The adverts, part of a £225,000 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) campaign to detoxify universal credit appeared in the Metro newspaper and on its website, as well as on the Mail Online, in May and June.

In the adverts, it claimed people moved into work faster on universal credit than under the old system, however, the ASA said this could not be substantiated.

The ASA received 44 complaints about six newspaper adverts and a web page, one of the complainants was from Christian charity The Trussell Trust who objected to “misleading” claims.

Rev Paul Nicholson, founder of Christian campaign group Taxpayers Against Poverty has been campaigning against poverty for over forty years, he told Premier: “The adverts were very misleading and I can quite understand the way that the ASA has gone the way it has.

There are so many difficulties all tied up with local authorities and the DWP, it’s a complex scene and often massively oppressive, but I am absolutely delighted the ASA has come down so heavily on the DWP.”

The ASA said: “We considered that readers would understand the claim to mean that under UC the option to have rent paid directly to landlords was generally available without restriction to all claimants who wanted it.”

It banned four of the newspaper ads and the web page from appearing again in the form complained about, and said it had told the DWP to ensure…

Her senior dresser Angela Kelly, revealed in a book that Her Majesty made the change this year in response to changing societal attitudes.

At least one coat in her wardrobe has been altered, while any new outfits designed for the Queen will use fake fur instead.

Animal rights groups have applauded the move by the monarch with Humane Society International suggesting it sends a “powerful message” that fur’s out of fashion.

The news comes after a number of designer fashion brands including Gucci and Prada made similar announcements to go fur-free.

Samantha Chandler from Christian animal rights charity, Anglican Society for Welfare of Animals told Premier she welcomed the decision.

“We think it’s fantastic,” she said. “It was always a bit of a shame that our Queen, as head of the Church of England, continued to wear fur.”

“I think it’s definitely out of fashion now, people who wear fur are seen as not on trend, I don’t think young people as a general rule would be seen dead in fur coats.

Chandler went on to say that the decision speaks of Her Majesty’s character and investment in her country: “She is a very thoughtful and well-read woman. She certainly does keep an eye on what is going on in the media in the news, particularly public opinion of her subjects and her citizens.

“Perhaps it has caused her to question her choices and whether what she is doing is humane,…

In an interview with HBO news platform Axios, the 44-year-old said: “If you’re not living according to the teaching of the Bible, and you’re living in unrepentant sin, then you have to be put out of the church. I excommunicated myself, essentially.”

The author of the popular 1997 book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, said he came to realise that he gave bad advice in his book.

He said: “In an effort to set a high standard, the book emphasized practices (not dating, not kissing before marriage) and concepts … that are not in the Bible.

“I apologised for it. I unpublished the books. I pulled the books off the market. But you can’t give people [back], you know, years of their life. It was a long process for me. I started seeing that the book really had misled a lot of people.”

Harris, who left his role as lead pastor of a church in 2015 now spends his Sunday mornings doing yoga.

“I was a leader and a spokesman and I called people to live in very particular ways, to sacrifice in very particular ways,” he said.

“And so for me to change in my thinking feels like a betrayal to them.”

“I was really just trying to be honest about the fact that all the ways that I had defined faith and Christianity, that I was no longer choosing to live according to those.”

Stay up to date with the latest news stories from a Christian perspective. Sign up to our daily newsletter and receive…

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster,  was talking about the lessons he learned from attending a worldwide summit held for senior Roman Catholic bishops on tackling the global problem.

He told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) he attended the global conference in Rome in February, along with around 200 other delegates.

Cardinal Nichols said the church in this country had already implemented some of the measures discussed there.

Speaking about the Catholic Church in this country, the lead counsel for the inquiry Brian Altman QC asked: “Did you come away thinking first of all, we haven’t done enough?”

Cardinal Nichols said in some aspects, that was right, citing the example of a bishop from Puerto Rico who encouraged the topic of child safeguarding to be spoken about in every parish.

Cardinal Nichols said: “I think we should do more in the general life of our parishes to set the task of safeguarding in a more positive context.

“I think the experience in the Catholic community in this country over the last 20 years has been one of struggling to cope with the presence of evil embodied in its members, which has shocked it to the core.”

He added: “I think getting the task of safeguarding understood in an utterly positive way is something we still have to achieve.”

Mr Altman asked if the cardinal believed there was still much to improve in 2019, despite major inquiries held in 2001 and 2007.

The Archbishop of Westminster, aged…

According to witnesses, the 79-year-old man was holding a Bible and preaching during a train journey near Times Square in New York City on 24th October when a person shouted expletives at him and hit him on the head with a shoe.

Instagram user @f.u.n.m.i.k.e documented a small part of the incident and also captured the aftermath which included the man’s head bleeding and her trying to help him recover.

“What a world we live in that some people see preaching the word of God as a threat to their lives,” she wrote in an Instagram post.

“This old man right here was just singing some gospel songs and sharing the word of God to people on the train, he didn’t say anything to hurt anyone, he wasn’t even loud, you could barely hear him talk but this is what he got in return…”

She added that after passenger hit the man with a stiletto heel, his Bible was thrown away.

  

“I was just so mad and I felt I needed to do something to help him because he was bleeding too much,” she added.

“He’s just an old man. He doesn’t deserve this. Justice is needed.”

According to local TV new station Fox 5, the New York Police Department (NYPD) responded to a call about the assault and man was taken to New York University Hospital in a stable condition where he got 30 stitches.

Police have appealed for more information about the assault.

Stay up to date with the latest news stories from a…