Jack Peat

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE).

He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author.

Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Pictured is Shirley Walsh at her home on Kathleen Road, Hull, where she is forced to use electric heaters, hot water bottles and blankets to keep warm. See Ross Parry story RPYCOLD; A 74-year-old widow has been left "freezing" in her Hull home for months after her gas was cut off leaving her with no central heating or hot water. Shirley Walsh, from east Hull, takes SIX hot water bottles to bed with her at night in a desperate bid to keep warm. The retired seamstress says her supply was cut off in September after workmen found a leak in pipes under her front garden in Kathleen Street, where she has lived for 43 years. But because the leak was on her property, Northern Gas Networks told her she would have to pay for the repair, a cost the pensioner says she can't afford.

Millions of pensioners feel unsafe in their own home

Millions of pensioners feel unsafe in their own home, a study has found. Falling ill or having an accident with no-one nearby to help, anti-social behaviour and having no support is leaving almost one in five pensioners fearful in their own home as they get older. Others admit to worrying...

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Labour proffer up our only chance to end the “rigged economy”

Plans revealed by Labour this week to ban all zero hour contacts, put a halt to unpaid internships and end the cap on public sector staff may have been received as dreamy leftwing rhetoric by most political commentators, but they are in fact our only chance of rebalancing the spiralling...

It’s the (increasingly cooling) economy, stupid

My old economics teacher used to say that regardless of what other big issues might be surrounding a General Election the thing that really sticks in the back of people’s minds when they head to the polling stations is whether they can put food on the table. Labour’s chances of...

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A 507 million-year-old sea monster with can-opener like pincers has been identified for the first time. See NATIONAL story NNMONSTER.  And the strange-looking creature could point to the origin of modern day millipedes, crabs and insects, according to paleontologists.  Canadian scientists have uncovered the new fossil species that sheds light on the origin of mandibulates - the most abundant and diverse group of organisms on Earth, which includes flies, ants, crayfish and centipedes.  The creature, named Tokummia katalepsis by the researchers, is a new and "exceptionally well-preserved" fossilised arthropod - a common group of invertebrate animals with segmented limbs and hardened exoskeletons.  Tokummia documents for the first time in detail the anatomy of early "mandibulates", a sub-group of arthropods which possess a pair of specialised appendages known as mandibles, used to grasp, crush and cut their food.  Study lead author Cedric Aria, a recent graduate of the PhD programme at the University of Toronto, said: "In spite of their colossal diversity today, the origin of mandibulates had largely remained a mystery.

507 million-year-old sea monster identified

A 507 million-year-old sea monster with can-opener like pincers has been identified for the first time. And the strange-looking creature could point to the origin of modern day millipedes, crabs and insects, according to paleontologists. Canadian scientists have uncovered the new fossil species that sheds light on the origin of...

The village of West Heslerton in North Yorkshire which has remained largley unchanged for fifty years has now been sold. See Ross Parry story RPYVILLAGE; An entire English village boasting more than 40 houses and a huge manor home put on the market for a whopping £20 MILLION has been sold. The quintessential Yorkshire village of West Heslerton, which has been left untouched for the past 50 years, was put on sale to carry on the legacy of a "vibrant" community. It was put on the market in April last year, and boasted its very own 21-bedroom mansion, 43 houses and 2,116 acres of surrounding land. Norfolk-based real estate and farming investment firm Albanwise Ltd has announced its purchase of the picturesque village for an 'undisclosed' fee. Tom Watson, a director of Cundalls estate agency which handled the sale, said: "In many respects time has stood still in West Heslerton.

Yorkshire village frozen in time sold for £20 million

An entire English village boasting more than 40 houses and a huge manor home put on the market for a whopping £20 MILLION has been sold. The quintessential Yorkshire village of West Heslerton, which has been left untouched for the past 50 years, was put on sale to carry on...

Most scenic airport in the World revealed

The adrenaline-pumping landing at Saba in the Caribbean has won top spot in 2017 Scenic Airports poll. The tiny Caribbean island runway topped the global travel poll, with other top ten landings including Donegal, London City, Gibraltar and Queenstown. The world’s shortest commercial runway, on the Caribbean island of Saba,...

In pictures: the 2017 Food Photographer of the Year

The World’s greatest food photo was unwrapped at a packed awards reception at the Mall Galleries in London last night. Bangladesh-based Shoeb Faruquee was declared overall winner of Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2017 and was presented with a cheque for £5,000 by Andy Macdonald, who heads up Pink Lady in...

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