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Charities and community groups are setting up schemes to ensure discount helps people struggling with soaring bills

It was alleged he breached the privacy of Real Madrid’s Florentino Perez when his construction company ACS was fighting for a seat on Iberdrola’s board in 2009.

Families are being driven into poverty by the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory.

As two million hard-up adults admit going without food for an entire day during the cost of living crisis, the shocking amount of dumped food in parliament has been revealed in an FOI

Sabreen Khalil lost her husband to COVID last year, leaving her to raise seven children alone, but Iraqi government funding to help her and hundreds of thousands of families in poverty is blocked by political stalemate. With politicians deadlocked over forming a new government since an election in October, rival…

Chancellor told failure to act would hit services as poverty, cold and missed meals increase sickness rates

Sabreen Khalil lost her husband to COVID last year, leaving her to raise seven children alone, but Iraqi government funding to help her and hundreds of thousands of families in poverty is blocked by political stalemate.

Squeezed pay has forced too many working people to use food banks, say Labour frontbenchers Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves

In a letter to Boris Johnson, Thangam Debbonaire, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, said the country faces an ‘urgent choice’.

Leaders warn that unless the Government takes action on rising energy prices, fuel poverty will put additional pressure on an already overwhelmed NHS.

New research suggests that Northern Ireland will be the ‘UK region’ worst affected by fuel poverty