Local services will cost at least £8bn more by 2024, which cannot be funded...
Councils in England face extra cost pressures of almost £8 billion by 2024/25 just to keep vital local services running at today’s levels, analysis...
Covid booster jabs to be rolled out to over 40’s
The Covid-19 booster vaccination programme should be extended to include healthy people aged 40 to 49, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)...
Inflation hits highest level for a decade
Inflation has reached a 10 year high with the consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation in November reaching 5.1 per cent up from...
Asylum reforms would undermine UK’s human rights obligations say MP’s
The Government reforms of the asylum system, as proposed in the Nationality and Borders Bill, would fail to meet the UK’s human rights obligations...
When the cupboard is bare: Impact of low pay revealed by conference
On a busy opening day of UNISON’s women’s conference – held virtually because of the continuing pandemic – delegates worked hard to ensure they...
UK borrowing falls putting Sunak in better position to ease cost of living crisis
UK public borrowing has fallen by more than half since its peak during the pandemic, but debt servicing costs are rising rapidly, official figures...
The Fight against spiking is hampered by lack of understanding and poor victim support...
MP's are warning that spiking will remain an invisible crime unless more is done to improve awareness and support victims.
In a report published today...
New league tables show how quickly police forces answer 999 calls
Sixty nine per cent of 999 calls across Greater Manchester were answered within ten according to the first ever national data
Nineteen per cent of...
Retail sales fall at rates not seen since pandemic
Retail sales are falling at a rate “not seen since the depths of the pandemic”, said the British Retail Consortium. The volume of retail...
Grant Shapps is told “Wake up and put the passengers first” over West Coast...
Labour have urged the Grant Shapps to “wake up and put passengers and the public first” as service cancellations by the operator, Avanti West...