Austerity News

See who’s saying what on Austerity and how different sections of the Press approach the same story.

Home Office in the dark about whether police forces are running out of money, damning report warns in The Independent – Go To Article

Police left in ‘perpetual state of crisis’ by government’s lack of long-term plan, senior officer warns in The Independent – Go To Article

Nearly 19,000 UK earners now on more than £1m a year in The Guardian – Go To Article

Met dropped 34,000 cases after one day in The Times – Go to Article

Met police dropped 30,000 criminal investigations in first 24 hours last year in The Guardian – Go to Article

John Lewis Partnership made 1,800 redundancies in the past year in The Guardian – Go To Article

Tens of thousands of school staff subject to ‘truly disturbing’ levels of violence in classroom amid funding cuts in The Independent – Go To Article

Almost 4,500 crimes committed against teaching staff in only three years in the Daily Mirror – Go To Article

Retail being bled dry, says Tesco chief Dave Lewis in The Times – Go To Article

UK’s asylum dispersal system close to ‘catastrophic failure’ in The Guardian – Go To Article

Cash-strapped police forces close most cases without a suspect being identified in the Daily Express – Go To Article

Booming global stock markets swell ranks of the super rich in The Guardian – Go To Article

Care for the elderly on the brink of collapse as a £3.5 billion funding gap looms, charity warns in The Sun – Go To Article

Chancellor urged to cut surging business rates to save the high street after 50,000 retail jobs lost this year in the Daily Mail – Go To Article

Personal debts ‘shear almost £900m off British economy’ in The Guardian – Go To Article

Britain faces personal debt crisis as one in six Brits struggle to pay bills, shocking report warns in The Sun – Go To Article

Rich overseas parents buy £2bn of property to get top school places in The Guardian – Go To Article

Overcrowding doubles for primary pupils in The Times – Go To Article

Number of children forced into classes with more than 30 pupils almost DOUBLE since Tories came to power in the Daily Mirror – Go To Article

Father battling cancer whose benefits were cut because he was ‘well enough to make a cup of tea’ died aged 56 with just £8 to his name, his family says in the Daily Mail – Go To Article

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