Estimated 45m people will struggle to pay energy bills this winter with predicted rises in price cap Two-thirds of all UK households will be trapped in fuel poverty by January with planned government support leaving even middle-income households struggling to pay their bills, according to research. It shows 18 million […]
Year: 2022
Soaring cost of living is forcing up government spending on benefits, pensions and debt leaving no spare cash to lower taxes Britain’s first double-digit inflation in more than four decades has cast doubts on the plausibility of the tax cuts being promised by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak during their […]
Network Rail, several train firms, London Underground and London buses to be hit by latest action Commuters and other travellers are facing further disruption over three days from Thursday on rail, tube and bus services, as tens of thousands of workers begin the latest round of strike action. Network Rail, […]
Amber warning issued for London with risk of transport disruption and power cuts Thunderstorms and flash floods have hit parts of southern England, amid warnings that the unsettled weather is expected to continue into the weekend. There were torrential downpours in London, with the rain spreading across the south-east until […]
On eve of results day admissions teams report surge in interest from students looking for places via clearing Tens of thousands of students who will pick up their A-level results on Thursday face a last-minute scramble to secure places at UK universities, many of which have warned that competition will […]
Exclusive: Tory leadership frontrunner suggested Britons lacked ‘skill and application’, in echo of ‘idlers’ row Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal. In […]
Ministers accepted urgency of need of those infected in 1970s and 1980s, who are dying at the rate of one every four days ‘My family was destroyed’: relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, […]
The vice-chair of the House January 6 panel faced retribution from state voters for going against the former president Liz Cheney has paid the price for her staunch opposition to Donald Trump’s assault on US democracy by losing her seat in Congress to a challenger backed by the former president. […]
Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents […]
Train driver was in process of reversing train out of danger when panicked passengers broke the windows to escape As many as 20 passengers have suffered burns, three of them seriously, after they jumped from a train when it was engulfed by a forest fire near Castellón in north-east Spain. […]