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Wake Up News Friday, 11 September 2026

Badenoch's £8bn welfare cuts: who is hit and who is exempt

Kemi Badenoch has set out Conservative plans to cut £8billion from the welfare budget in order to raise defence spending by £10billion and hit 3 per cent of GDP by 2030…

Badenoch's £8bn welfare cuts: who is hit and who is exempt

£4bn housing benefit cut: where it falls and who is exempt

£9bn bank tax: TUC plan to cut bills for two thirds of homes

£4bn benefits cut rejected: what it would mean for housing benefit

Budget on 28 October: Chancellor will not rule out triple lock change

£70 on the spot, £1,000 in court: Nottingham's face covering rule

Call-up age to rise to 65 as 95,000 veterans face mobilisation test

£477m taxpayer quits UK for Greece as October Budget tax rises loom

£300 Winter Fuel Payment: the age that decides the extra £100

£1,000 plate fines: new police unit takes crackdown nationwide

696 Nationwide branches to stay open to 2030 as rivals shut doors

Supermarket prices still rising despite slowing inflation, Which? finds

UK households £4.3bn in energy debt as families turn to risky borrowing to cope

Martin Lewis warns households over 'significantly higher' energy deals

Universal Credit and Pension Credit households urged to claim extra help worth hundreds

Eight UK fraud cases reported every minute as victims robbed four million times in year

Social tariffs: how millions on benefits can slash water, broadband and phone bills

Energy bills to rise 13% in July but winter surge fears scaled back

Millions of pensioners overcharged after HMRC calculation blunder

Resident doctors call off four-day strike after new government pay offer

NHS dentist shortage forcing patients to drain savings for private care

Families raiding savings to fix teeth as NHS dentist shortage bites

NatWest dangles £200 cash bonus for new switchers plus monthly cashback

Watchdog probes Europe's biggest airline over fees to sit with children

Working mums lose nearly £16,000 in earnings during maternity leave

Ryanair faces UK probe over charging parents to sit with their own children

TUC demands emergency energy bill help for two-thirds of UK households

Martin Lewis warns car finance claimants 'may have been misled' by firms

Nearly 3,000 patients a day treated in NHS corridors, figures show

State Pension age starts rising to 67 from April: DWP confirms key dates

Benefits that stop the day you reach State Pension age

Pensions row drags on as DWP issues new Waspi update for 1950s women

Illegal mini-marts face year-long shutdowns under new crackdown

Pint prices up 36% since last World Cup as pubs feel the squeeze

M&S cuts prices on 65 food lines in £30m push to ease grocery bills

Motability mileage allowance cut from 1 July as 25p-per-mile charge confirmed

NHS to offer prostate cancer patients five-session radiotherapy instead of 20

17 Universal Credit changes you must tell the DWP about or risk losing payments

NHS to roll out shorter prostate cancer radiotherapy from next week

Nationwide £100 Fairer Share payments hit accounts with extra £289 perks on offer