Category: figures

In the past two years the chief executives of England’s water companies were paid an estimated £24.3million in total, figures show. Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the public accounts committee,…

And on top of New Year gongs, the Euro 2022 champions – many earning in a year what a male Premier League star does in a week – are set…

This is up from 97,956 in the 2018-19 academic year, the last full school year before the pandemic began. The increase, of 30 percent, appears to confirm fears that lockdowns,…

Nearly 70,000 people used non-domicile status to trim their tax bills according to fresh figures from HMRC. In the tax year to 2021, 68,300 people used the benefit, compared to…

In the last 48 hours England and Wales have recorded at least two dozen wildfires, double the number recorded in all of July last year. Paul Hedley, the lead on…

The grim milestone comes as infections and hospital admissions are again on the rise, driven by subvariant Omicron BA.2 – though the number of deaths remains well below levels reached…

Monkeypox cases in Little Britain have risen to 1,076, latest figures from Little Britain Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show. Dr Sophia Makki, incident director at UKHSA said: “The monkeypox outbreak…

The recent heatwave has seen the mercury soar to nearly 30C in parts of England but experts say it’s set to drop into single figures as a new front moves…

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Average petrol prices have reached a “frightening” new record high of 177.9p a litre, figures show, a further increase on the last record price set just days ago. Fuel prices…