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Chancellor’s tax giveaways mean ‘painful’ £60bn spending cuts, IFS warnsThe government must slash spending by £60bn and risk political turmoil to get debt under control unless it abandons plans for lower taxes, a leading economic think tank has warnedKwasi Kwarteng must reverse his tax-cutting plans or impose a “savage” £60bn austerity hit to public services, experts and rebel Tories have warned.Britain is set for recession until 2024, forcing the chancellor to abandon his mini-Budget giveaways or make a “painful” public sector cut of 15 per cent in order to get debt under control, the Institute of Fiscal Studies found.
Electric car charging in just 5 minutes achieved with ‘unprecedented’ Nasa techNew technology is capable of delivering 4.6 times the current of the fastest electric car chargers on the marketAn experimental cooling technique developed by Nasa engineers for use on the International Space Station has been adapted for electric cars to massively reduce the time it takes to charge their batteries.
Thames Water billed London pensioner for 1m cups of teaA bedridden 98-year-old woman was sent a water bill which said she had consumed the equivalent of one million cups of tea in six months.
Liverpool hotel relists £255 room for £1,988 after cancelling Eurovision fan's bookingEurovison fans hoping to travel to Liverpool have had their original hotel bookings cancelled - only for the hotel to advertise the room for hundreds of pounds more, ITV News can reveal.One fan told ITV News he had his £250 room cancelled and had seen it being advertised for £1,988 - a move which experts say is legal.Liverpool was named as Eurovision host city last week, standing in for 2022 winners Ukraine.
Wallace and Gromit among familiar faces on Royal Mail stampsWallace and Gromit, Morph and Shaun The Sheep are to adorn a new selection of Royal Mail stamps.It is hoped the Aardman Animations characters will "bring a smile to everyone's face", the postal service company said.Some of the most celebrated characters created by the Bristol-based firm feature on the set of eight stamps.Other fan favourites include Feathers McGraw, Timmy, Robin, Frank The Tortoise and Rocky and Ginger.The stamps are available to pre-order and will be on general sale from 19 October.
Watch: Larry the Cat chases off a fox outside Number 10In the dark of night, cameras picked up Larry the Cat acting as No 10's enforcer by sending a fox packing.Both animals were in Downing Street, but it appeared Larry wasn't interested in guests and slowly marched the fox backwards, over a railing and into a bush. When the fox wouldn't leave, Larry then leapt into the bushes, forcing the fox to flee down the street.
One in three Britons will cut holiday spending as living costs riseOne in three holidaymakers will cut back on spending next year due to the cost of living crisis, according to travel industry research.The travel association Abta said a strong recovery in demand for travel this year was expected to continue next year, but its own surveys suggested people would opt for cheaper trips and cut back on spending money.
‘Absolutely heartbreaking’: British man stranded in Greece after suffering five heart attacks on his birthdayA pub owner who suffered five heart attacks on his birthday while holidaying in Greece is “lucky to be alive” but is now bedridden at a hospital in the country weeks later.He will “hopefully be flying home in three days” according to his wife.Patrick “Patch” Kettleborough, 38, from Bolsover near Chesterfield, has not been able to return to the UK since he suffered two major and three small heart attacks less than a day after arriving in Malia, Crete, on Friday, September 23.
One in three Britons will cut holiday spending as living costs rise
London’s ‘execution economy’: grisly exhibition charts 5,000 public deaths It used to be said that London’s streets were paved in gold but in reality they were running in blood – the blood of tens of thousands of people executed by the state for crimes ranging from treason to petty theft.Over 700 years, public executions in the capital – often intended as a deterrent against criminal activity – were watched by vast crowds, creating an “execution economy” built on a thirst for grisly details and a physical hunger born of hours of anticipation.By the end of the 18th century, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death. London’s courts ordered the deaths of more people than courts in the rest of the country combined.No spot in the City of London is more than 500 metres from a place where gallows once stood, according to the exhibition. People were confronted with the decaying bodies of executed criminals hanging in gibbet cages, traitors’ heads on spikes over London Bridge and body parts displayed on city gates.Methods of execution went far beyond hanging. Traitors were hung, drawn and quartered – dragged from prison to the execution site, hanged until nearly dead, then castrated, disembowelled, beheaded and cut into quarters.Members of the nobility were often simply beheaded, out of respect for their high status. Burning to death was the standard punishment for heresy, aimed at striking fear into people who questioned the teaching of the church. Boiling to death was rare, and usually reserved for poisoners.
QuoteLondon’s ‘execution economy’: grisly exhibition charts 5,000 public deaths Traitors were hung, drawn and quartered – dragged from prison to the execution site, hanged until nearly dead, then castrated, disembowelled, beheaded and cut into quarters.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/11/londons-execution-economy-grisly-exhibition-charts-5000-public-deathsAnd if that didn't kill them, the fiends played them a Des O'Connor album.
London’s ‘execution economy’: grisly exhibition charts 5,000 public deaths Traitors were hung, drawn and quartered – dragged from prison to the execution site, hanged until nearly dead, then castrated, disembowelled, beheaded and cut into quarters.
Buckingham Palace reveals date of coronation of King Charles and crowning of CamillaTHE King’s coronation will be held on Saturday, May 6 next year, with the Queen Consort being crowned alongside Charles, Buckingham Palace has announced. Charles III will be anointed with holy oil, receive the orb, coronation ring and sceptre, be crowned with the majestic St Edward’s Crown and blessed during the historic ceremony.
One of the things I've noticed in bars on Kef (as well as other places)... the customers may be predominantly 'mature' but the staff ain't. So customers are subjected to 'music' they'd ordinarily avoid like the plague (or being hung, drawn and quartered)
Police release names and photos of alleged child rapistsPolice have named and released a photograph of the 53-year-old shopkeeper accused of repeatedly raping and pimping out a 12-year-old girl.The man, identified as Ilias Michos... allegedly raped the girl several times between April and August and also arranged for 213 men, whom he met online, to sexually abuse her.
Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis has expelled from his municipal faction the wife of Ilias Michos, the 53-year-old shopkeeper accused of raping and pimping a 12-year-old girl.Media reported on Tuesday that the grandmother of the 12-year-old victim said that Michos’ wife had offered her family 10,000 euros in an attempt to cover up the case.
Property developer ‘cut woman’s head off in row about money then dumped body 250 miles away’Osteopath Jemma Mitchell, 38, is accused of murdering 67-year-old Mee Kuen Chong in a row over money
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