National Trust to axe 1,200 paid staff as part of £100million cuts

The National Trust plans to axe 1,200 paid staff to save £100million after coronavirus forced it to shut historic sites The National Trust has lost almost £200million since the start of the pandemic It proposes to cut a fifth of its annual spend including £60million in wages The charity has already saved by furloughing some … Read more

Some 130,000 older married women could be owed up to £100million

Some 130,000 older married women could be owed up to £100million in state pensions after government blunders were exposed Older wives may be owed up to £100million after government blunders exposed Investigation suggests that around 130,000 are receiving less than they should  Some wives were mistakenly reassured they were being paid enough By Ben Wilkinson … Read more

Europe puts 100million on lockdown: Continent’s coronavirus death toll soars towards 2,000

Coronavirus hysteria in Europe rumbles on as Poland’s shut frontiers cause huge traffic jams in Germany and Ukraine – while Serbia and Slovakia went into lockdown and Portugal closed its border with Spain. Popular cities across the Continent – from Spain and Germany to Ukraine and Serbia – resembled ghost towns as residents spooked into … Read more