Britain should adopt a Swedish-style three-day working week for over-50s, former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said. Meanwhile, millions of Britons could be set for a water bill rebate. Listen to the latest Ian King business podcast while you scroll.
"The targets we set for companies were designed to be stretching - to drive improvements for customers and the environment," David Black, Ofwat CEO said.
Under the plans being considered, people could be offered an additional tax-free ISA allowance strictly for money invested into companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Times is reporting. It warned GP practices were seeing patients with disease that"should have been consigned to the annals of history" such as malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies and rickets. Professor Kamila Hawthorne, its chair, said:"We hear a lot in the press about the rising cost of living, but our survey results show the tangible and worrying impact that this is having on our patients' health and on the dedicated GPs who are caring for them.
GP practices also highlighted an increasing number of requests for help with non-medical issues, such as access to council services and financial advice.Discount supermarket Aldi has become the latest retailer to give body-worn cameras to its staff in a bid to tackle increasing rates of shoplifting.
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