UK ranks worst among some of world’s richest countries on child poverty – Unicef
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Child poverty levels in the UK have risen by a fifth in recent years, according to Unicef, ranking worst among some of…
Britain only rich nation where food prices are rising by more than 10pc
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Britain is the only rich economy where food prices are still rising by more than 10pc, according to data that highlights the…
Up for a 4am supermarket shift, then lectures: the life of a UK student amid cost of living crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Five days a week, the sky is pitch black when George, a first-year student at Liverpool John Moores University, wakes up for…
Dramatic plan to overturn Sadiq Khan's ULEZ scheme receives major new backing
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A plan to overturn London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) scheme has received major new backing just days before the Bill is heard in…
Mortgage warning issued as 500,000 Brits to face payment hikes in next three months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Nearly half a million Brits will face a hike in their mortgage payments over the next three months. Read More
Jeremy Hunt’s free childcare pledge ‘doomed to fail’ as thousands of nurseries close amid staffing crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of nurseries have shut their doors amid a staffing crisis, leaving Jeremy Hunt’s flagship Budget pledge to expand free childcare for British families “doomed to failure”, The Independent has…
‘It’s extortionate’: a mother’s struggle to afford rising price of baby formula
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rebecca Anderson, 37, knows how it feels to be on the sharp end of baby formula price rises. Read More
Amid a hike in cooking gas prices, Nigerian households take to biofuel cooking
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Reading Time: < 1 minute It is almost lunch time at the Adeyemis’. Shola Adeyemi is a Kike Technologies biofuel customer. She pours biofuel gel into the…
UK interest rates to stay above 4% until 2026 says OECD
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Interest rates in the UK will stay above 4 per cent for another two years, a global economic watchdog has warned. Read More
UK faces being the second slowest growing economy in the G7 next year but will dodge recession, OECD says
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The UK faces being the second-slowest growing economy in the G7 next year but will dodge recession, according to new forecasts. Read More