Local authorities increase council tax bills by up to 5%, but some households can mitigate impact by challenging them or applying for discounts By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 24 April 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 24 April 2021 Cash-strapped local authorities have just increased council tax bills for the year … Read more
White people are fuelling England’s latest surge in coronavirus infections, official data has shown. Cases among white people – who make up 80 per cent of the population – have risen by more than two-and-a-half times in the last fortnight. A Public Health England report found cases soared from 37.3 per 100,000 people to 97 in the … Read more
Priti Patel’s war on cocaine: Home Secretary orders experts to help combat Britain’s spiralling drug use by ‘white males under 30’ Priti Patel has asked Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to focus on issue Home Secretary said increase in use has been driven by white males under 30 Her plea comes after an … Read more
Cases of gout are spiralling at an ‘astonishing’ rate across the world with 41million people now living with the agonising condition – up 7% from 1990 Gout cases soured round the world between 1990 and 2017, new research found It is usually caused by eating lots of red meat and drinking too much alcohol New … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Not a single country is on course to meet targets to reverse spiralling obesity rates by 2025, a damning report has revealed. Countries are ‘worryingly off-track’ to meet World Health Organization targets agreed to by member states, according to the World Obesity Federation (WOF). Research suggests there is a less than a 10 per cent … Read more