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Pension system reform in the upcoming Budget, related to salary sacrifice, could “lead to a reduction in take home pay for millions”, Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned.Every MP in Parliament has been contacted by pension industry professionals to highlight risks associated with altering current salary sacrifice schemes for retirement contributions. The Society of Pension Professionals distributed a briefing document entitled “A sacrifice too far?” which outlines concerns about possible government reforms to these arrangements.This intervention from the organisation’s comes as speculation mounts that ministers might target salary sacrifice mechanisms to generate savings in the forthcoming Budget on November 26. Pension reform…
Jon Ironmonger Investigations, EastFacebookRicky Butcher says he feels let down by the police response to the attack on himPolice are reviewing whether a stabbing in September that left a man with serious facial injuries is connected to the recent attacks on a train near Huntingdon.Ricky Butcher, 35, is understood to have been waiting for a taxi outside the Fletton Club in Peterborough with a group of people on 27 September when a man appeared and confronted him with a knife.Cambridgeshire Police said detectives were considering if the attack may be connected to a mass stabbing on a train near Huntingdon,…
Emily Britton said local people “don’t feel like you can plan anything”Work on a major new bypass aimed of alleviating a village’s traffic issues has left residents living nearby dealing with “a lot of stress” and unable to make plans due to the congestion it has caused.Work on the A57 link roads at Mottram in Longdendale on Tameside, which aims to improve journey times between Manchester and Sheffield, began in 2024 and is due to be completed in 2028.However, those living in the neighbouring villages of Hollingworth and Tintwistle, which will not be bypassed, said the upheaval meant even small…
Manchester City players including Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw, Lauren Hemp, Khiara Keating and Kerstin Casparij share their confessions, including things they got away with growing up, their mid-game thoughts and what football rule they would like to change. Watch live coverage of Everton v Manchester City on Sunday 9 November from 14:30 BST on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website & app.WATCH: ‘Defenders work harder than attackers’ – Man Utd Confession Cam’
“Serious questions” have been raised after an NHS hospital wrongly declared a newborn baby to be dead.The baby was found to be alive when she was transferred to the mortuary at the scandal-ridden John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.The hospital is being reviewed under a national inquiry into NHS maternity care, and this case is one of dozens of alleged failures. An investigation by the New Statesman and Channel 4 News spoke to 24 mothers who were left traumatised by the care they received, or whose babies died or were harmed due to alleged failings by the hospital since 2009.One such…
A man at the centre of an organised crime network has been caught on camera telling undercover reporters how he can help to evade fines of up to £60,000 for employing illegal workers. UK editor Ed Thomas later confronted Kardos Mateen, also known as Shaxawan, about his claims.Read the investigation in full.
Both literally and figuratively, you never know which Chelsea is going to turn up. Chelsea have lurched from negative to positive throughout this campaign, playing well against bigger teams but often not as well against so-called lesser opposition. In big games, the likes of Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, and Garnacho usually start. However, Maresca is managing the fitness of all three of those players , as he also is with returning striker Liam Delap. In addition, key players like Cole Palmer and Levi Colwill are injured. There are further mitigating factors behind the extreme nature of Maresca’s rotation, given Chelsea…
Police are bracing for a crime surge on Britain’s streets within a year if the Government’s sentencing reforms go ahead. The changes proposed in the Sentencing Bill will include a number of shorter prison sentences slashed and some criminals released early.Policing chiefs are preparing for thousands of criminal offences in the aftermath of the planned reforms as more offenders are loose on Britain’s streets instead of behind bars. The Government has said the proposals included in the legislation will help tackle the overcrowding crisis plaguing prisons across the country.Policing chiefs are preparing for thousands of criminal offences to be committed…
Getty ImagesThere could be an untapped resource under everyone’s feet in Wales’ capital that could lead to cheaper heating bills Every home in Wales’ capital could be heated using water that lies below the city, pioneering research has found. The activity of traffic, businesses, and people on Cardiff’s streets has caused what has been described as “thermal pollution”, meaning water underground is unusually warm – around 12 degrees. This has been revealed through 234 boreholes drilled by the council in the 1990s to monitor groundwater levels during the construction of the Cardiff Bay Barrage. Since 2014, these have been used…
Craig Bellamy laughs when asked about Rubin Colwill, the 23-year-old forward currently impressing for Cardiff City.”He’s big for you, isn’t he?,” Bellamy asks the reporter who brings up his name.Not that Bellamy is not a fan of the nine-cap midfielder, to the contrary. However, Colwill has not always featured in Bellamy’s Wales squads despite playing a starring role in Cardiff’s League One promotion bid and their quarter-final EFL Cup run.”Rubin is able, there’s still one or two bits that we need more from, but he’s capable,” insists Bellamy who has plenty of other reasons to be a regular at Cardiff…