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Traders will be caught between breaking UK regulations or international rules   Traders will be caught between breaking UK regulations or international rules 

THIS is the shocking moment a raging McDonald’s customer spat at horrified staff and chucked a drink at them. Cops were called to the fast food restaurant after the fuming woman lunged across…

​Boss says bank is putting aside more money for potential defaults linked to cost of living crisisThe boss of Santander UK says the bank is putting aside more money for potential defaults linked to the cost of living crisis after seeing a pickup in customers falling behind on mortgage and loan payments.Mike Regnier told the Guardian that he was keeping a close eye on the “strain and pressure” facing customers as a result of the cost of living crisis, which has made it harder for some households to keep up with rising food and energy bills and financial commitments such…

​Files on Russian intelligence officer and ‘lady-killer’ Eugene Ivanov littered with reports of drunkennessEugene Ivanov, the Russian spy at the centre of the 1963 Profumo scandal, was a philandering alcoholic whose weakness for women and drink M15 hoped to exploit to get him to defect, but who ended up toppling the Macmillan government by chance, according to newly released intelligence files.He arrived at the Russian embassy in London as assistant naval attache in 1960 but M15 suspected he was an intelligence officer, partly because he didn’t seem to know much about ships and also he carried an umbrella. Continue reading… 

​Analysis of budgets finds rich nations, including UK, ‘exacerbated explosion of economic inequality’Many of the world’s poorest countries have cut health spending during the last two years, sometimes to make debt repayments to rich creditors, according to a report by Oxfam that shows inequality between rich and poor nations worsening during the coronavirus pandemic.Analysis of national budgets across 161 nations found that despite the biggest global health emergency in a century, half of low- and lower-middle-income countries cut health spending, while almost half cut their welfare budgets and almost three-quarters cut education spending. Continue reading… 

​IFS says Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget will leave ministers making serious reductions in public services Kwasi Kwarteng will need to find £60bn of savings by 2026 to fill the gap left by unfunded tax cuts and the costs of extra borrowing triggered by a panicked reaction on international money markets to the chancellor’s “mini-budget”, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.The UK will also struggle to hit the chancellor’s 2.5% growth target, with economic forecasts by the investment bank Citigroup that the IFS uses to underpin its analysis showing the UK will struggle to grow at more than 0.8% on average…

​Ofcom study covers Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and YouTube, all of which have age limits of 13A third of social media users aged between eight and 17 have the online age of an adult because they sign up with a false date of birth, according to new research.The fake age issue means that young users in the UK are at greater risk of being exposed to harmful or adult content, as platforms presume they are older than they in fact are. Continue reading… 

​Experts say loss of 50,000 workers exposes ‘absolute crisis’ facing system still reeling from impact of Covid and BrexitThe social care workforce has shrunk for the first time in almost a decade despite rising demand and bed congestion in hospitals fuelled by a lack of care places.England is projected to need close to 500,000 more care staff by the middle of the next decade, but last year there was a net fall in the workforce of 50,000 people, leaving about 165,000 jobs vacant, according to new figures from Skills for Care. Continue reading… 

Pisces, put past tensions and arguments behind you (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk) Well hello! It seems as if many of us are about to embark on a voyage of personal discovery… and that may just mean someone new in our lives. Yes, that flame you’ve hidden deep down in your soul may be ready to ignite and now warm your heart. Romance, social mingling, even dating may have your heart pounding at the thought of finding ‘the one’. It’s also a time for positive vibes for many of us as we look at home life, plans and getting things done. Tip: Don’t…

​  Rarely out of the news, Royal Mail has been delivering the post to British doorsteps since 1516. Constantly in a battle with growing private competition, it caused uproar by raising first class stamp prices from 46p to 60p, and a second class stamp to 50p from 36p. Rarely out of the news, Royal Mail has been delivering the post to British doorsteps since 1516. Constantly in a battle with growing private competition, it caused uproar by raising first class stamp prices from 46p to 60p, and a second class stamp to 50p from 36p.