Jude

If you had to choose a Mount Rushmore of players in the last decade who played for your respective clubs, who would be on it?

"IT'S A VOLLEYBALL TOUCH!" 😳 Lincoln City go a step closer to Championship football... but was there a handball in the build-up? 👀

The UK University sector should be saying that the Erasmus scheme is poor value for money and asking for a doubling of the Turing Scheme funding instead. Better value, and the resultant saving could be ploughed into helping the HEI sector.

NEWS. The State Pension is set to rise 4.7% next April. We know this as it is 'triple locked', ie rises by the higher of 2.5% or inflation or average earnings rise. The final figure has just come in, for earnings up to July and it's the highest of the three, at 4.7%. So based on that the FULL state pension (ie for someone with all the qualifying national insurance years) is set to rise from... NEW state pension £230.24 to £241.05/wk OLD state pension (retirees pre Apr 2016) £176.45 to £184.75/wk This will take someone on the full new state pension to £12,535 a year, only £35 below the frozen personal allowance (amount you can earn tax free each year). So as state pension income is taxable, that means without any question the following year (unless something changes), those on the full new state pension with no other income will for the first time pay tax on it (as it will rise a minimum 2.5% and personal allowances are frozen).