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One million people told to claim £150 grant ‘ASAP’ as deadline is weeks away
England’s poorest families have been urged to claim a £150 grant “as soon as possible” after it emerged up to a million could miss out. Ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the April rebate for households in council tax bands A-D to help with…
Brits will be paid to run tumble dryers at quieter times to save UK from blackouts
Brits will be paid to stop using their energy-gobbling appliances at peak times to lower the risk of blackouts this winter.National Grid ESO (Electricity System Operator) is drawing up plans for customers to get money back off soaring bills…
Government draws up ‘demented’ plan to send Brits to GPs for an energy bills discount
Tory ministers face a backlash over “demented” plans to send Brits to their GP - for a doctor’s note discount off energy bills. The idea is one of several drawn up by Treasury officials to cut bills this winter - and Liz Truss or Rishi…
Labour’s energy price freeze would save elderly 26p in every pound of their pension
Labour’s energy price freeze would save elderly people living alone 26p in every pound they get in pension.But if the new cap goes ahead in October three in four single pensioners struggling to get by on £141.85 a week will be thrown into…
‘Labour needs to be in the room where it happens – it needs to think long-term’
Wednesday night, I went to see Hamilton at the theatre. I’ve been waiting since 2017 to see the acclaimed musical. Couldn’t get tickets, then there was the pandemic, until finally the big day arrived. I’d been looking forward to it on…
Ex P&O workers’ fury as firm escapes legal action after sacking 800 employees
Devastated seafarers today urged transport chief Grant Shapps to quit after P&O escaped legal action over sacking 800 of them. News of the legal let-off came after the ferry firm’s parent company, DP World, recorded a staggering 52%…
‘While Tories obsess over the leadership contest, millions skip meals to make ends meet’
We expect our MPs to lead by example. Not scoff at voters making the agonising choice between heating and eating as they fill their faces. Yet that is exactly what they are doing by sending 2.6 million of their taxpayer subsidised…
Outrage as MPs and Lords bin 2.6 million subsidised meals while families struggle
Pampered MPs and Lords have binned 2.6million dinners as ordinary people struggle to feed their families. Mounds of heavily subsidised grub went to landfill in a waste scandal that has enraged food poverty groups. Stomach-churning…
Ex-minister abandons hope of Tory Islamophobia probe promised by Boris Johnson
Former Transport minister Nusrat Ghani has abandoned hope of a Tory Islamophobia probe promised by Boris Johnson. The MP for Wealden, 49, said: “I have tried to progress this but it’s clear nothing is going to happen.” The former charity…
Dialysis patients forced to choose eating or surviving as energy bills rise by £787
Home dialysis patients are facing the grim choice between heating, eating and surviving as extra energy costs for their machines are set to rise by £787 in October. And they face a double whammy of worry because NHS reimbursement is so…
