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Cost of living crisis
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- The Telegraph
Letters: Local authorities must answer for the dangerous state of Britain’s roads
SIR – Joanna Dakin (Letters, May 30) is right: quite apart from the failure of local authorities to address the pothole problem, this is now being exacerbated by their negligence in keeping white lines and yellow box junctions in a condition that enables road safety.
- The Guardian
Why it’s not quite back to the 70s with talk of food price controls
Statutory caps were brought in under Heath, this time the government wants a voluntary store scheme to meet Sunak’s pledge to halve inflation
- The Telegraph
Asda boss criticises Sunak’s ‘clumsy’ plan to cap food prices
The chairman of Asda has hit out at “clumsy” plans by ministers to impose price caps on supermarkets amid fears that soaring grocery inflation is becoming entrenched.
- The Guardian
The Guardian view on the pandemic: forgotten, but not gone
Editorial: The World Health Organization has said that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency. But its impact will be felt for years
- Evening Standard
Sadiq Khan under pressure from his own side to expand Ulez scrappage scheme
Four Labour MPs and two borough leaders have in recent days called for the scheme’s eligibility criteria to be widened
- The Guardian
A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again
Never mind that the DWP itself found that some disabled people can’t afford food or heating, politicians and the media need scapegoats, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
- The Guardian
Almost 800 UK mortgage deals pulled as concerns mount over interest rate rises
Number of residential deals down by almost 7% in a week, in echo of crisis that followed Liz Truss mini-budget
- The Telegraph
AI giant gatecrashes Apple and Amazon’s $1 trillion club
Nvidia has become the world’s first chipmaker to reach a market value of $1 trillion (£800bn), as its shares surged on the back of booming demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.
- Evening Standard
Shoppers furious as Lurpak slashes size of butter by 20 per cent
The packs have shrunk from 250g to 200g, despite the price of butter rising by 15 per cent over the past year
- The Guardian
‘They call me Captain Killjoy’: working as a lifeguard in badly behaved Britain
People used to be grateful for our efforts to keep them safe. Now they accuse us of ‘sitting around staring at the water’