Key Facts

18/04/2013
According to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings the average salary of UK employees in 2012 was £26,664. That figure was up by only a paltry 0.2% on 2011 meaning that, with annual consumer price inflation running at 2.8% the typical British worker last year suffered a pay cut. For the top executive earners, the news was even worse as their salaries actually fell by nearly 4%.

21/02/2013
More than a third of people in Britain might delay seeing a doctor over symptoms they think could be serious because of the difficulty in making an appointment, a study has revealed.