Water bills set to rise by 8 per cent,biggest hike in 20 years
Water bills are set to rise by an average of £31 to £448 a year
It will be the largest increase in almost 20 years...
Shop price inflation hits new heights
Prices in British shops in January were 8.0% higher than a year before, the biggest annual increase since at least 2006 when comparable records...
Unemployment three times higher than figures suggest as economic inactivity deepens regional divides
The UK’s record-low unemployment figures do not include a hidden army of more than three million working-aged people that are involuntarily economically inactive, according...
Firefighters vote for mandate for strike action
Firefighters across the UK have delivered a decisive mandate for strike action, with 88% voting Yes on a 73% turnout.
Two separate simultaneous ballots, in...
15 year old Northumberland murder victim named as 16 year old boy charged with...
A 15-year-old girl who died following an alleged assault in Hexham has now been named – as a teenage boy is charged with murder.
The...
16 year old arrested on suspicion of murder after 15 year old girl stabbed...
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of assault, and later on suspicion of murder after a 15 year old girl was killed in...
Customers told not to turn up at airport as Flybe collapses for a second...
Regional carrier Flybe has ceased trading and all scheduled flights have been cancelled
People are being urged not to go to airports after all of...
City pay has risen more than three times faster than NHS key worker pay...
City pay including bonuses (pay in the financial services and insurance sector), has risen more than three times faster than nurses' pay since 2008,...
Funeral costs lower for bereaved families following CMA order
A review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the funerals market has indicated that the introduction of transparency rules, part of its...
Report recommends that social workers be paid £2 per hour more than the minimum...
A report out this morning is recommending that Social care workers should have their minimum pay set at £2 above the adult minimum wage.
This would...