Crackdown on fraudsters exposes nearly £2billion of false benefits claims and overpayments The National Fraud Initiative matches data with public and private sector bodies It has identified £245 million of incorrect payments in the past two years alone The abuses range from housing benefits to disabled parking badges By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 01:31 BST, 19 … Read more
Ellie Goulding has admitted she loves living apart from her art dealer husband Caspar Jopling. The couple have been happily married since tying the knot 11 months ago, and had been spending lockdown together isolating in Oxfordshire. However, their living situation recently changed as The Mirror reports that Ellie, 33, moved to London while Caspar, … Read more
We are much worse off from losing benefits since I began drawing my state pension – can I stop taking it? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:35 BST, 29 June 2020 | Updated: 07:35 BST, 29 June 2020 I have just started receiving my state pension. Before this my … Read more
Couples who share a bed get better sleep resulting in improved mental health, memory and problem-solving skills, according the to results of a new study. In German experiments, couples sleeping together were shown to have longer and less disrupted periods of rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep – the fourth stage of sleep, associated with vivid … Read more
A mother has revealed what happened to her body when she gave up coffee, and the effects she noticed on her physical and mental health. Olivia White, 30, from Melbourne said she only started drinking coffee seven years ago when she had her first child, but it quickly became her ‘life’ as she said she … Read more
The ex-husband of benefits mother-of-12 Cheryl Prudham was chased and beaten during a ‘vicious’ 2am knife ambush which he claimed involved machetes. Robert Prudham, who fathered six children with reality TV star Cheryl, nicknamed ‘The Queen of Benefits’, was lured into the ambush to discuss a dispute over a car. But when he arrived at … Read more
The ex-husband of benefits mother-of-13 Cheryl Prudham was chased and beaten during a ‘vicious’ 2am knife ambush which he claimed involved machetes. Robert Prudham, who fathered six children with reality TV star Cheryl, nicknamed ‘The Queen of Benefits’, was lured into the ambush to discuss a dispute over a car. But when he arrived at … Read more
Britain got its first glimpse of the predicted jobs market meltdown yesterday as stark figures showed the number claiming out-of-work benefits had soared to almost three million. And the statistics also revealed that the total on company payrolls had slumped by more than 600,000. The number claiming either Jobseekers’ Allowance or Universal Credit more than doubled … Read more
‘I don’t have a boob to my name when I’m not pregnant’: Vogue Williams is relishing the benefits of motherhood as she awaits the birth of second child By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 16:54 BST, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 17:47 BST, 4 June 2020 She is awaiting the arrival of her second child … Read more
For a while it seemed to many of us that the nation just might be on the point of mutiny over the Government’s failure to get a grip on the crisis. Not enough testing. Not enough masks and gowns. Not enough information. Treated as children by a government that either had no strategy for coming … Read more