According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 287,000 jobs below the national minimum wage held by people aged 16 and over in the UK last year.
Retired IT manager Nigel Clarke, from Kent in the UK, has launched a website listing the call centre menu sequences for accessing thousands of services.
One in four London properties are at risk of flooding, according to official assessments. Otside the capital, Hull and the surrounding East Riding local authorities have the greatest number of properties at risk.
Migrants' cost to the NHS is far smaller proportionally than Britons because they are younger, less likely to be ill and less likely to have started a family. The service is also not quite as good as in Poland.
Irish people in the UK are less likely to identify themselves as British than almost any other ethnic group, according to information released in the 2011 census. Roma, Caribbeans and Pakistanis are more than twice as likely to identify as British than are the Irish, while fewer than 40% of Irish people identify as British compared to more than 80% of many other ethnic groups.
A quarter of Britons have not changed their bed sheets for at least six months, a new study claims. Just 17 per cent of people were found to change their bedding every week, while 28 per cent admit they only wash their sheets once a month.
The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has called for the upcoming inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry.
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