Interest rate held for sixth consecutive month - but edges closer to cut soon
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Bank of England has edged closer to a cut in interest rates, with another member of its nine-person Monetary Policy Committee…
Rishi Sunak faces election blow as 900,000 voters brace for ‘mortgage nightmare’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rishi Sunak faces a “reckoning” at the polls as 900,000 homeowners brace for mortgage rises before a possible November general election. Read…
Kids so hungry they're 'eating rubbers or hiding empty lunchboxes' due to lack of free school meals
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Children are so hungry they are eating rubbers or pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes because they don’t qualify for free school…
Nine new tenants registered for each rental home in March, says report
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In March, there were nearly ‘nine new tenants registered for each available rental home’, as demand continues to surpass the supply, according…
Four new cost of living payments to be paid in June and July to struggling households
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Some households in the UK are set to receive up to four new cost of living payments in a bid to alleviate…
Lagos sate govt discovers ‘86 rooms’ under bridge where tenants paid N250,000 a year as rent
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Lagos state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, says the state government has uncovered 86 partitioned rooms, sized 10×10…
Migrants hit by high fees to send money home
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Jerry Lukendo Mbokani has to make several calculations when he sends money to his elderly mother in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is how much it costs to raise a child in 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The cost of raising children has soared over the course of the past decade, leaving many parents struggling to make ends meet. …
‘You can’t send them to their room’: the tensions and challenges of parenting adult children
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Husband and wife Jock*, 57, and Bree*, 61, were empty-nesters for about two years before agreeing to their two sons, aged 27…
Shoplifting offences rise to highest level since records began: Store thefts jump by more than a THIRD compared to 2022 - with 430,104 offences recorded in last 12 months, figures show
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Shoplifting has risen to the highest level on record amid complaints the crime has been effectively ‘decriminalised’, new data revealed today. Read More