The Government could need up to £10 billion to cover public sector pay increases if reports of a 5.5% rise prove true, an economist has warned. Independent pay review bodies are reported to be preparing to recommend such an increase for teachers and around 1.3 million NHS staff, according toContinue Reading
Flight delays and cancellations are among the disruption expected to continue into the weekend after a global IT outage, as experts warned it could take weeks for systems to fully recover. A flawed update rolled out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many offline around the world on Friday, causing flightContinue Reading
Thousands of airline passengers whose flights have been cancelled due to the global IT outage are being urged to leave crowded airports. Some 167 flights scheduled to depart UK airports have been axed, with others delayed, while 171 flights due to land in the UK were cancelled, following the technicalContinue Reading
The largest union in local government has said strike action will go ahead after rejecting a revised pay offer that “puts absolutely no more money on the table”. Unison accused Cosla, which represents all Scottish local authorities, of making an offer that does not truly benefit its council workers, whichContinue Reading
Cleaners, security guards and workers in Whitehall have suspended strike action planned for Monday after receiving an improved pay offer and other benefits. Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) employed by outsourcing giant ISS at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero were due to takeContinue Reading
The chief executive of CrowdStrike, the firm at the centre of the global IT outage, has said he is “deeply sorry” for the incident, but warned it would take “some time” for systems to be fully restored. George Kurtz said a fix had been deployed for a bug in anContinue Reading
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike is “actively working” to fix a “defect” in an update for Microsoft Windows users which sparked a global IT outage, the company’s chief executive has said. CrowdStrike chief executive George Kurtz said Mac and Linux users were not impacted by the fault and it was “not aContinue Reading
Britain’s biggest train company has warned passengers to expect disruption due to “widespread IT issues”. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) – parent company of Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern – issued an alert on the brands’ social media channels. The message stated: “We are currently experiencing widespread IT issuesContinue Reading
HMRC has collected an additional £14.4 million in tax from insolvencies over two tax years up to 2023 since it regained its ‘preferential creditor’ status. The preferential status, known as ‘Crown Preference’, was reinstated for HMRC in December 2020, granting it priority in reclaiming taxes owed from insolvent businesses aheadContinue Reading
Figures released this morning by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reveal that inheritance tax receipts reached £2.1 billion from April to June in the 2024/25 tax year. This figure is £83 million higher than the same period last year, continuing a two-decade trend of increasing receipts. The previous full taxContinue Reading
