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  Last year, the chippy only had to fork out around £350 a month for electricity but, as prices have risen, it is now paying up to £1,000 a month. ​Last year, the chippy only had to fork out around £350 a month for electricity but, as prices have risen, it is now paying up to £1,000 a month. 

The highly-publicised fifth chapter returns to Netflix next month.

  Influential MP warns inquiry will ‘collapse’ Johnson premiership Influential MP warns inquiry will ‘collapse’ Johnson premiership 

The Labour Party said tens of thousands of households are suffering ‘because the Conservatives crashed the economy’.

  Roughly 150 MPs are yet to announce who they are backing to become the next Conservative leader and Prime Minister as support for Rishi Sunak keeps growing. ​Roughly 150 MPs are yet to announce who they are backing to become the next Conservative leader and Prime Minister as support for Rishi Sunak keeps growing. 

‘There will be a large number of Conservatives who will refuse as they see it to lay down their integrity to save him and at that moment his premiership will collapse.’

Casting an eye back to the 70s power cuts, we test the conversational gambit for this winter, ‘what’s in your BOB?’ For Steven Dowd, it’s four head torches and a handsaw. For Ian Welsh, a pack of camping freezer slabs and a pair of slippers, and for Ellie Moss, a community gardener in Eltham, a cheering set of battery-operated fairylights. With warnings that the UK could be subject to planned blackouts for the first time in five decades, the question “what’s in your blackout box (or BOB)?” could become as everyday a conversational gambit this winter as bemoaning the British…

Despite encouraging survey, scientists warn of emergence of serious variant, leading to parallel epidemic Britain’s current wave of Covid-19 cases appears to be peaking at a lower level than previous outbreaks of the Omicron variant of the disease, researchers have revealed. The news is encouraging – though scientists have also warned that a further wave of the disease could sweep the nation before the end of the year. “We need to be vigilant and monitor the data with great care, all the time,” said Professor Mark Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University. Continue reading… ​Despite encouraging survey, scientists warn of emergence of…

Chancellor’s fiscal plan by Halloween would be too rushed and ‘irresponsible’, say officials Senior Whitehall officials are concerned that Jeremy Hunt now risks going too far in cutting public spending and should delay the Halloween statement outlining his austerity plans, the Observer has been told. Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, is understood to have been made aware of concerns that the chancellor risks going too far in cutting back spending if he decides to go ahead with a sweeping programme of reductions. Continue reading… ​Chancellor’s fiscal plan by Halloween would be too rushed and ‘irresponsible’, say officialsSenior Whitehall officials are…

A prank gone quite wrong.