Nearly 3m savers will be hit by tax bill this year as more fall into the net than previously forecast
Around 120,000 more savers are set to pay tax on their savings interest in the space of a year, new data suggests. A total of 2.64million people will be hit with a savings tax bill in the 2025/26 financial year, a…
Why thousands of people are missing out on NHS jabs for agonising shingles virus
Widespread confusion over who is eligible for the NHS shingles jab means thousands are going unprotected against the agonising infection, a survey has revealed. The poll found one in five over-65s either did not know what shingles was or were unaware the…
Health officials tell UK to brace for surge of virus that is the leading cause of death in newborns
Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an upsurge in cases of a deadly lung infection amid a global rise. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which can be deadly for young children and the elderly, flares up every autumn in…
What a Hiroshima-sized blast would have done to LONDON: Unseen government diagrams imagine carnage if nuke was used on UK in 1945
Imagine a very different end to the Second World War. Instead of the US dropping the world’s first atomic bombs on Japan, it was the Japanese hammering London with the devastating new weapon. In 1945, that is more or less what was considered by…
Small boat migrants who lodge human rights claims will DODGE removal to France under Labour’s new scheme
Small boat migrants who lodge human rights claims in Britain will evade being returned to France under a massive loophole in Labour’s new deal. They will be ruled out of new deportation measures if legal claims are outstanding or if they claim…
Thousands more Britons will be dragged into paying tax on their hard-earned savings
Millions of Britons will be forced to pay tax on their savings this year as soaring numbers of workers are pulled into higher bands for the first time. Rachel Reeves‘s decision to keep tax thresholds frozen means many workers receiving…
How El Salvador’s brutal crackdown on crime transformed the country… and prompted US to declare it safer than Britain
El Salvador was once one of the most dangerous countries in the world, but today its murder rate has dropped by 98 per cent in a decade, and the US now considers it safer to visit than Britain or France. In…
Rachel Reeves will have to make huge tax hikes in autumn Budget to fill a £50 BILLION black hole, economists warn
Rachel Reeves will have to increase taxes substantially this autumn to fill a £50billion black hole, economists warned last night. In a dire warning, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said the Chancellor would have to find the equivalent…
Firms call for interest rate cuts as taxes bite
Business leaders last night urged the Bank of England to press ahead with interest rate cuts this week. The heads of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) told the…
Pensioners race to cash in pots to beat Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid
Pension withdrawals have spiked in the wake of the Government’s announcement of a tax raid on inherited pots. The amount taken out of retirement funds jumped by almost a quarter to £5billion in the first three months of this year,…