Banks to set overdraft rates of nearly 40% in 2020: here’s how to avoid such charges
Several banks are imposing new overdraft rates of 39.9% in 2020 – prompting experts to say paying 40% for being in the red could be the ‘new normal’.
Revealed: seven-year-old among scores of children caught with knives at school
Data obtained under Freedom of Information laws (FoI) showed 109 children were investigated for possessing, or threatening with, an offensive weapon or blade – or attempting to – in Kent from April 2017 to December 2019.
Mum of British teen convicted over Cyprus gang rape accusations backs tourism boycott
The teenager said she was raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel room in the party town of Ayia Napa on July 17.
A decade of Tory austerity in numbers
A few choice figures that sum up a decade of Conservative austerity:
Why I risked my life to come to the UK in a refrigerated lorry
Saman was looking forward to planning his future with his fiancee but instead he was arrested and thrown into a darkened cell.
Government slammed for ‘unjust’ refugee policy of ‘human misery and misspent public funds’
Charity Freedom From Torture has called for a complete overhaul of the asylum decision-making system.
NFU warns against Brexit allowing chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed meat into supermarkets
Trade deals with other countries must not ‘risk betraying’ high standards of food produced by British farmers, National Farmers’ Union president says.
‘It won’t be easy. But we have built a movement. We are the resistance to Johnson,’ vows Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn vows Labour will continue to defend UK’s public services, NHS, environment from Tories
First civil partnerships for mixed-sex couples to take place
Julie Thorpe and Keith Lomax are having a civil partnership ceremony at a register office in Halifax.