State pensioners handed boosted £247.30 per week payment
Pensions minister Pat McFadden has now confirmed the new rates of increase for various DWP benefits
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Pensions minister Pat McFadden has now confirmed the new rates of increase for various DWP benefits
The Prime Minister has urged businesses to act before the new law takes effect.
A sharp fall in US technology shares has spread to London’s stock market. Fears over the artificial intelligence boom have sparked heavy selling, hitting some of the world’s biggest companies.The FTSE 100 fell 1.6 per cent on Friday morning, taking…
The average property price in October was £1,882 lower than it was in September, Lloyds’ analysis shows.
House hunters could find their budget stretches much further just by looking in a different town. A new comparison has revealed where property prices are most within reach of local earners.Homes in 36 British towns were valued at less than…
British Airways owner IAG has taken a hit to its profit due to “very high” jet fuel prices, which industry bosses have warned could force some airlines into collapse next year. The London-listed firm, which also owns airlines Vueling and…
Andy Burnham risks igniting a Cabinet rift over EU migration as the Prime Minister was left “irritated” by John Healey’s comments over possibly rejoining the bloc. The Prime Minister is prepared to throw Britain’s borders open to the EU to…
Andy Burnham has called on businesses to publish salaries in job adverts rather than wait for a new law to take effect which will mandate them to do so. The government said it is planning to bring forward legislation to…
House prices suffered their biggest fall in more than three years in October, with buyers’ confidence now in danger of slumping lower after Thursday’s interest rate hike. The average house price in the UK fell by 1.2 per cent to…
Tottenham Hotspur have pledged to help tackle the spiralling Neets crisis with a flurry of measures that include a university campus at their north London stadium. In a move that Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden has called “further evidence…
They stop near a parked lorry and hand its Romanian driver the plastic bag. All are about to go their separate ways when officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) swoop.
Russell Brand is getting ready to spend his second night in London’s notorious HMP Wandsworth after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault. The 51-year-old disgraced comedian was driven from Southwark Crown Court in the back of an armoured…
A six-year-old boy has become the fifth member of his family to perish following a suspected arson attack in County Waterford.Eliott English passed away today at Children's Health Ireland hospital in Crumlin, Dublin, after sustaining critical injuries during the incident…
PCSO Alice Dobson passed confidential information to a crime suspect linked to a machete attack.
Dino Donaldson has been sentenced to life.
The Government has temporarily blocked a historic £500,000 sculpture of Edward the Black Prince from leaving Britain.
Terry Dearsley, 32, was found with a gunshot wound inside a parked car in Frances Street, Woolwich, after police were called to reports of shots being fired at 8.09pm on Thursday, October 22.
Dorothy Byrne, who was head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 for 15 years, said the disparity in power between talent and staff meant someone like Brand could strike again.