Getty ImagesThe state pension will go up significantly in April under what is known as the triple lock.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced it will rise by 8.5%.
Pensioners generally receive an increase in line with rising prices or earnings.
What is the state pension and how much is it worth?The state pension is a payment made every four weeks by the government to people who have reached the qualifying age and have paid enough National Insurance contributions. Read More...
Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky is an American competitive swimmer.
She has won six Olympic individual gold medals and 14 world championship individual gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer.
Katie Ledecky was born on March 17, 1997 (age 25 years), in Washington, D.C., United States.
Katie Ledecky house: Where does Katie Ledecky live? Katie Ledecky has moved her home base from Stanford in California to Gainesville, Florida. Read More...
Britain’s worrying rise in deaths from sepsis may be due to some doctors not taking the condition seriously, according to the UK’s top sepsis expert.
The life-threatening condition occurs when the immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage the body’s tissues and organs, and over the past decade deaths from it have soared – from 37,000 a year in 2013 to about 48,000 a year now.
Despite repeated awareness campaigns aimed at speeding up diagnosis and treatment, sepsis now causes more deaths than breast, prostate and bowel cancer combined. Read More...
