Day: February 11, 2025

UK News: ‘It takes the little people to stand up,’ says Andrea Tucker, who was told to repay £4,600 after caring for mother for 15 years

An unpaid carer is to challenge in the courts an “unfair and nonsensical” demand by welfare officials to repay £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments, five years after being advised by the same department she was following benefit rules correctly.

Andrea Tucker, a part-time charity shop worker who cared full-time for her mother for 15 years, told the Guardian the prospect of going to tribunal had made her ill with stress but she was determined to get justice. Continue reading…
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Canada says response to 25% aluminium and steel tariff will be ‘clear and calibrated’; Hong Kong to file complaint with World Trade Organization over tariffs imposed on city

* Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium

EU trade ministers are set to hold a video conference on Wednesday, following last night’s announcement that the US will impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium tariffs, Reuters reports, citing EU diplomats.

The European Commission, which oversees trade policy for the European Union, will seek to gauge views of the 27 EU members at the video conference due to take place at 3pm GMT. Continue reading…
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Murray Auchincloss reports fall in annual profits to $8.9bn last year from almost $14bn in 2023

* Business live – latest updates

The chief executive of BP has defended its tumbling profits as the board braces for a campaign by an activist investor to overhaul the troubled oil company.

Murray Auchincloss reported a sharp slump in BP’s annual profits to $8.9bn (£7.9bn) last year from almost $14bn in 2023, just days after it emerged that the activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management has taken aim at the oil major by building a stake in the company. Continue reading…
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