Parents are being encouraged to claim up to £2,000 a year towards childcare costs, as new data reveals that hundreds of thousands of families are not taking advantage of the available assistance. HM ...

Ministers say they are accepting all but one of the recommendations made so far by public inquiry into the Horizon scandal.

Under the system, for every £8 paid in, the Government adds £2, up to a maximum of £2,000 a year per child under 11 - or £4,000 for disabled children up to 16.

That was until five years ago, when a hospital occupational therapist gave her an unusual prescription: Grow a sunflower. "I'll be honest I'd never planted anything in my life," Ms Hough said. "But I ...

As bank impersonation scams surge, you can protect yourself by understanding the key signs that you're talking to a fraudster.

Claire Tomlinson dreams of buying a three-bedroom house in the leafy northern English town of Sandbach but now finds herself priced out of the market, a story that is becoming all too familiar in ...

The country is one of many struggling to cope with a new surge of the disease. With more than 12,000 additional deaths by Nov. 19 in the second wave, Britain is recording nearly four times more deaths ...

An unpopular £80 million new "eco-friendly" headquarters for Leicestershire's Pall-Ex has been approved. The haulage giant's massive 408,000 sq ft facility will be built just over the road from their ...

The Foreign Secretary has told LBC that the Government could push ahead with introducing digital ID cards for 13-year-olds. Yvette Cooper told Nick Ferrari at Breakfast that the department will ...

The government will consult on whether children aged between 13 and 16-years-old should be included in the digital ID roll-out. There has been a backlash to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's ...

Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Private sector defined benefit pension schemes sound great. But what happens if your employer — or maybe ...

Martin Lewis has updated drivers as 14 million are due £700 compensation payouts, under the UK financial watchdog’s proposed scheme.