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Almost half of UK workers have had their accents mocked, criticised or singled out in a social setting, a survey suggests. more

68 percent of Poles are concerned about the stability of their earnings, while 23 percent are afraid of losing their jobs, according to a survey by ARC Rynek i Opinia on the current economic situation released Thursday.more

A clear majority of Britons believe the government has lost control of the country's borders, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is not seen as a politician who can solve the problem of illegal immigration across the English Channel, according to a poll released.more

The number of people in England and Wales who were born outside the UK has increased by 2.5 million since 2011, latest census data shows.more

People are happier and more satisfied with life in Wales compared to the previous year, according to an annual wellbeing survey. more

In Poland, cremations account for about 40 percent of burials, reported Dariusz Dutkiewicz, director of the Institute of Funeral and Cemetery Industries (IBPiC). More and more people are also choosing to order urns in original shapes, such as a piano or a motorcycle helmet.more

Many customers with prepayment meters have not yet redeemed vouchers to help with energy bills, the BBC has learned. From 1 October, households should have begun to receive the first £400 instalment of the government's Energy Bill Support Scheme.more

The number of people sleeping rough in London has jumped 24% in the past year, according to an official count, meaning more than 3,600 people slept on the capital’s streets between June and September.more

Health campaigners are calling for a loophole to be closed that allows a nicotine product to be sold over the counter and online to under-18s.more

Autumn is the least popular season for exercise in London, a survey has found. Less than two per cent of Londoners say they feel motivated to keep fit in October and November.more

With warnings from the National Grid that the country could be hit with electricity outages for the first time in 50 years, Metro.co.uk spoke to an expert about what a ‘worse-case’ scenario could look like.more

The number of Dutch people is growing, with 17.8 million now living in the Netherlands, reports the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The increase is almost entirely due to migration, primarily from Ukraine, India and Turkey.more

New insolvency service data showed that 27,927 individual insolvencies were recorded over the three months to September. more

44.2 percent of respondents believe that the 500+ benefit should be paid only to those most in need, according to an IBRiS poll published yesterday in Rzeczpospolita.more

Nearly a quarter of Canada's population, 23 percent, are immigrants, according to data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada. The last time Canada had such a high percentage of immigrants was a hundred years ago.more

People's inability to afford essential hygiene products is leaving many too ashamed to go to work, a charity says. more

The energy crisis is pushing more households onto prepayment gas and electricity meters, research suggests.more

Americans are increasingly less optimistic about the future of youth. If in 2019 60 percent believed that young people would have a better life than their parents, today it is only 42 percent.more

Britons are pinning higher - though not excessively high - hopes on the person of new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak than they had for his predecessor Liz Truss, but the number of those who want early elections has increased, according to two polls released yesterday.more

Around one in five girls and young women do not feel safe in UK schools, according to a new survey. more

Maternity services in England have deteriorated to their lowest level, the hospitals regulator has said, as it expressed “deep concerns” about the quality of care given to mothers and babies.more

Britons buy more new items of clothing each year than people living in any other country in Europe. The average Briton owns 76 items of clothing, but throws away 72 of them each year, reports the " Telegraph" daily.more

Most Poles will blame the government for the lack of money from the European Union, according to a poll commissioned by "Rzeczpospolita," published Saturday on the newspaper's website.more

Thousands of protesters have marched through central London calling for the UK to rejoin the EU. The national rejoin march on Saturday saw large crowds of people walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square. Marchers from across the UK travelled for hours to attend.more

A Russian IT worker has been hiding in the woods for a month ahead of mobilization for the war in Ukraine, writes independent portal Mediazona. In the wilderness, the programmer has two tents: one for sleeping, the other for working.more