‘It’s decimated’: Rayner faces a battle to boost Britain’s social housing

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

In the London borough of Harrow sits the site of the old Kodak factory. Built in the 1890s, it employed 6,000 workers at its peak in the 1950s before it

Ocado and AA join growing revolt against London congestion charge for electric vans

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

More than 40 businesses ­including Ocado, the AA and Openreach have called on the mayor of London to abandon plans to extend the ­congestion charge to electric vans. On Christmas

UK charities fear first-class stamp price rise will mean fewer Christmas cards sent

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Royal Mail has been accused of being “shortsighted” and risking a drop in the number of charity Christmas cards sent this year as it increases stamp prices for the fifth

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both plan to boost spending. How would that affect the federal debt?

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have both made numerous promises, some in the realm of vague pledges and others backed by detailed policies, that carry hefty

What do dockworkers do, and which parts of the job are automated?

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The three-day dockworker strike that crippled East and Gulf Coast ports put a spotlight on one of America’s most important jobs: loading and unloading the billions of products — from

Water supplier American Water Works says systems hacked

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

American Water Works — a supplier of drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people — on Monday said hackers had breached its computer networks and systems. 

English council may ask parents of children taken into care to pay half of costs

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A cash-strapped English council is considering charging parents of children taken into local authority care half of the weekly cost of looking after them. Derbyshire county council said “unprecedented financial

Verizon wireless customers experience second outage in one week

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Verizon has confirmed that it experienced its second outage in one week Monday, leaving some of its wireless customers unable to complete calls made to landlines.   “Some Verizon Wireless

People who have lived in UK for decades fear being ‘locked out’ by eVisas

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

People who have been UK residents for decades are worried they could find themselves “locked out” of the country at the end of the year when eVisas come into force.

Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’

October 6, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Ministers have been urged not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare fraud by launching mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accounts. Disability rights, poverty, pensioner and privacy groups fear the