrapped-and-atheist-employment-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175119\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines: HMS Bristol to be scrapped and atheist employment row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HMS Bristol, a Royal Navy destroyer which took part in the Falklands War, is set to leave its home in Portsmouth and head to Turkey where she will be scrapped, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portsmouth.co.uk\/news\/defence\/royal-navy-hms-bristol-falklands-scrapped-5167394\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portsmouth News, external<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Falklands veteran that served on the ship told the website he plans to be there &#8220;for the start of her last journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The story of an accountant working for the Clifton Catholic diocese who successfully sued the body for discrimination due to the fact she is an atheist features in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14793745\/Church-accountant-sacked-Catholic-diocese-witch-hunt-atheist-wins-60k-payout.html\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail, external<\/a> and a number of other outlets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Janet Parker was sacked following a dispute arising for a request for carer&#8217;s leave for her newly adopted daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bridgwater branch of Natwest is set to close this year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk\/news\/25224830.natwest-confirms-closure-bridgwater-branch-2025\/?\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridgwater Mercury, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bridgwater&#8217;s MP, Sir Ashley Fox has voiced his disappointment and is urging the bank to consider alternative forms of face-to-face services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A disabled woman heckled Bristol North West MP and chief secretary to the treasury Darren Jones over planned cuts to Personal Independent Payments (PIP)  at a surgery event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/uk\/news\/2025\/06\/09\/dwp-pip-cuts-darren-jones\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Canary, external<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old woman held a banner reading: &#8220;PIP: Lifeline not pocket money&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HMS Bristol, a Royal Navy destroyer which took part in the Falklands War, is set to leave its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114663681671934886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}