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as the party reels from a bruising week and falling poll numbers. king charles will now not be at next month's climate change conference in egypt following reports that prime minister liz truss "advised" him not to attend. one of the world's worst stadium disasters. at least 125 people have died in a stampede at an indonesian football match after police tear—gassed pitch invaders. football is by far the number one sport in this country and everybody loves it in this country so it's very difficult to see a future without it. theyjust have to get to the bottom of what happened, it sh...

where they are, let's keep them high to show financial markets that we are serious about fighting inflation and wait until it comes down before we loosen. of course the criticism here is that, and the bank's own analysis shows that, that it takes 1.5 years for the full effect of interest rate increases to ripple through the economy, so we might well be in a situation where we have kept rates very high for quite a while and that is really pummelling the economy, we are getting low or even negative growth and inflation is even below target. so it's understandable why the bank of englan...

Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams, who is a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, has demanded...

The amount of families that have needed to access this is unbelievable. benefit levels matter more in cities like sunderland as deprivation levels are three times higher than the england average, yet recent government policy has consistently cut their value. increases in benefit levels have not kept pace with inflation in nine of the past 12 years. that doesn'tjust mean those receiving the payments are poorer, but also means local economies with high levels of welfare recipients have less money as well. the local citizens advice office is busier than ever as people search, often in vain, for h...

0ne spending decision might be for benefits to increase in line with earnings — which means around 5% — rather than inflation — which is currently around 10%. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports from sunderland now on how individuals and communities could be affected. every second day nicky telford has to spend five hours on this kidney dialysis machine, and will do so for the rest of his life. i need this machine to keep me alive. his illness means he isn't suitable for an organ donation, but his illness isn't his only concern. right now i'm sitting here now shiver...