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The number of people hunting for jobs in Britain surged in June at the fastest rate since the height of the Covid pandemic, industry figures show, amid growing business fears over tax rises and the economic outlook.more

People have been urged to beware of scams linked to winter fuel payments after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) received more than 15,000 reports of bogus activity last month. HMRC received a total of 15,100 reports of bogus activity in June, with fraudsters targeting vulnerable people using texts and phishing websites.more

The Central Statistical Office estimates that in 2060 there will be 30.9 million of us. If not migration, then at present there is no other way to stop the depopulation of our country, said Professor Piotr Szukalski of the University of Łódź.more

Children in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has said, as she insisted the two-child benefit limit must be scrapped.more

The number of foreigners performing work in Poland at the end of January amounted to 1 million 45 thousand people, 4.5 per cent more year-on-year, the CSO reported.more

The cost of the state pension triple lock is forecast to be three times higher by the end of the decade than its original estimate, according to the government's official forecaster.more

The Notting Hill Carnival cannot be fixed if safety is at risk, Metropolitan Police boss Sir Mark Rowley has said. Another Met officer said “everyone accepts” that the event is unsafe and questioned why it would be allowed to go ahead in such circumstances.more

The Government's welfare system revamp could force 150,000 individuals below the poverty line, including those who receive universal credit (UC) and personal independence payments (PIP). Sir Keir Starmer is facing strong pushback on his welfare reforms from those within his own party, with a humiliating rejection of the proposed bill last week.more

The thorny topic of MPs’ pay and funding will be debated by randomly selected members of the public at a new citizens’ forum, as parliament’s watchdog said it was launching an “open and honest conversation” about what democracy is worth.more

An increase in babies born to fathers over 60 helped trigger the first increase in the number of births in England and Wales since 2021. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed there were 594,677 live births in 2024, up 0.6% from 2023.more

Almost 2,200 dog attacks were recorded on Royal Mail staff in the UK last year, the organisation has said. The highest number of incidents occurred in the Sheffield and Portsmouth post codes, with 66 and 60 attacks respectively.more

The UK will be the first country in the world to use an AI system to analyse hospital databases and catch potential safety scandals early, the Government has announced. The technology can identify patterns of abuse, serious injuries, deaths or other incidents that can slip through the net.more

Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, President-elect Karol Nawrocki and Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski found themselves on the podium in the trust survey conducted by IBRiS on behalf of Onet. Fourth place went to outgoing President Andrzej Duda, and fifth to Confederation politician Sławomir Mentzen.more

The government will test the UK’s Emergency Alert System again in 2025, causing everyone’s phone to make an alarm sound.more

Homelessness in the United States is a serious problem, and the situation is getting worse, says attorney Maria Foscarinis, who has been fighting for the rights of people in the homeless crisis for years. In recent years, the number of people living in cars in the United States has been growing.more

Struggling households owe billions of pounds in unpaid council tax, but bills are expected to keep rising in the years ahead. Newly-published figures show £6.6bn is owed to local authorities in England, with an extra £642m having been added to those arrears in the year to April.more

In the survey, as many as 40% of Poles declare that they will spend this year's holiday exclusively in Poland. This is more than twice as many as a year earlier, despite the fact that average accommodation prices are rising.more

The extreme poverty rate in Poland in 2024 was 5.2%, which means a decrease of 1.4 percentage points year-on-year - the Central Statistical Office reported today.more

Sharp rises in rates of anxiety, depression and other disorders have led to one in four young people in England having a common mental health condition, an NHS survey shows, with young women more likely to report them than young men.more

Age and education have displaced class as the main demographic dividing line in British politics, according to a leading study on trends in public views. The British Social Attitudes survey, which has run annually since 1983, found that traditional class-based support for parties had diminished.more

Defence was also a key theme of the report - and researchers found about 40% of Britons support spending more money on weapons and troops.more

University graduates in the UK are facing the toughest job market since 2018 as employers pause hiring and use AI to cut costs, figures suggest. The number of roles advertised for recent graduates is down 33% compared with last year and is at the lowest level in seven years, according to the job search site Indeed.more

Financial services company SunLife has found that a funeral in London costs 27% more than the average for the UK, which was £4,285 in 2024.more

The majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, according to “deeply concerning” projections showing child obesity rates are set to worsen across 90% of the country. More than a third of primary school children (36%) are already overweight or obese, figures from the government’s national child measurement programme show.more

Nearly nine years on from the narrow Brexit referendum result, which led to the UK leaving the European Union, most Britons want to see the UK return to the EU. A YouGov poll highlights the extent to which the UK public is “Bregretful” about the outcome of the vote, which ended David Cameron’s term as prime minister. more