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UK government should recognise long Covid as an occupational disease for all key workers

All the methods of cost of living calculations come with benefits and limitations

The owner of trainer chain JD Sports last week announced its annual sales had topped £10billion for the first time as one in three Brits wear trainers to the office

A significant factor behind the rising migration numbers in recent years has been an increase in foreign students and their dependants arriving, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says

Households should not be afraid to reach out and ask for help, according to interactive investor, which made the calculations.

Nisreen Alwan, professor of public health at the University of Southampton and Daniel Ayoubkhani, principal statistician at the Office for National Statistics and the University of Leicester explain how the latest statistics on the Covid pandemic and jobs suggest long Covid could be causing high levels of economic inactivity.

Almost 2 million people in the UK are estimated to be living with long COVID – after-effects of COVID that can persist for months or even years after the initial infection.

Young adults stranded in the family home have been abandoned by politicians who view them as an afterthought, says Guardian columnist John Harris

It comes as ministers brace for fresh population statistics that are expected to show that net migration reached record levels last year.

Energy bills and a tight labour market continue to cloud predictions of a steep decline by the end of the year

Cost of living crisis, mental health issues and long Covid all thought to be factors, but we still know too little about fatigue