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🏰 The Celebrity Traitors series 2 line-up is officially confirmed! A new group of famous faces are heading to The Traitors castle to play the ultimate game of deception and betrayal... Meet them ➡️ bbc.in/4d3MB4E

TREASURY COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE STUDENT LOANS (inc Plan 2). Within that there is a questionnaire for (potential) students, graduates, university leavers & others to feed your views into, which is worth doing... committees.parliament.uk/work/9682/stud… Its good to see, and lets hope it brings pressure for improvement. PS Treasury Committee is a cross party committee of MPs, not part of the government. Its job is to scrutinise policy, examine legislation where relevant, and hold ministers and public bodies to account on behalf of Parliament. While it can publish reports and put pressure on the government, but it doesn't have any direct power to compel the government to act.

The govt's Student Loan Plan 2 repayment freeze in April 2027 must be reversed. It isn't moral. I'm concerned that my debate with Kemi Badenoch this morning distracts from the most immediate problem. In April 2027 Rachel Reeves will freeze the Plan 2 student loan threshold until 2030 which by then will increase graduate repayments by £300/yr more. This is effectively a unilateral negative breach of the student loan contract. Students were told the threshold would rise with average earnings. No commercial lender would be allowed to do this. The govt shouldn't do it either. Changing the terms of future students loans is a political decision - people may not like it but it is transparent. Negatively changing the terms of contracts already signed, and long in place, is a breach of natural justice.

Here's a useful letter template, if anybody is interested in emailing their MP regarding Student Loans. It takes less than a minute to complete.. 👇 the.organise.network/campaigns/emai…

The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?

She was a genius. #RipCatherineohara

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I can’t wait until we find out who the secret traitor is and retrospectively watch all this back, see how blatantly obvious the editors made it, and feel like the stupid faithfuls we slag off every series. #TheTraitors

Evil doesn't die, it reinvents itself

BREAKING 🚨The Traitors UK Series 4 begins airing New Year’s Day on BBC One & iPlayer!

Following months of anticipation, the first-ever series of The Celebrity Traitors begins TONIGHT at 9pm on BBC One & iPlayer 🏰

When you remember The Celebrity Traitors begins next week:

@devbankwales @WelshGovernment @JBryantWales @EconomyCymru @BusinessWalesS @WalesBusiness Current condition of the exisiting phases of Parc Eirin that were completed more than 2 years ago with grants to @poblgroup on this site. A poor show despite £380 annual maintenance cost per household.

A property development company based in Cardiff has secured an investment of £17.5m from us, our largest ever investment. Supported by a further £7m from the @WelshGovernment, the funds will assist the build of 114 new homes in Tonyrefail. Work on Parc Eirin, a major low carbon mixed-tenure residential development project by Tirion Homes, has begun with contractor Morganstone completing the build by end of 2027. All 114 homes will achieve an EPC A-rating & include energy-saving features such as solar panels, communal battery storage & ground source heat pumps. Read more on the investment from our Property Fund: ow.ly/1OsH50VyMVW

@MartinSLewis @g__j When will Octopus have their first smart zero standing charge tariff? Octopus have to be the first to do this, right?

What'd u ask a big energy firm boss? Energy Price Cap rises 6.4% next week. In my pod Thur I'm joined by the founder of now the UKs biggest energy retailer @g__j of Octopus. So if uv Qs for me on what to do to save money or Greg on Octopus or the UK energy market? Ask by reply

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@OctopusEnergy will/when Octopus look at making a zero standing charge tariff available? 🐙

Minah and Charlotte when they get to the finale: #TheTraitors