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Cheryl Prudham - who already gets £40,000-a-year in taxpayers' cash - is expecting for the 13th time.more

Argos owner Sainsbury's has been fined £1.5m by HMRC for paying workers less than the minimum wage. Around 37,000 current and former Argos workers are to receive an average of £64 each after "incorrect" payments were discovered.more

The amount spent by families on alcoholic drinks, tobacco and recreational drugs fell to its lowest level since modern records began, costing the typical household £11.40 a week last year compared with nearly £20 in 2001-02, according to the Office for National Statistics.more

House prices across England are rising at a faster pace than in London, according to the latest ONS and Land Registry figures. The impacts of April's stamp duty changes and June's Brexit vote were felt most keenly in London, which suffered pockets of stagnant - or falling - price growth during the second half of 2016.more

Retail giants Debenhams and Peacocks are among 360 businesses named and shamed by the Government for underpaying thousands of workers a total of almost £1 million.more

Aldi is hiring for new positions at its supermarkets and the salaries and benefits on offer are incredible. The budget German chain is luring would-be staff with bumper wage packets, including offering salaries for store managers that are almost double the UK average.more

It's hard enough for a couple pooling their wages to get onto the property ladder in London. Now, a new report reveals it's practically impossible to buy if you're single.more

Deny it as much as you like, but nothing quite says 'I love as' being able to demonstrate the pounding your credit card has taken on Valentine's Day.more

Traffic wardens were today accused of handing out parking fines before restrictions kick in.more

European Comission belives that Polish GDP will increase to 3,2 per cent in 2017.more

The price of fish and chips could be about to rise as a strike by Icelandic fishermen threatens the UK's supply of fresh cod and haddock. more

Four in ten working Britons do not think that they will ever retire fully. A survey by Mintel, the market research company, found little optimism about retirement. Just over a third of Britons thought that they would stop working entirely.more

n January 2017, 22 out of the 28 EU Member States (Denmark, Italy, Cyprus, Austria, Finland and Sweden were the exceptions) had a national minimum wage, as did all of the EU candidate countries. As of 1 January 2017, monthly minimum wages varied widely across the Member States, from EUR 235 in Bulgaria to EUR 1 999 in Luxembourg.more

British Gas is keeping its current gas and electricity prices on hold until August. The company said it was able to hold tariffs in the face of higher wholesale prices by cutting its costsmore

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wants to cut child allowance for migrants from within the European Union in an effort to crack down on benefit fraud, according to a document seen by dpa on Friday.more

Some of the world's biggest brands are unwittingly funding Islamic extremists, white supremacists and pornographers by advertising on their websites, The Times can reveal.more

High street banks are hitting customers with exorbitant fees for unauthorised overdrafts, research has found. Customers needing to borrow as little as £100 could be charged up to £180 in fees - almost eight times more than if they went to a payday lender.more