21 h. ago I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationFrom the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of work. He did 19 jobs – shop assistant, hotel waiter, petrol attendant and security guard, among other things – in six cities. Although all these jobs were atrociously paid, they still earned him more than the one he tried for two years in the middle of this period: writer. (An 8,000-word story earned him less than 300 yuan – about £30.) Then, during Covid, he wrote a blog about his night shifts in a logistics warehouse, and it went viral. The blog expanded and became I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, which has sold nearly 2m copies in China since being published in 2023, and now appears in Jack Hargreaves’s English translation.The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market. The jobs Hu does dema...

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21 h. ago Hermes Birkin bag owned by Jane Birkin could fetch more than £300,000 at auction

It comes after Jane Birkin’s original Hermes Birkin sold for £7.4 million in the summer.

Economics

64 h. ago ‘Money runs out quickly’: Nearly 300,000 disadvantaged young children set to miss out on free meals

Exclusive: Experts warns Labour’s free school meal expansion will skip over a key cohort of disadvantaged children

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4 d. ago People with income over £35,000 could owe HMRC up to £300 from winter support

The Winter Fuel Payment is worth between £100 and £300 and is designed to help people with their energy bills during the colder months of the year - but some people may need to pay it back

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4 d. ago BBC set to cut its evening current affairs programming as number of licence fee payers plummets

The corporation is grappling with a steep decline in its funding, with 300,000 households ditching the licence fee last year.

Society

4 d. ago First 300,000 people get 'Digital ID cards' in case study for rest of UK

People will be able to install the cards from Friday ahead of the launch of a national ID card and digital driving licences

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5 d. ago BBC set to cut its evening news programming as number of licence fee payers plummets 

The corporation is grappling with a steep decline in its funding, with 300,000 households ditching the licence fee last year.

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5 d. ago Gold on track for $5,000 as precious metal hits new record high to nudge $4,300 for first time

Analysts suggested gold could be on the way to $5,000 as nervous investors look for somewhere safe to park their cash.

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5 d. ago Chinese broadcaster failed to pay Ofcom £300,000 for rule breaches, court told

Star China Media Ltd previously ran an English-language news channel named China Global Television Network but was stripped of its licence in 2021.

Economics

5 d. ago Carer who fleeced £300k from pensioner then fled to Tenerife caught on video

Fraudster Pamela Gwinnett, 62, fleeced £300,000 from a pensioner and attempted to drive a wedge between the grandmother and her family before fleeing to the Spanish island of Tenerife

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7 d. ago Jack Vettriano painting bought for £300 at a village art festival is valued at £10,000 on Antiques Roadshow

The oil on canvas artwork, called 'Deck Chairs', was painted more than 30 years ago by Vettriano, who was found dead aged 73 at his apartment in the south of France earlier this year.

Culture

1 week ago Carer who kept pensioner as 'caged animal' and stole £300K on

Pamela Gwinnett was sentenced to six years by a judge after she was found to have pilfered £300,000, all the while falsely claiming it was her family who were stealing

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1 week ago Heartless carer is on the run in Tenerife after stealing £300,000 from 89

Pamela Gwinnett, 62, treated frail and vulnerable Joan Green as a 'cash cow to be milked', even stealing her money after she died in November 2022.

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1 week ago Man Utd send fans survey asking if they’d pay £5,000 for season ticket at new stadium – a 300% increase on Old Trafford

MANCHESTER UNITED have asked fans whether they would be willing to pay more than FOUR TIMES as much for a season ticket at a new stadium than what they currently pay at Old Trafford. Red Devils chiefs are pressing ahead with plans for a stunning new £2billion stadium, which aims to be completed by 2030...

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1 week ago Plan to save activities at Falkirk community centre gets councillors' backing

The council will spend £300,000 on modular units to replace the centre which faces a repair bill of more than £3 million.

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1 week ago DWP issues update on plans to get 300,000 people back into work

The DWP says it wants to treat employment support as holistic care

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1 week ago DWP change to affect GP surgeries across nine areas in the country

DWP Secretary Pat McFadden pledged to give people a 'hand up, not a hand out' as he set out plans to get 300,000 people with an illness or disability into work by 2030

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1 week ago Taylor Swift beats Adele’s first week in US sales record with Life of a Showgirl

The star has already sold 3.5m units of her critically divisive album, a new record in the modern era of music salesTaylor Swift’s divisive new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has beaten Adele’s record-breaking 25 in first week sales numbers.According to data tracking firm Luminate, the album has already sold 3.5m units in the US which equates to 3.2m physical copies and 300,000 attributed to streaming activity. Adele achieved 3.482m in 2015 with her opening week sales of 25 which was led by hit Hello. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man who became popular in Blinking White Guy gif raises over $300,000 for multiple sclerosis research

Drew Scanlon, a resident of San Francisco, said the case was close to him as a friend and his mother are affectedThe man whose befuddled facial expression on a recorded video live stream in 2013 birthed what the internet collectively dubbed the Blinking White Guy meme has managed to convert his online notoriety into more than $300,000 for multiple sclerosis research, he said in a new interview.Drew Scanlon explained to ABC News that donating to the US’s National Multiple Sclerosis Society is important to him because a friend of his and her mother both have the chronic, autoimmune disease that attacks people’s central nervous systems. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stevie Nicol pays tribute to Ayr United Academy on 20th anniversary

Nicol headed from Somerset to Anfield for £300,000 back in 1981.

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