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UK households’ spending power to drop by £3,000, think tank warns
Sep 02, 2022 01:23Households in Britain are set to see their spending power dropped by an average of £3,000 by the end of next year, marking the biggest drop in living standards in the UK in at least a century, a new study has revealed.
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Rwanda genocide survivors left homeless by UK’s refugee deal
Aug 31, 2022 06:44The former residents of a hostel in Rwanda who were ejected under a controversial deal to host refugees to be flown from the UK have complained of being left homeless while the property remains unoccupied.
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Rising energy bills put millions of UK households at risk of winter catastrophe
Aug 29, 2022 14:20Experts say 80% price cap increase will plunge British people into destitution and cause an increase in avoidable deaths without urgent government support.
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HMS Prince of Wales breaks down one day after leaving Portsmouth
Aug 29, 2022 08:34The United Kingdom’s biggest warship has suffered "an emerging mechanical issue” off the British south coast shortly after setting sail for the United States.
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Goldman Sachs sees UK economy slipping into recession later this year
Aug 29, 2022 08:31A leading US-based investment banking company has warned of a recession looming over Britain as a result of surging inflation and worsening cost-of-living crisis that has hit Britons hard in recent months.
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800,000 children face hunger in UK; don’t qualify for free school meals: Report
Aug 29, 2022 02:01Hundreds of thousands of children could go hungry across Britain as their families do not qualify for free meal programs that are run by schools.
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Ukrainian refugees in UK facing homelessness ‘disaster’ next year
Aug 28, 2022 09:25Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the UK have been warned that they could be homeless next year.
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Unions threaten ‘waves of industrial action’ over UK cost of living crisis
Aug 28, 2022 08:39British unions are threatening a wave of coordinated industrial strike action in the coming weeks as millions of low-paid workers are reeling from the cost of living crisis.
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Strike by waste workers in Scotland fills streets with garbage
Aug 28, 2022 02:08A strike by Scottish refuse workers over a pay dispute continues in Edinburgh, resulting in piles of rubbish and overflowing bins in the city center.
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British protest outside Ofgem HQ after dramatic rise in energy bills
Aug 27, 2022 09:51Hundreds of Britons have protested outside the headquarters of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) in London over “astronomical” energy price hikes.