[ Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said that Labour will not commit to continuing the Government’s £4bn plans to expand free childcare. The plans, which saw eligible parents of one and two-year-olds offered 30 hours of free childcare a week by 2025, were first announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his 2023 spring Budget. … Read more
[ KOTA BHARU: Kelantan Education Department officers will go to the field and to students’ homes to ensure no school dropouts, including among the Orang Asli community. Its director, Datuk Mohd Zamri Abdul Aziz, said that JPN will take action through the district education office and the school if students fail to attend school one … Read more
[ No 10 played down the prospect of inheritance tax cuts but did not rule out a change to stamp duty charges in the upcoming Budget. Downing Street and the Treasury refused to be drawn on calls for tax handouts ahead of the Budget despite pressure from MPs to use the statement to offer pre-election … Read more
[ Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt fired the starting gun on the 2024 general election campaign on Wednesday by announcing the date for what is expected to be a tax-cutting Budget. The Chancellor is likely to unveil pre-election giveaways in his set-piece event on 6 March, in a bid to win over voters whose finances … Read more
[ Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are plotting a spending trap for Labour by dictating the amount of money available for public services before the next election. The move would force Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to decide before the election how much they want to allocate to each department and where they would … Read more
[ Surrounded by moorland, Marsden in West Yorkshire is often overshadowed by better-known villages, such as Haworth and Saltaire. Yet it has a similarly Gothic appeal, helped by its 19th-century mills and St Bartholomew’s Church, which has a history dating to the 15th century. There is also an active pagan community that runs events such … Read more
