Month: December 2024

News UK

Rachel Reeves caves in as pension review on hold after £25bn bill backlash _ Hieuuk

The Chancellor is thought to be reluctant to turn the screw on businesses already reeling after the hike in their national insurance contributions. Budget 2024: Rachel Reeves outlines approach to pensions Rachel Reeves has reportedly put her pensions review on ice over fears…

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Labour ministers look utterly foolish for spending £130k on decorating offices _ Hieuuk

As 10 million citizens are denied winter fuel payments, it emerged last week that incoming Labour ministers have spent £130K on redecorating their offices. UK Labour Cabinet (Image: Getty) HOW would you describe an outfit that spent £594 on a ring…

Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Sydney Fifty Years Ago

Sydney is the capital city and most populous city in the state of New South Wales, Australia and Oceania. Sydney enhanced its position as an education capital of the Western Pacific during the postwar period. In 1967, Australia Square Tower…

Amazing Kodachrome Slides Capture Street Scenes of Australia in the 1960s

The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history – including in Australia. It saw the birth of the civil rights movement, greater moves towards equality for women in the workplace and the beginnings of…

On March 1, 1975: Australian Television Stations Officially Moved to Color

In February 1972 the Australian Government announced that all Australian TV stations would convert to color in March 1975. The transition to color TV was expected to cost the ABC around $46 million and the commercial channels $70 million. Some…

Amazing Photos of Beaches in New South Wales Around 1900

New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The…

Sydney Teenagers of the 1940s

These vintage photographs are from July 6 1946 issue of Australian magazine PIX. Taken by Ray Olson they are illustrating an article about teenagers entitled “Where Is Youth Heading?” A year after the end of World War Two the magazine was…

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The beautiful UK seaside town locals fear is about to be ruined forever by Angela Rayner _ Hieuuk

Local campaigners fear Labour’s housing reforms could change the character of their idyllic home forever. Ron Kentish lives in a house right next to the proposed site (Image: Adam Gerrard / Daily Express) The steady stream of bright green protest signs…

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Labour accused of backsliding on commitment to ban Shamima Begum from returning to UK _ Hieuuk

The Tories have accused Labour minister Angel Eagle of refusing to rule out a return for the Jihadi bride. The Tories have demanded Labour stand up for the British people (Image: Getty) Senior Home Office minister Angela Eagle has been accused…

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Keir Starmer forms EU ‘surrender squad’ to negotiate reversal of Boris Johnson’s Brexit _ Hieuuk

Sir Keir has set up a massive group of civil servants to run his renegotiations with Brussels over the coming year, sparking immediate backlash. Sir Keir will meet with EU leaders in February (Image: Getty) Keir Starmer has been accused of…