All news by author: Graham Hiscott

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Royal Mail's privatisation 'a national disaster' as shareholders make £2billion
A number of fat cat bosses have netted £12million between them since the controversial 2013 sell-off, during which the postal giant’s workforce has plunged by 30,000
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Ed Sheeran and JK Rowling are among Britain’s biggest taxpayers - see list
Each of the individuals or families had to have paid £10million to warrant a place on the Tax List — which also includes gambling queen Denise Coates and high street billionaire Mike Ashley
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ASLEF rail union boss warns of no end to train strikes as talks hit buffers
Mick Whelan, general secretary of train drivers union ASLEF, said it had a “rolling mandate” from members to stage walkouts in a row over pay that has already dragged on for 18 months
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British Gas profits 'set to rocket to more than £800m' as families struggle
British Gas, which has 7.5 million customers, has benefited from industry watchdog Ofgem allowing it to claw back money through energy higher bills
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Warning more than two million people could see their energy cut off this winter
Citizens Advice says many of those battling with the cost will have to disconnect regularly during the coldest months of the year
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Owner of steel giant Tata raked in £3bn profit last year - as 2,800 UK jobs axed
While paying out £1.4billion in dividends, steel giant Tata took £500m from UK taxpayers to build a new arc furnace that won't make up for the 2800 jobs it culled last week
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Tata Steel move to axe 3,000 jobs 'will turn Port Talbot into a ghost town'
Unions have accused the Tories of lavishing vast sums of cash on the site’s owners Tata Steel only for it to go ahead and scrap nearly 3,000 staff - despite a major drive to save the posts
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Train office staff 'discouraged from offering passengers cheapest fares'
Websites such as Trainline promote split fares, which cut travel costs by using more than one ticket for a journey, while most machines do not
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Up to 60,000 workers hounded by taxman in scandal linked to 10 suicides
MPs warned the saga had 'frightening' parallels with the Post Office IT scandal as thousands of workers face crippling tax demands from HMRC over 'loan charges'
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World’s five richest men get even richer and double fortunes to £680billion
Tesla and X chief Elon Musk topped the list of the richest men, who's wealth is estimated to have surged from £19.3billion in March 2020 to £192billion by November
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Warning families could be hit by new price rises after Yemen airstrike
Energy and household bills could soar due to the disruption of ship supplies, while toys, car parts and Australian wine may be delayed in another blow for shoppers
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InterCity 125 trains branded 'death traps' amid calls to pull all from service
When the iconic trains entered service in 1976 it heralded a new era of rail travel in Britain but train drivers’ union ASLEF says a crash late last month exposed failures in the train’s design
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Secretive billionaire boss made £742,000 a day despite gambling firm’s £72m loss
Reclusive billionaire Denise Coates is Britain's richest woman and earned an astonishing £271million in pay despite her gambling company Bet365 making an annual loss of £72million
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Inside Pontins' demise - just 3 left in empire of 30 owned by worst hotel chain
Pontins had over 30 parks in its heyday but now it is down to three after the resort at Ainsdale near Southport in Merseyside was the latest to go, closing without notice this week after it was damaged in Storm Henk
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Petrol prices fell 6p last month - but RAC says they're still too high
The RAC said pump prices should be still lower as the average supermarket margin on fuel was 13p per litre last month which is more than double what it was in 2021
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Mortgage price war ramps up as another major lender slashes rates below 4%
First Direct announced it was reducing rates across its entire range of repayment mortgages from tomorrow (January 5) with the biggest cut on its 10-year fixed rate mortgage
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Fatcat bosses get more money by 1pm today than average worker will earn all year
Big bosses like pharmaceuticals chief Pascal Soriot and weapons manufacturer Charles Woodburn earn over a hundred times more per hour than what an average worker can make in a whole year
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Households water bills set to rise to over £800 a year to 'help new investments'
To help cover the costs of new investments, households could be hit with a staggering 74 per cent increase in water bills amid fury over the privatised woeful track record of pollution and leaks
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Third of Brits live in mouldy homes with health of millions at risk, say figures
A survey by Warm This Winter found that almost a third of people in Britain were living in homes riddled with mould or damp with conditions posing a major risk to their health
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High street carnage forecast as 46,000 stores face financial trouble
'The shopping bonanza many retailers were relying on this Christmas does not seem to have materialised'
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Drones to deliver NHS medication to care homes and GP surgeries in big roll-out
If approved there will be up to 80 drone flights a day going to hospitals and elsewhere in North East England to send frequently-used supplies, from medicines to joint replacement implants
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Outrage as Ofgem allows fuel suppliers to charge more to pay off bad debts
The energy regulator Ofgem is facing criticism for raising its household price cap next year, allowing fuel suppliers to charge more to cover the debt of customers who have fallen behind
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Millions of people living in 'Dickensian' conditions in cold and damp homes
Millions face a bleak Christmas due to their living conditions. People with damp and mould in their homes are more likely to have respiratory problems, infections, allergies or asthma
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Households hammered by record surge in home insurance with prices up 36%
The average of the five cheapest quotes for a buildings and contents policy now stands at £227 - and damage from Storms Babet and Ciara is likely to mean more increases
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Mortgage relief for millions as average 2-year fixed deal falls to six-month low
Mortgage rates surged in the wake of Liz Truss’s bungled mini-Budget last year, and they had already been on the rise after a wave of rate hikes by the Bank of England to cool inflation