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Catch the latest Financial News EventsReeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill, though insiders warn move will be ‘disastrous’Rachel Reeves is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills, sources have told the Guardian, as the...
RMT accepts three-year pay deal for London Underground staff
Agreement that will increase drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027 comes after strike action in SeptemberThe RMT union has accepted a three-year inflation-plus pay deal for London Underground workers, ending the dispute that led to travel chaos in London in September...
MPs ask HMRC to explain child benefit error that froze payments to parents
Letter demands answers after 23,500 families wrongly suspected of fraud when data showed they had left UKMPs are demanding answers from HMRC over a child benefit error in which payments were stopped to 23,500 families as part of an anti-fraud crackdown.Meg Hillier, a...
Rise of the ‘porno-trolls’: how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers
A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privatelyWhen 73-year-old Tom Brown*, a retired police officer from Seattle, received a letter from Comcast, he might...