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Best home energy efficient lighting: eco-friendly low-cost bulbs

Best home energy efficient lighting: eco-friendly low-cost bulbs

In survey Audi A1 was car with the lowest running costs (photo: Adobe)

Data reveals UK’s favourite cars that cost you most and least to run

Start the year off by downloading a digital budget planner (photo: Adobe)

Helpful saving hacks to help with the cost of living

Thousands of those living in poverty in West Northamptonshire have health issues.

Cost of living warning as estimates show thousands of poorest have health issues

Franklins Partners Andrea Smith, Simon Long, Lee Holmes and Scott Wright

Charities in MK and Northants pull together to tackle cost-of-living crisis

Trussell Trust food banks can be found all over the country including in Weston Favell and Towcester.

'This is not right': Food bank demand among children quadrupled over five years

Daventry Food Bank relies on donations, and this is a recent Harvest Festival Collection from Ashby Fields Primary School. Photo: Daventry Food Bank.

Woman ‘blown away’ by food bank after having no choice but to use one

Official figures showed nearly 300 private renters and homeowners in Northamptonshire faced evictions in just three months this summer

Cost of Living crisis: How many people faced evictions in Northants this summer

West Northamptonshire's hub has details on financial support, warm places and food banks for those struggling with the Cost of Living crisis

Here's how locals struggling with cost of living crisis get help

Figures from charity the Trussell Trust showed nearly 13,000 food parcels were handed out in six months to September at its five foodbanks in Northamptonshire

Charity warns of 'tsunami of need' as thousands more turn to county foodbanks

Public service union UNISON warns Northamptonshire councils face £40 million deficits next year — but that figure could grow after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's budget

Union warns of county councils’ £40m deficit as Bank hikes interest rate
“Government set to make things worse for cash-strapped authorities already resorting to desperate measures,” says UNISON chief

Consumers are being urged to watch out for energy-draining ‘vampire’ appliances this Halloween

Watch out for energy-draining ‘vampire’ appliances this Halloween

Clerk to Nether Heyford Parish Council, Guy Ravine. Photo by Kirsty Edmonds.

Cost of living crisis: Nether Heyford welcomes residents into ‘warm room’

Parish councillor Jane Wood outside the Sunday School Rooms in Bugbrooke.

Bugbrooke sets up ‘community living rooms’ to help people keep warm this winter

West Northamptonshire Council says it will be supporting around 17,500 households with vouchers and extra cash to help with grocery shopping and energy bills this winter

Council pledges to help 17,500 households through winter cost of living crisis

Government figures have highlighted the number of families threatened with homelessness in Northamptonshire

Hundreds of county households with children threatened with homelessness

Opposing councillor Longley and Stone are set to square off over the handling of West Northamptonshire's finances amid the cost of living crisis

Councillors clash after warning £7.6m budget hole could get even bigger

New Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, is expected to announce an estimated £30 billion worth of tax cuts in an emergency mini-budget on Friday

£150 disability cost-of-living payment: Who qualifies and how to get it

Energy bills will rise against on October 1

Why PM’s energy plan is an 'expensive sticking plaster' for 38,000 county homes

To kickstart the appeal, Northamptonshire Community Foundation will be able to match fund the first £20,000 donated – pound for pound.

Northamptonshire Community Foundation launches #PovertyHurts appeal today

Labour leader Wendy Randall wants Liz Truss to make tackling soaring energy costs her first job at PM

Labour councillors call on Liz Truss to freeze bills on first day as new PM

Cllr Malcolm Longley says West Northamptonshire is facing a "fresh wave of financial challenges which no-one could have predicted"

Councillors warned cost of living crisis could leave £10m hole in budget

Property prices continued to rise across Northamptonshire in May — but experts warn a slowdown may be coming

County house prices rising, but for how long as cost of living crisis bites?

Nearly 20,000 children are eligible for free school meals in Northamptonshire — but campaigners want government to make help available to more people

One in six pupils get free school meals, but Labour says it’s not enough

Charities warn renters in Northamptonshire are being hit hard by the cost of living crisis

Tenants spent up to quarter of wages on rent BEFORE cost-of-living crisis

Figures show more than 1,800 Northamptonshire families and mums with young children are missing out on help from the NHS Healthy Start scheme

NHS Healthy Start: 1,800 Northamptonshire families miss out on help to buy food

More than 10,000 eligible children will get £20 vouchers from West Northamptonshire Council covering the cost of school meals over the summer holidays

Free summer school meals for 10,000 children to combat cost of living crisis

Fuel prices are soaring across Northamptonshire — but have gone up more in some areas than others during the last 12 months.

Cost of living crisis: Where have county fuel prices gone up most in last year?
Garages claim there’s no rip-off as figures show big difference in increases at the pumps

Families are feeling the pinch as the cost of living escalates (photo: Adobe)

Warning to UK re cost of living pressures - 'the worst is yet to come'