Gamal Fahnbulleh

From 6 April, workers will be hit by a National Insurance hike. And as energy bills and petrol costs soar, already tight budgets are getting tighter. It's no great surprise that all of this will hit the poorest households the hardest. We spent a couple of days in Gamesley near Glossop. The housing estate in the High Peak was described in a recent study as one of the country's most 'left behind neighbourhoods'. But it is home to more than 2,000 people who want to build a brighter future.

The Home Office made repeated errors that caused a man from Manchester who had lived in the UK for more than 50 years to be classified as an illegal immigrant and threatened with arrest, prison and forcible removal, the parliamentary ombudsman has found.