48 h. ago Bereaved families of dead pensioners ‘could be pursued by taxman to recoup winter fuel payments’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that millions more elderly Britons will receive the allowance this year in a major U-turn

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1 week ago The vital piece of private information criminals try to steal

Millions of Britons have had their data stolen in one of the countless cyber hacks on UK companies. Experts Dr Nicola Harding, right, and Jano Bermudes reveal how you can protect yourself.

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1 week ago This is the vital piece of private information that criminal gangs are trying to steal from you

Millions of Britons have had their data stolen in one of the countless cyber hacks on UK companies. Experts Dr Nicola Harding, right, and Jano Bermudes reveal how you can protect yourself.

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1 week ago Millions of Britons putting teeth at risk by bingeing on sugary treats after dinner and failing to brush before bed, dentists warn

One in three adults (33 per cent) admit to snacking every night, with more than two in three (68 per cent) opting for the likes of chocolates, sweets and biscuits.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on billionaire Britain: tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling | Editorial

Without bold reform which makes the rich pull their weight, rising inequality risks eroding public trust and fracturing social stabilityBritain for the last decade has experienced a bleak paradox: rising child poverty alongside a dramatic increase in billionaire wealth. This inequality has been tolerated partly because greed has been rehabilitated as virtue. The Billionaire Britain report, published this week by the Equality Trust, reveals what many instinctively feel but few in parliament will admit: the UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth.Using Sunday Times Rich List data, the report found that the 50 wealthiest UK families now own more than the poorest half of the population combined. Their opulence is no accident. It’s largely built on the labour and consumption of those 34 million other Britons. The gains of society are being hoarded by those least in need. There’s a lexicon that sells it all as “entrepreneurial spirit” and bus...

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2 w. ago Scots dad's devastating diagnosis after 'failing to eat Christmas dinner'

Emer and Kealan Delaney are taking part in the Edinburgh Marathon and Half Marathon to raise vital funds for new myeloma treatments after their dad Jim was hit with a shock cancer diagnosis in 2020.

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2 w. ago Starmer and his allies spent so long attacking Labour’s left, they forgot how to govern | Owen Jones

Rehashing 20-year-old Blairite ideas that were stale then will inspire nobody. Britain is crying out for bold, transformative policy-makingJust why has Keir Starmer’s government proved such a catastrophe? This is a question that must be posed to his cheerleaders, or at least those who were at one time cheerleaders: the road from the last general election is lined with silently discarded pompoms. The idea here is not to rub their faces in a political project that is now both electorally toxic and morally bankrupt, but to determine what happens next.First off, the failure should be considered absolute. It is projected that a Labour government will drive more than a million Britons into – or more deeply into – poverty through an assault on disability benefits. The same government imposed hardship on many pensioners by stripping away the winter fuel payment, and it refuses to reverse the Tories’ two-child benefit cap, the UK’s biggest single generator of child poverty. Not content with ...

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