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Jeremy Hunt’s freeze on allowances and thresholds will put a quarter of teachers and one-eighth of nurses in 40% income tax bracketOne in four teachers and one in eight nurses will be higher-rate taxpayers by 2027 as a result of the government’s record…
Damien Sartip Zadeh and his brother, Dale, used fraudulent website to trick people into paying for the cardsTwo brothers have been jailed for defrauding £2m from “unsuspecting, ordinary, busy” people who were tricked into thinking they needed to pay fo…
South Cambridgeshire council will test 32-hour week on principle that staff will work ‘more intensely and productively’Bin crews could soon be putting their feet up on a Monday as the wave of four-day-week trials spreading across the UK finally reaches…
CMA says it has found evidence retailers are putting up petrol and diesel prices to unnecessarily high levelsThe competition watchdog is to question supermarket bosses after finding evidence that retailers have increased fuel prices to unnecessarily hi…
Tenants in Great Britain now typically paying 25% more than they were at the start of Covid pandemic, according to dataBusiness live – latest updatesThe average new monthly rent outside London has passed £1,000 for the first time, figures show, with te…
Warning comes as UK watchdog set to tighten rules for asset managers given short-term targetsPeople investing their pensions in funds that claim green credentials are being warned they may actually be backing the world’s largest oil and gas companies.C…
Measures being introduced in August labelled ‘deeply regressive’ and research suggests nurses and teachers could be among the worst affectedThe government’s student loan reforms will benefit the country’s best-paid graduates at the expense of nursing g…
Impact of Bank of England’s decision to hike rates to 4.5% will be felt mostly by young families, thinktank says Soaring interest rates will cost UK mortgage holders £12bn in extra payments, according to a leading thinktank which said the impact will b…
Michael Gove to introduce bill strengthening lessors’ rights in England as charities warn of impact for domestic abuse victimsLandlords in England will be able to evict tenants for antisocial behaviour more easily as part of a wider package of reforms …
Kents Cavern, described as ‘the most important prehistoric cave complex in Britain’, is up for sale for £2.5mIt is billed by the estate agent as “Britain’s oldest home” and includes a network of caves featuring stalagmites and stalactites, a collection…