According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, council bosses issued more than a dozen legal warnings to S4H between June 2024 and September 2025 regarding potential breaches of its contract. During the inspection in July, inspectors found “new swabs and pots for chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing were being stored under the staining sink in open
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out some key tax changes in the Autumn Budget Cerys McDonald from HMRC spoke about a looming tax change(Image: Parliament TV) HMRC has revealed crucial new information about a major shake-up to tax on the state pension. During the Autumn Budget, the Government pledged to ensure that people “whose sole income
Hugh PymHealth editor BBC Listen to Hugh reading this article Guts have become a source of immense fascination. Social media influencers promote unproven supplements said to boost gut health, whilst milk and kombucha brands promise to nourish them with “good bacteria”. Some have dismissed the gut-obsession as a passing fad – however many doctors think
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Angus CochraneSenior political journalist, BBC Scotland PA Media Shona Robison announced her tax and spending plans in the Scottish Parliament The Scottish government has announced plans to change income tax thresholds as part of its Budget for 2026-27. Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the proposals would mean 55% of Scottish taxpayers would pay less income
The S500 airborne wind energy system. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences A Chinese energy company has completed a successful test of the world’s first megawatt-class airborne wind energy system, a major step toward alternative power generation technologies. The system, which resembles a large airship, reached an altitude of 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) during a trial
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Creative Planning president and CEO Peter Mallouk. Meanwhile, Beacon Pointe and Elevation Point have each announced transactions involving billion-dollar-plus wealth firms with California, Missouri, and Atlanta footprints. Dealmaking momentum in the billion-dollar-plus RIA space accelerated sharply on Tuesday with a hat trick of announcements from Creative Planning, Beacon Pointe, and Elevation Point. Creative Planning makes