5 h. ago Meghan's As Ever launch was Glastonbury Festival for $14 'jam'

It's too early to call the rollout a success, but people will happily pay through the nose for branded fruity spreads

Politics

6 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: Britain's police forces are a pathetic failure and a dark menace to our society. This is my plan to finally fix the problem

We pay these people, and we pay them a lot, as your council tax bill will tell you if you look. So why do they treat us as a nuisance and worse?

Events

22 h. ago Lawsuit claims Musk failed to make promised payments over 2024 petition signatures

A federal lawsuit accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the political action committee he started of failing to pay a suburban Philadelphia man more than $20,000 for getting people to sign a petition in favor of free speech and gun rights

Events

44 h. ago HMRC warning over scheme where people pay ‘more tax than they tried to avoid’

It claims to cut your tax bill by disguising your income, but help is available for those that want out

Events

61 h. ago State Pension tax bill warning to older people before new pay rates start next week

Older people with only the State Pension as their source of income will not pay income tax.

Economics

62 h. ago Millions of people in work to receive £26 pay rise in wages from this week

Full-time workers can expect to make £26 more a week, and £117 more a month.

Economics

2 d. ago Almost half of Scots worried about energy bills as price cap rises, poll finds

The poll found that 46% of people are concerned about their ability to pay for gas or electricity.

Economics

4 d. ago Full list of people who don't have to pay for a TV licence as fee rises

On April 1 the TV licence fee will rise for households

Politics

4 d. ago All the people who do not have to pay council tax as bills set to rise on April 1

Council tax bills are set to rise for millions of households from April 1, but some people will not have to pay the levy - here are the exemptions you need to know about

Economics

5 d. ago Farage confirms he wants new NHS funding model but Labour says plan would lead to huge patient bills – UK politics live

Nigel Farage has tried to fend off claims that Reform UK would force people to pay to see a doctorNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, also told Today that the UK should negotiate a wide-ranging trade deal with the US. This should include agriculture, he said. Farage acknowledged that in the past talks on this have been held up by Britain not wanting to allow food imports produced to America’s less rigorous standards, but he claimed the solution was just to give consumers a choice. He said:Now there’s been some concern about chlorine-treated chicken etc, but there is an answer to that which is label things, let consumers decide I would allow consumers in America to buy our products and consumers here to buy their products, and provided we have the right labelling, that’s good.It looks like Nigel Farage has had the full indoctrination at Mar-a-Lago. No one in this country wants chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves.Farage wants to sell out our hard-working British farmers for...

Economics

5 d. ago ‘We live in both worlds’: how teachers of Gullah Geechee herbal medicine are cultivating tradition

Classes on ‘hoodoo’ connect new generations eager to explore their roots with elders in the South Carolina communityWith their eyes downcast in reflection, dozens of people dressed in white crossed a bridge to pay respect to their ancestors last October. They carried flowers, herbs and photos of their loved ones to lay at the foot of an altar on a tiny strip of land in the middle of a pond. For the last few years, this ritual at the start of the annual Gullah Geechee herbal gathering on Johns Island, South Carolina, has served as a link between the living and the dead. “It gives them a sacred space to connect with the land,” the gathering’s founder, Khetnu Nefer, said about the attendees, and to “connect with our communal ancestors”.Held on Nefer’s family’s land, a stretch of 10 acres (four hectares) of flat grass surrounded by woods, the gathering educates attendees on the herbal traditions of the descendants of west Africans enslaved on the Sea Islands along the south-east US. Ove...

Society

5 d. ago Millions of people in Wales to receive a pay rise within days

The UK Government has confirmed a new national living wage and a new national minimum wage which will take effect from from April 1

Economics

5 d. ago Rachel Reeves considers fresh tax raid on savers in bid to balance books

HMRC estimates that an extra 893,000 people will have to pay tax on savings by 2028-29

Economics

7 d. ago Britain's wealth squashed under Reeves... and it could get WORSE: Brits face an extra YEAR of flatlining wealth, a record tax burden with fears of more to come

In its latest outlook, the OBR said it does not expect real GDP per person to return to 2022 levels - before the energy crisis hit - until 2026.

Economics

7 d. ago Britain's wealth gets squashed under Reeves: Brits face an extra YEAR of flatlining wealth, a record tax burden... and the only thing propping up GDP is mass immigration

In its latest outlook, the OBR said it does not expect real GDP per person to return to 2022 levels - before the energy crisis hit - until 2026.

Economics

7 d. ago Three million workers to get pay rise from next week thanks to major change

The national living and minimum wage will rise next week meaning some people will see a £2,500 annual pay jump

Economics

8 d. ago Warm Home Discount Scheme to expand and pay million more people £150 this year

Around three million more families would qualify for energy bill discounts under new proposals from the UK Government.

Economics

9 d. ago I am sweating all night and have been going through hell since August. What is wrong with me

I'm 83 years old and my doctor is convinced I'm the oldest person in the UK who has glandular fever - when can I expect the night sweats, among other things, to stop? Dr Martin Scurr, above left, answers.

Politics

9 d. ago Ed Miliband mulls plan that could see people in the South pay MORE for electricity than Northerners

Under radical reforms being considered by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, the UK may be split into several different zones with varying electricity prices between them.

Politics

9 d. ago £303 annual State Pension pay boost for older people with grandchildren

Claims for Specified Adult Childcare can be backdated to April 6, 2011.

Economics