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Plummeting inflation to keep Angus rent increase pegged back to 2% for 2021/22 © Alf Jonsson/imageBROKER/Shutters Tumbling inflation during the pandemic is set to see a lower than usual rise in Angus Council house rents. Housing chiefs are recommending a 2% rise for 2021/22 in a plan going before communities councillors on Tuesday. It would take the average weekly Angus council house rent to £72.28. The proposal follows the pattern of a Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus 1% increase which councillors have applied in recent years. But with the inflation rate remaining low, it means the planned ...

Sweden's king: 'We have failed' to manage the coronavirus pandemic Joel Gehrke © Provided by Washington Examiner Sweden’s idiosyncratic approach to managing the coronavirus has “failed,” according to the nation’s monarch. "I think we have failed,” Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf said during a year-end television program. “We have a large number who have died, and that is terrible.” Sweden’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic was characterized by a refusal to issue mandatory lockdown orders that made the Scandinavian nation an outlier from much of Europe and ...