Downing Street calls on regulator to investigate petrol price rigging
Allegations of oil price manipulation should be thoroughly investigated as millions of motorists rely on accurate petrol prices, Downing Street said today.

Libor scandal: Was the petrol price rigged too? - T...

Elderly denied NHS care can sue: Ministers will outlaw age discrimination by hospitals | Mail Online

Elderly denied NHS care can sue: Ministers will outlaw age discrimination by hospitals
Those refused operations, test and scans can claim compensation from October
Care...

New Tory Logo

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 19th May 2012 18:02.

*New Tory Logo * Attachment 59 (allaboutFORUMS) Tory ministers met Google chiefs...

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The government has ended a contract with welfare-to-work company A4e after deciding that continuing would be "too great a risk", it has said.
Employment minister Chris Grayling said the Mandatory Work Activity contract to help up to 1,000 jobless people in south-east England...

A number of measures will be introduced to simplify an existing set-up that has been deemed too complicated. The current SEN...

Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said he was determined to introduce radical reforms to disability allowances which could slash the annual cost by £2.24bn.

Around 500,000...

Treasury considers taxing state pensions at source in 'mark two granny tax'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 9th April 2012 17:07.

More misery lies ahead for older people under plans to tax the basic state pension at source in a proposal that has been labelled...

It all stared on 27 Feb 2012, I sent Santander a letter of appropriation and gave them 2 weeks for a reply.

This quickly passed by so I sent them another letter on 12 March 2012, they have had a further 16 days and I have heard nothing from them, not even a letter acknowledging receipt...

More than £20m was wiped off the value of bakery company Greggs on Thursday, following the Government's announcement that all hot takeaway food would be subject to VAT.

Currently, most hot takeaway food such as meals bought from a restaurant or fish and chip shop are subject...

GPs make £162m out of 'ghost' patients: Anger over bill for 2.5m non-existent people

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 23rd February 2012 11:30.

The NHS is paying GPs to look after 2.5million ‘ghost’ patients, ministers admitted last night. Doctors are receiving...

Mental health groups and charities attack plans drawn up by Department for Work and Pensions

Some long-term sick and disabled people face being forced to work unpaid for an unlimited amount of time or have their benefits cut under plans being drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions....

The Big Switch: Households offered chance to 'group buy' cheap gas and electricity by Which?

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 7th February 2012 18:47.

Consumers who are fed up with paying through the nose for gas and electricity are being offered the chance to...

Which? warns of energy smart meter 'fiasco'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 15th January 2012 17:37.

The scheme to install new energy meters in every home in the UK should be halted because of spiralling costs, a consumer campaign group has warned....
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Now UK faces a £5bn bill to bail out Spain... as ministers plan for euro collapse

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 26th November 2011 20:14.

Britain was last night planning for the collapse of the eurozone as Spain weighed up a bailout that could cost UK taxpayers...