Changes to food-related benefits for parents spark real concern

“Even if ships now have safe passage, tankers are in the wrong place, oil production/refining facilities need to get up to full capacity, and questions over the cost and availability of insurance for ships traversing the Strait will remain,” he said.

The arguments playing out in Moerdijk echo wider dilemmas across the Netherlands. The country is densely populated, and has long struggled to balance competing demands on a finite area of land – housing, farming, nature, transport, industry, and now the infrastructure needed to support large-scale renewable energy projects.

Households are paying hundreds of pounds a year more on average than before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 started the energy crisis. Bills have gone up by about 70% compared with the pre-crisis norm, according to industry data. That means unpaid bills and charges have shot up. Energy UK estimates total debt to…

Ethan Saunders,Meirand Richard Price,West Midlands BBC Michelle Swift, director of Meir Matters, says they previously ran a similar scheme with slow cookers Air fryers are to be given out free by a community group that has been teaching people how to cook as part of a scheme to help them eat more healthily. Meir Matters…

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,…

Japanese brewer Sapporo says it will move some beer production from Canada to the US after new tariffs on Canadian beer took effect on Tuesday. The move follows the introduction of a 50% tariff on beer imported from Canada. For companies shipping beer across the border, that means significantly higher costs. Chief strategy officer Rieko…