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'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes

Robert Palmer, executive director at Tax Justice UK, says Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered a 'cut and run' Budget which will spell more agony for public services

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the public should have been given a budget offering a 'glimmer of hope' - but instead there's just more of the same from the Tories

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warns that "zombie" Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has put forward a "deeply cynical" budget while public services are on their knees

'The fight has gone out of Jeremy Hunt and the Tories, that lightweight Budget a wave of white flag. It’s as if the battered Conservatives are surrendering after four election wins'

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces an NI tax giveaway and non-dom tax U-turn at the Budget in a desperate attempt to turn around the Tories' dire ratings in the polls

As Jeremy Hunt prepares to announce what could be the last budget before a general election is called, we hope it goes better than this Olympic blunder where he almost whacked a sporting crowd with a bell

As the Chancellor considers imposing cuts to pay for tax giveaways in the Budget, a TUC poll of public sector workers found almost 40% are considering leaving their professions

The 2p cut in National Insurance is unlikely to woo voters ahead of the next general election - with those earning under £27,000 still losing out from the changes

Cruises on the iconic Norfolk Broads are being threatened by record-breaking rainfall which is making it difficult for some riverboats to pass under an historic bridge

Leaving a pensioner suffering in his hospital bed and having to call 999 just to get the most basic attention is the latest symbol of the decay and ruin the Tories are visiting on our NHS

Ahead of the Budget, figures show that household incomes have risen significantly slower under the Conservatives than when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were in No10

Ahead of the Budget this week, unions representing millions of stretched frontline workers warn the Chancellor staff face 'intolerable pressure' and are quitting in their droves

TUC also warns of the risk of a disaster similar to the Post Office Horizon scandal if workers do not get a say in how machines are rolled out

Rochdalians will soon realise their new MP cares more about himself than their town - he stands accused of baiting the Jewish community, siding with the Kremlin on the Ukraine war and defending regimes like Iran

A video shows how the man runs after the public bus and jumps on it in Barranquilla in Colombia's Atlantico Department because he believes his girlfriend is cheating on him

The tax is likely to hit the poorest the hardest as they spend proportionately more on insurance such as home and motor cover, said the Association of British Insurers

Labour’s Angela Rayner will pledge to give communities the power to make decisions on skills training, housing and planning as she speaks at the Convention of the North

The group said pay for customer assistants would increase from £10.90 an hour to £12 an hour from April 1

Ahead of the Budget next week, a poll found that three-quarters of people either want taxes to stay the same or be increased so there is enough money for public services

Chester's Flip Out trampoline park saw a total of 270 people injured whilst open, 11 of which resulted in broken backs and prompted owners David Shuttleworth and Matthew Melling to be prosecuted

New figures released by the National Audit Office show the staggering increase in the overall cost of Universal Credit is largely down to inflation and the delayed timetable

May Ashford, from North Shore, died from an operable brain tumour after doctors at Royal Preston Hospital in Blackpool failed to properly monitor her scan results

A World War 2 bomb found in a Plymouth garden was successfully detonated earlier this week, with footage of the explosion now circulating after residents returned to their homes

A study by the TUC found that teachers topped a list of those putting in the most unpaid overtime at more than four hours a week, costing them an estimated £15,000 in lost earnings on average