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Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, growth has averaged almost 10% a year, and more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty. There have also been significant improvements in access to health, education and other services, with the mainland now an…

One of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers has warned that up to 40% of its customers will be in fuel poverty by October unless the Government steps in

Ministers remain unable to decide on ways to help as energy firm boss warns soon 40% could be in fuel poverty

The boss of the UK’s largest energy supplier has warned that 40 per cent of its customers could end up in fuel poverty amid surging costs.

Michael Lewis, the chief executive of E.ON, said that the company was already seeing customers go into arrears and that when prices increase in a few months time they will not be able to manage.

’Some people are at the edge and that will get worse,’ E.ON chief executive says – telling government to act now

THE empty shelves tell their own bleak story. The few tins still standing only serve to highlight the desperate situation facing the many food banks…

Gemma Carlsson earns £456 a month and gets £665 in Universal Credit, but the cost of living crisis means her £400 a month food bill and her £260 energy bills will go up

Mark Steel says Conservative Party MPs would tell someone who finds it hard to live on Universal Credit to stop working in a hospital and run Formula 1 racing instead

The research comes as the cost of living crisis continues to hit families across the region.

The former Tory leader said a raise in benefits would provide a ‘shield’ against the sting of mounting living costs