You can choose to opt out of receiving the Winter Fuel Payment, which can be worth £300 from the Department for Work and ...

A child was arrested after a Midland school allegedly found a youth with a 'large amount of cannabis'. Police were alerted by ...

The full state pension is for men born after 1951 and women born after 1953. The Bank of England forecasts inflation will ...

Nicolas Jackson was substituted in Aston Villa’s defeat to Nottingham Forest after referee warned he was close to being sent ...

Midland man embraces new life and bought steaks, chicken, tuna, cottage cheese, fruit, vegetables and drinks for fraction of ...

Birmingham B&B plans refused amid parking 'nightmare' in suburb. But the proposals sparked dozens of objections, with ...

The basic state pension looks set to rise by 3.9 per cent next year as the latest wage growth figures are revealed. Wage growth in the UK slowed in July as workers came under pressure from a renewed ...

Existing customers of Virgin Media's broadband, landline or TV packages will receive the initial 12 months of the new email service without charge, subject to a 99p transfer fee paid to Junara.

It would mean £250 weekly payments for state pensioners born after 1951 from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - a rise of £9. The triple lock ensures the state pension rises by the higher of ...

In what has been described as a “seedy back room deal” the ruling coalition of Greens, Liberal Democrats and Better Birmingham Independents agreed to assign all of the powerful chairing roles on ...

The full - or new - state pension is for those born after 1951, if men, and 1953, if women. Former Liberal Democrats and Conservative Party pensions minister Sir Steve Webb has warned that this could ...