The British public continues to watch grocery bills, petrol pumps, and heating meters with extreme caution. After a couple of years of massive price spikes that left people feeling completely skint, things are finally shifting. But anyone hoping that things will actually get cheaper is going to be disappointed. Prices are still going up, just […]
The lowest-paid workers in the UK saw their hourly pay packets increase dramatically yesterday with the introduction of new National Living Wage rates. From 1 April 2023, the statutory minimum for workers over the age of 21 has risen to £12.71 per hour, up 4.1%. Although the uplift offers welcome respite to help with the […]
The hot water bottle warning in the UK has been shouting about all year? It’s serious. (Burn injuries from hot water bottles have nearly doubled in five years.) And in 2024, 978 people wound up in burn units, compared to 501 in 2020. That is practically twice as many people with serious injuries from something many of […]
