Free prescriptions and legal aid to end for benefit claimants not seeking work
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Free prescriptions and legal aid will be cut off for benefit claimants who are deemed fit to work and do not seek…
Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats
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Reading Time: < 1 minute When Masuma Akhtar arrived at the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting…
Food prices remain high despite falling inflation
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Families are paying almost double for key food items compared to two years ago as soaring inflation sends prices skyrocketing. Read More
A shirt for rice: bartering to survive in inflation-battered Argentina
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An old T-shirt for a handful of rice or some eggs: ever more Argentines are relying on barter to survive in a…
London's downsizing problem: a third of London Boomers have bigger homes than they need but nowhere to move
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Reading Time: < 1 minute While millennials and Gen-Z struggle with rising rents or – if they’re lucky – mortgage rates, new data reveals that older Londoners…
Millions of UK households forced to unplug fridge to cope with rising bills
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Reading Time: < 1 minute About 2m UK households have been forced to turn off their fridge or freezer to save money as they continue to struggle…
Baby formula companies 'manipulating prices' for vulnerable UK families, WHO says
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Health Organisation has joined calls to take action over the price escalation of baby formula. Read More
The Bank of Mum and Dad dishes out £98 BILLION in five years... more than a small nation's income
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Bank of Mum and Dad has handed out an eyewatering £98 billion over the past five years – more than the…
Parents face £1,000 a year in ‘hidden’ childcare costs, figures show
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Jeremy Hunt is under pressure to boost childcare funding in the Autumn Statement after new figures revealed parents risk having to pay an extra £1,000 a…
London Underground to be hit with 6 more months of industrial action
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Reading Time: < 1 minute London Underground workers have voted to continue taking industrial action for another six months in a long-running dispute over jobs, pensions and…