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The chancellor should be “bold” in next month’s Budget or risk future spending cuts and tax rises, an influential think tank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is projecting Rachel Reeves will need to find £22bn to make up a shortfall in the government’s finances, and will “almost certainly” have to raise taxes….

A social action charity has welcomed the decision to increase the living wage in Jersey to £15.10 per hour in 2026. The new rate was approved this week and will come into effect at the beginning of January. The living wage is £1.51 higher than Jersey’s minimum wage which is set to increase to £13.59…

Jo Lonsdale and Jane DownsNorth East and Cumbria Investigations BBC Vanessa Corby was quoted £44,000 for a connection to mains electricity Some 2,000 households are thought to be off-grid in the UK, having no access to mains power. With connections quoted at prices up to £478,000, why is it so expensive and why do people…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has acknowledged she is “looking at tax and spending”, ahead of her autumn Budget next month. Reeves said she would “always make sure the numbers add up”, in an interview with Sky news against a backdrop of slow economic growth and mounting government debt. The chancellor has previously hinted at tax rises,…

“Being on the screen, it keeps us looking at the external world. When we go into our internal world and we sort of stare into space, into the middle distance, it allows us to think about the past, it allows us to visualise the future, it predicts creativity.