Rough sleepers will receive a lump sum payment of £2,000 to spend on whatever they want – as part of a study to see if it helps them find housing faster. Researchers at King’s College London will follow those given the funding for a year to see if it makes a difference. A total of 250 homeless people livingContinue reading “Rough Sleepers Get £2,000 To Spend However They Want”
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Post Office Closures Will Hit Rural Areas Hardest
Labour has acknowledged that proposals to cut the number of post offices in half will disproportionately affect the elderly in rural regions. It says ‘nearly half’ of all those nationwide are no longer profitable and subsidies are unsustainable, meaning almost 6,000 of the 11,500 risk being scrapped. Part-time ones, which open a few days aContinue reading “Post Office Closures Will Hit Rural Areas Hardest”
Dressed Up As A Nurse To Sell Drugs During The COVID Pandemic
A Polish crook who pretended to be a nurse to deal drugs during the Covid pandemic has avoided deportation after a judge ruled her offences were not serious enough. Urszula Kareme impersonated an NHS ‘key worker’ to evade detection in her role with an organised crime group that traded large quantities of cocaine, heroin and cannabis in lockdown. When policeContinue reading “Dressed Up As A Nurse To Sell Drugs During The COVID Pandemic”
Cash Is No Longer King?
Nigel Farage last night promised to lead a ‘crypto revolution’ in Britain that would see the Bank of England build up a Bitcoin reserve’. The Reform leader, who is facing accusations of having ‘fantasy’ economic plans, used an appearance at a digital currency conference in Las Vegas to vow to ‘bring our country properly into the 21st century’. He used hisContinue reading “Cash Is No Longer King? “
Money-Only Nail Bars, Barbers, And Car Washes Feed Illegal Migration
Britons using cash-only nail bars, barbers or car washes are ‘feeding the problem’ of illegal migration and could be creating more victims of slavery, a top Home Office official has warned. Bas Javid, the director general of immigration enforcement, said that working in the UK’s black economy is a ‘pull factor’ for those coming to the countryContinue reading “Money-Only Nail Bars, Barbers, And Car Washes Feed Illegal Migration”
Restaurants Now Charge You For Paying Your Bill! Shoreditch Eatery Slammed For £2.99 ‘Checkout Fee’ On Top Of 13.5% Service Fee
Diners at a Shoreditch restaurant have been left with a bitter aftertaste after seemingly being charged for the ‘privilege of paying their bill’. A patron sent a photo of a digital receipt from their March 28 visit to the Italian Trattoria Gloria, where they discovered an odd additional fee. The consumer was charged a “checkoutContinue reading “Restaurants Now Charge You For Paying Your Bill! Shoreditch Eatery Slammed For £2.99 ‘Checkout Fee’ On Top Of 13.5% Service Fee”
An Aussie Pub’s Ban On Cash Backfires
A new brewpub which opened this week in Western Australia generated a stir on social media after it said it wouldn’t take cash and only accepted card payments. Froth Craft Brewery, across the road from North Beach in Perth’s north, celebrated its opening in preparation for the weekend crowds, with the brewery’s two other pubsContinue reading “An Aussie Pub’s Ban On Cash Backfires”
The Fight To Keep Pizza Hut Open Has Begun
Pizza Hut faces a debt problem as people spend less on dining out due to the cost-of-living crisis while it wrestles with substantial rises in energy and food prices. Auditors have raised fears over whether the beloved family restaurant can continue trading, while experts claimed similar debt problems are hitting other similar chains. The USContinue reading “The Fight To Keep Pizza Hut Open Has Begun”
In Three Years’ Time, Australia May Be Cashless
A finance expert has warned Australia could become a cashless society in as little as three years with thousands of people to be left worse off because of it. Among those who could suffer in a cashless society are people in regional areas, those caught in emergencies, indigenous Australians, new immigrants, sex workers, the elderlyContinue reading “In Three Years’ Time, Australia May Be Cashless”
The Theft Of £120 From An Account Left Mum Fuming
A single mum has been left panicking about how she was going to pay for food and electricity after £120 came out of her account when she filled up with £10 of petrol. Mum of four Tina Harding called at the Esso Tesco petrol station, in Ardwick, at about 11.20 am, Friday, March 10 toContinue reading “The Theft Of £120 From An Account Left Mum Fuming”
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