Cold weather payment postcode checker: Is your area on the list to receive a bonus?
Updated: 18 Feb 2021, 11:41
COLD weather payments give low-income households a £25 boost if they’ve experienced freezing temperatures - we explain how it works.
The UK has been hit by heavy snow and record-breaking cold temperatures this winter.
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Families playing in the Christmas Day snow on hills in NorthumberlandCredit: PA press association
Earlier this month, Storm Darcy - dubbed the Beast from the East II - caused chaos across Britain, bringing howling blizzards from Russia to the UK.
With the cold weather sticking around for a little while longer, households on certain benefits will want to keep an eye on their thermostats in case they become eligible for a cold weather payment.
READ MORE But it was unwritten law among us in those days that the real core of a song lyric was a private matter for the composer, whoever that might be. So I still respect that.
However, the best way to understand the song is through the words of the man himself, who said in an interview in Sydney in 1985: “We had so much hunger. We had so much that we wanted to bring out, it was all sort of kept in.
“So we had all kinds of songs and Bohemian Rhapsody happened to be, it was basically three songs that I wanted to put out and I just put the three together.
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Valletta was built by an order of knights, and they had a real thing for intimidating stone buildings
Valletta was built by an order of knights, and they had a real thing for intimidating stone buildings.
But imposing on the outside often mixes with lavish on the inside.
St John’s Co-Cathedral and the Grand Master’s Palace are ablaze with decoration.
In the palace, check out the Council Chamber, which is covered in 300-year-old tapestries.
The Palace Armoury, with hundreds of suits of armour, is rather cool too.
NEW FOR 2021
You will not find Maltese wine on our supermarket shelves, which is all the more reason to taste it at source.
All together now
The European Union’s 27 member countries want to start vaccinations on “the same day” as pressure mounts on the bloc to catch up with the United States and Britain.
UK vaccinates 137,000
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Record Germany toll
Masked Christmas
The World Health Organization in Europe urges families to wear face masks during forthcoming Christmas family gatherings, warning of a “further resurgence” of Covid-19 in early 2021.
London pubs close
London closes theatres, pubs and restaurants and bans people from socialising with anyone not from their household or support bubble, except outside in groups of no more than six.
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