18 h. ago MoneySuperMarket says two changes will save families almost £500

Everyone is feeling the pinch, but families can be £200 a month worse off than those without children at home

Economics

54 h. ago 500 more school breakfast clubs could save families up to £450, Government says

The Department for Education has announced schools with more pupils from lower income backgrounds will be able to apply to open breakfast clubs.

Politics

1 week ago Britain’s ‘2nd biggest online retailer’ is taken over by US giant after £500million loss

THE UK’s "second biggest online retailer" has been taken over by a US giant after suffering a £500 million loss. The latest move means one of the richest families in Britain has lost another piece of its business empire. On Monday, online retailer The Very Group, which owns Littlewoods.com, confirmed it had been taken over...

Economics

1 week ago Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protestsHow would you feel if the owner of the football club you support was implicated, even as those implications are repeatedly denied, in famine, ethnic cleansing and the deaths of 1,500 men, women and children?Compare this with the more familiar list of bad things football club owners do, the real sack‑the‑board stuff. Failure to buy a striker. Inadequate Showing Of Ambition. The hiring and/or firing of David Moyes. Mike Ashley was pretty annoying. He had shops full of quilted coats hung really high up close to the ceiling. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Hospital blunder mistakenly sends letters to hundreds of families claiming their loved ones are dead

The system wrongly sent the letters to the families and relatives of more than 500 patients.

Events

2 w. ago Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community actsIt unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago HMRC cuts child benefit for 23,500 families based on incomplete travel data

UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routesParents who went from Liverpool to Amsterdam with their autistic children are among thousands who have had their child benefit wrongly stopped as part of a crackdown on benefit fraud, it has emerged.The error by HM Revenue and Customs emerged 48 hours after the Guardian and the Detail reported on hundreds of families in Northern Ireland who had child benefit stopped after they returned home from holiday via Dublin airport, leaving HMRC with the impression they had taken a one-way ticket out of the country and were fraudulently collecting child benefit. Continue reading...

Society