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
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
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
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
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
British government ministers are being taken to court by a body chaired by the former leader of the Conservatives in the EU parliament, over allegations the government is breaking the law on EU citizens’ rights post-Brexit.more
More than one in 10 Dutch households has more than €100,000 in savings, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported. The Dutch saved nearly €362 billion last year, €32 billion more than in 2020.more
38 percent of employed Poles are actively looking for a new employer, and 57 percent of those looking for a new job are motivated by low wages, according to yesterday's information from Pracuj.pl's "Jobs in Times of Change" survey.more
The survey, conducted by insurance company Pronova BKK, shows that most Germans choose to go to work despite illness. This is the case even in the case of a coronavirus infection, the Spiegel daily portal wrote on Monday.more
The number of children arriving at school hungry has risen dramatically in the last six months, with many teachers reporting a worrying rise in pupils stealing to eat, according to a survey of teachers in England.
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