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The government’s decision to remove the winter fuel payment from all but the poorest pensioners prompted the first real test that the Prime Minister has had to...

This Friday, Cash Access UK is heading to Bordon to host a community ’drop in’ event about Hampshire’s first ever banking hub. The event’s purpose is to provide...

Everyone knows it can be very difficult juggling work time with family life. No two families are the same. Some are able to and decide to have a parent be full...

Say “Summer” in a word association game, and there’s a good chance the response you’ll get back is “holiday”. And looking back over Summer 2024, for many Herald...

I’m old enough to remember a time when Olympic gold medals could be counted on one hand. I especially recall Atlanta 1996; I had been living there for a period...

It’s inevitable that when there is a change of government, a lot of effort from the incoming administration goes into ‘framing’ the situation. There’s a lot of...

This morning (as I write this) I have just done my first morning media round as an opposition spokesman: a little shorter than doing the round as a government...

Well, football didn’t quite come home this summer and thirty years of hurt inches towards sixty. But what a change from my childhood: we are getting to...

I’m writing this week’s column having just witnessed the King’s Speech, the official beginning of the new Parliament. The protocols of the King’s Speech and the...