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Londoners are being invited to add £1 to their bills while dining out this festive season to help raise vital funds to support homeless people. Hundreds of restaurants, pubs, bars and hotels across the capital are taking part in this year’s StreetSmart campaign, running throughout November and December.more

Plans to close railway station ticket offices in England have been scrapped, in a government U-turn. The transport secretary, Mark Harper, said the “government had asked train operators to withdraw their proposals”.more

The number of companies going bust this year is on track to be the highest since the depths of the financial crisis in 2009. more

Britain said on Monday it would legislate to implement its first set of rules to regulate the crypto sector, requiring market participants to be authorised before they can offer services to consumers.more

Prices are reaching all time highs amid the Cost of Living crisis, with people's early morning caffeine fix now causing them one of the biggest expenditures. more

67 percent Poles believe that it is worth saving money, and 46 percent do it. all adults in the country - according to the latest report of the Think! Foundation and the Citi Handlowy Foundation. L. Kronenberg. The study also shows that 14 percent Polish residents have no savings.more

Millions of low-income households across the UK are starting to receive the latest instalment of cost-of-living payments from Tuesday. more

Petrol prices should be cut by 5p a litre by the biggest fuel retailers to reflect their lower wholesale costs, the RAC has said. The motoring body also says that drivers have not yet felt the benefits of the government's 5p duty cut brought in last year.more

Roehampton North West in Wandsworth has been named as one of the areas in London with the lowest household income of any neighbourhood. Households in the leafy London suburb on the border of Richmond Park earn an average of just £38,900 a year from the financial year 2020 according to data from the Office of National Statistics published this year.more

A think tank has proposed that the state pension age should rise to 75 as they issue a huge financial warning. more

Over 6.4 million adults in the UK are now behind on their energy bills, a rise of 824,000 since April, according to new research.more

The cap on bankers' bonuses is being removed as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of UK financial rules, it has been confirmed. The plan was announced by former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng last year as a way of making London a more attractive place to do business.more

Almost half a million workers in the UK whose employers are signed up to pay the voluntary real living wage are in line for a pay rise to at least £12 an hour, taking their annual wage to £3,000 a year above the government’s minimum wage. more

More than one million children in the UK experienced the most extreme form of poverty last year - that is, their families could not afford to feed, clothe, keep themselves hygienic or keep warm - according to a report published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).more

In Sweden, real wages have decreased in the last two years for the first time since the 1990s due to high inflation. The average gross salary in this country is 38,300 kroner (PLN 14,500); income tax still has to be paid on this depending on where you live.more

Cost of living pressures and NHS backlogs are creating a two-tier health service in England, where people who cannot afford to pay wait longer for care, warns a watchdog. more

Train passengers are facing another six months of potential strikes, after members of the RMT union voted for further industrial action. The dispute with rail companies has been going on for nearly 18 months more

Almost one million Londoners are claiming Universal Credit, according to latest data from the Department for Work and Pensions. more

A record number of more than one million food parcels are expected to be distributed during the coming winter by The Trussell Truss charity, which supports more than 1,300 food banks in the UK.more

For the first time in almost two years, the average increase in basic wages in the UK was faster than the rate of inflation, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.more

Approximately PLN 10 thousand gross per month can be earned in Poland by a person who hugs others, while an underwater welder can earn from PLN 13 to 17 thousand, according to a report by Personnel Service on the earnings of people in unusual professions. A crab fisherman abroad can expect to earn about 90 thousand zlotys.more

A quarter of working parents in London have struggled to afford to feed their families in the last year, a survey has found. One in four also said they had skipped a meal or not bought food to feed themselves more than once to ensure their children could eat.more

Tens of thousands of households across Northern Ireland are going to start being moved on to universal credit (UC) from Monday. Universal credit is a single benefit payment for working-age people to replace a range of different benefits in attempt to make the system simpler.more

A lucky player from US California has won $1.73 billion in the Powerball lottery, where no one has crossed off six right numbers in a long time, AP reported yesterday.more

An Irish business owner has admitted he is concerned that wage inflation could hit his growth and expansion plans over the coming years. Velo Coffee founder, Rob Horgan, said that while he welcomed many of the measures announced in the Budget to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, he was very worried about the potential impact of wage inflation on small and medium-sized Irish businesses over the comore