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Energy bills could be higher than mortgage payments next year, say experts
Many people are set to see their disposable incomes shrink significantly in 2023 with utility bills catching up with mortgages.
Young adults forced to ditch university aspirations due to cost-of-living crisis
18-24 year-olds are also finding themselves using food banks for the first time, the research found.
Pensioner becomes oldest person in Britain to ever pass a GCSE exam – aged 92
"I think that is going to be my lot and I'm going to retire now. Having one is enough for me."
Emily Maitlis’s former Newsnight editor praises ‘brilliant’ MacTaggart Lecture
The journalist, who left the BBC earlier this year, said the media was often guilty of ‘normalising’ populist views in the name of balance.
King’s College Chapel water is ‘40% sewage’
"The whole thing is quite simply an organised rip-off, it's a crime being perpetrated upon all bill holders, that should fill all of us with an almighty righteous anger and fury."
Emily Maitlis says an ‘active Tory party agent’ shaped BBC news output
The former Newsnight presenter highlighted the role of Sir Robbie Gibb who was appointed to the BBC board by Boris Johnson.
‘Phenominal’ Maitlis says UK media in ‘automatic crouch position’ over Brexit
"Many broadcasters fear discussing the obvious economic cause of major change in this country in case they get labelled pessimistic or unpatriotic."
Beachgoers face MORE pollution as water companies spent £5 billion on infrastructure but took a lot more in dividends
In the last decade, there had been a reduction in investment in sewage infrastructure in England and defunding of regulators, with water companies left in charge of self-monitoring,
Boris Johnson will ‘run the country’ from Chequers and people aren’t having it
"Can we charge Boris Johnson for every day he’s living at Chequers please. Absolutely sick of him sponging off taxpayers."