Rhodri Morgan

During the 2022/23 winter - the most recent for which statistics exist - £18.3million was spent on giving nearly 36,000 ex-pats and previous residents the hand-out.

Thousands make the move down under ever year, boasting of better pay, friendlier people and an incredibly relaxed lifestyle. But is that really true?

Wine consumption has soared 12-fold since the 1960s, partly fuelled by higher boozing rates among women. Beer intake, meanwhile, has more than halved since its hey-day.

MailOnline's handy calculator can tot up how many units you sink each week, as well as how that compares to the UK's guideline. Simply plug in how many drinks you have on a weekly basis.

MailOnline's handy calculator can help you work out how many units you consume per week and how that compares to the UK guideline.

The UK might be souring on Apple as data show its share of Britain's mobile phone market has reached the its lowest point since 2016. The tech giant's control has fallen to around 46 per cent in 2024

Only 9 per cent of England and Wales's 147,000 coppers are 'bobbies on the beat'. But this falls to 2.9 per cent in the city of London, MailOnline analysis suggests.

Britain's beaches attract millions of visitors every year, perhaps none more so than the world-famous Jurassic Coast. The 95-mile stretch along the Dorset coastline is more than 180 million years old.

The survey data comes from YouGov's ratings collection, described as the 'biggest and boldest attempt ever made to quantify what Britain thinks'.

Under ambitious plans to reach net-zero, Labour has vowed to press ahead with the controversial ban of sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.