Pensioners were the big losers from today's Budget, with the news 4.4 million will pay more tax from April 2013, at an average loss of £83 each per year. This has been dubbed the new 'Granny Tax'.
Rising gas and electricity prices pushed another million households across the UK into fuel poverty, figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) show today.
A mammoth 86% of motorists have called on the Chancellor to bring the price of petrol down to £1 per litre or less, in a huge poll of over 14,000 people.
17 March 2011
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