A cut to pensioners’ winter fuel payments risks saving hundreds of millions of dollars less than expected, in a fresh blow to attempts to cut the deficit in the UK’s finances, Rachel Reeves has been warned. The Chancellor and Treasury team are already re-examining parts of the plan to crack down on non-dom tax status… Read More »
There’s a popular meme, taken from an old headline on the satirical news site Clickhole: “Heartbreaking: the worst person you know has made a very important point.” People tend to post a picture of the poor stock model they’re using to illustrate the title or track when someone known to be generally at odds with… Read More »
Sir Keir Starmer has launched a battle against accusations that his government is mired in “immorality, cronyism and greed” by announcing the rules on declaring donations and gifts will be changed. The prime minister and a number of cabinet ministers have been criticized for accepting thousands of pounds worth of freebies from corporate sponsors and… Read More »
Machinery theft is a frustrating fact of life for many farmers in our region. But those who provide food to our tables face a sinister new threat. Organized crime gangs, who stole tractors, diggers, other facilities and Global Positioning Systems, now turned to killing cattle in the fields and selling their meat. A rise in… Read More »
Nearly 1,000 British holidaymakers are taking legal action after contracting a stomach bug while staying at luxury hotels in Cape Verde. A staggering 926 people over the past three years have said they became seriously ill after visiting the island during what were supposed to be dream trips. Many were hospitalized with their symptoms after… Read More »
The most expensive supermarket for essentials since May is now the third cheapest supermarket behind Aldi and Lidl after cutting the cost of essentials by 15% since last week. In our comparison of essential groceries, which looked at the cost of the same eight grocery stores since March 2022, Tesco was the most expensive for… Read More »
Cabinet ministers are demanding a swift reshuffle of Keir Starmer’s Downing Street operation, which they say has failed to spot obvious political banana peels, suffered weeks of post-election infighting and failed to present a sufficiently positive narrative of Labour’s mission in government. . Some senior figures in Starmer’s team want the prime minister to appoint… Read More »
Hundreds of Albanians crossing the Channel in small boats helped drug gangs take over Britain’s cannabis market. They are recruited as workers on illegal cannabis “farms” set up in rented homes or disused industrial buildings to produce crops worth up to £2 million at a time and which can be grown and harvested in as… Read More »
It was like the heart-warming story of a young Briton who went missing and was found in France for years after his grandmother’s death. A campaign was launched in the French media in 2011, along with a Facebook page called “Looking for Dominic”, to find Dominic Dickson, as his family wanted to give him the… Read More »
A Labor MP has quit the party over the freebies scandal, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of presiding over “sleaze, cronyism and blatant greed”. Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield resigned from her post and told Sir Keir she was “ashamed” of what he and his “inner circle” had done to “tarnish and humiliate our once proud party”.… Read More »