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New HMRC service announced for workers to take control of their tax affairs

Workers are set to take control of their tax affairs as the government today (21 July 2025) announces a new online Pay As You Earn (PAYE) service for around 35 million UK taxpayers as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sets out more than 50 measures to transform the UK’s tax and customs system.

The new online service for all PAYE taxpayers will make it simpler and easier to check and update their income, allowances, reliefs and expenses, and will be available via their Personal Tax Account or through the HMRC app.

This service forms part of HMRC’s Transformation Roadmap...

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Death of public sector grants will damage people and communities

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Posted: Fri, 02/05/2016 - 10:17pm

As Local Authorities finalise budgets, a new campaign calls for a halt to the dangerous decline in grant funding by public bodies to charities and community groups.

Available data on public sector grants shows that grants declined from £6 billion in 2003 to £2.2 billion in 2013, and are likely to have even declined further since then.

If the decline continues at the current rate, grants will have all but disappeared by the next General Election, having been largely replaced by short-term, inflexible and bureaucratic contracts.

Debra Allcock-Tyler, Chief Executive of...

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Sir Terry Wogan dies after short illness

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Posted: Sun, 01/31/2016 - 9:00am

Sir Terry Wogan has died his family said today.

He had been battling cancer and was 77.

Sir Terry who presented a weekly show on Radio 2, had a presenting career spanning more than 50 years, from his chatshow Wogan on BBC1 to the Eurovision Song Contest and Blankety Blank.

In 1969, he began a daily show on Radio 1 and 2, taking over the morning show on Radio 2 three years later.

He presented this until 1984, shortly before starting his thrice-weekly chatshow Wogan on BBC1, which ran for the next seven years.

He returned to Radio 2 in 1993 as host of...

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Tributes paid to man killed in Devon crash

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Posted: Thu, 01/28/2016 - 3:16pm

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man died following a collision near Barnstaple.

John Spurling (pictured), 58, from Barnstaple, who was driving the car invovled and was the only occupant in the vehicle, died at the scene.

The car collided with a hedge and rolled on the B3232 between Charlacottt Cross and Prospect Corner near Newton Tracey at around 11.30am on Sunday 24 January.

The car involved was a blue and red DRK, a two-seated and three-wheeler open-top vehicle. No other vehicles were involved in the collision.

John’s family have paid tribute...

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Search for missing dog Barney who fled fatal crash

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Posted: Wed, 01/27/2016 - 8:04am

Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses after a fatal road traffic collision on the A374 at Torpoint in which a woman pensioner was killed on Monday evening, January 25, 2016.

The collision occurred at around 5.15pm near to Anthony House when the pedestrian 72-year-old Jennifer Lowden, from Torpoint, was involved in a collision with a red Nissan Micra car.

Ms Lowden was treated at the scene by air ambulance paramedics, but died a short time later.

Police would like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the collision or been in the area of the A374 at the...

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Search is on to find Britain's best volunteers

Gabby Logan and Together Mutual Insurance search for Britain’s ‘Community Initiative of the Year’ and ‘Community Hero of the Year’ celebrating local volunteers with national prizes of £25,000 per category Today, TV favourite Gabby Logan launches ‘Britain Has Spirit’, a new campaign searching for Britain’s best individual and group volunteers. Gabby is calling on the British public to nominate their local shining stars, who selflessly give up time volunteering for nothing in return. Recent research of 2,000 Brits1 reveals that our sense of community is declining, with nearly half of those...

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£5m for councils to stop rogue landlords

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Posted: Fri, 01/22/2016 - 6:48am

Councils across the country are to receive a £5m cash boost to tackle rogue landlords in their area, Housing Minister Brandon Lewis announced today.

Forty eight councils will share the funding so they can take on the irresponsible landlords that force tenants to live in squalid and dangerous properties, making their lives a misery.

The cash will also allow councils to root out more ‘beds in sheds’. Since 2011 nearly 40,000 inspections have taken place in properties with over 3,000 landlords facing further enforcement action or prosecution.

The funding will allow...

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Man drowns trying to rescue dog from sea

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Posted: Fri, 01/01/2016 - 6:01pm

A man has died after trying to rescue his dog from the sea on New Year's Day.

The emergency sevices were alerted to people in difficulty in the water off Portmellon near Mevagissey at around 11am.

Two people were subsequently recovered from the sea.

One was recovered by a member of the public and brought to shore, the second person was recovered from the sea by the Coastguard helicopter and was taken to hospital.

The RNLI Lifeboat from Fowey and Mevagissey Coastguard Rescue Team were also in attendance.

A spokesman for Devon & Cornwall Police...

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Landed gentry could help solve housing crisis

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Posted: Thu, 12/31/2015 - 7:14am

Landowners behind England’s 5,000 largest rural estates should be called upon to release land for affordable housing, according to The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

The RICS Rural Policy Paper, published today, sets out a number of recommendations as to how central and local Government could better manage rural land and support countryside communities, including offering measures to encourage large landowners to release space on their estates for eight or more affordable houses. This might include partial inheritance tax exemptions, allowing heirs to avoid paying...

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Let yourself come to the fore at Christmas

It’s time for your true self to come to the fore, and never is this more important than at Christmas.

Of course, making time for yourself and allowing you to love yourself may seem a strange concept at Christmas; traditionally a time for thinking about others and particularly those less fortunate than ourselves. So it’s understandable if you’re feeling a little conflicted by this advice then, but please don’t be; truly loving yourself this Christmas isn’t the same thing as being selfish . In fact, in many ways, it’s the complete opposite.

Allow us to explain…

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