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No joke: Quadruple whammy of increased costs hit Brits
An end to free Covid tests, unprecedented increases in energy bills and tax hikes come into force on the same day as MPs receive a whopping pay rise.
UK visa scheme ‘asks if four-year-old Ukrainian is a terrorist’
The British wife of a Ukrainian-born woman said the visa scheme took away the humanity of her relatives.
E.ON blames Martin Lewis for crashing their website – Twitter reacts
"Possibly the most tin-eared, arrogant statement I've ever seen from an energy supplier."
ScotRail to be nationalised on Friday in ‘historic moment’
The rail operator comes into public ownership on Friday, April 1.
Homeless deaths surge by 80% in two years, with Tory cuts blamed
The Museum of Homelessness found that 1,286 people died while homeless across the UK in 2021.
Hundreds of ‘climate-degrading’ ghost flights leaving UK every month
MPs lashed out at the "nefarious" practice, and accused ministers of a "serious vacuum of accountability".
The amount of tax Starbucks paid in the UK last year will shock you
The coffee chain paid out more than five times its UK tax contributions in royalty payments, it has been revealed.
‘Bad idea in 2021. It’s a terrible idea now:’ Shell confirms licence extended for Cambo oil field
“The majority of Brits don’t want millions wasted on a field like Cambo, a project that will make our future less secure but will make some oil execs even richer."
‘Woeful’ progress on visas branded a ‘waste of British people’s generosity’
"Only one in 100 of the offers by people to open their homes has been taken up because of the way the Government is running the scheme,” Lisa Nandy said.