内容摘要：Incapacity benefits under universal credit will be frozen in cash terms for existing claimants at £97 per week from April next year - this means they will not be increased in line with inflation until 2029/30.

Incapacity benefits under universal credit will be frozen in cash terms for existing claimants at £97 per week from April next year - this means they will not be increased in line with inflation until 2029/30.

The Environment Agency's investigation will look at soil samples from land near the site, at Hillhouse Technology Enterprise Zone, to check if PFOA is there and how much of it there is.In 2019, PFOA was added to the Stockholm International Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and last year it was classified as carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

A UKHSA spokesman said: "At present it is not clear what, if any, public health risk there may be around the site."Dr John Astbury, its north west consultant, said it will "consider the potential risks and provide an assessment on the potential exposure as the investigation continues and more information becomes available".A paraplegic adventurer said it was "amazing" to have been appointed MBE in the King's New Year Honours list.

Shaun Gash, from Lancaster, was paralysed in a car crash 33 years ago, breaking his back, wrist, shoulder and puncturing both of his lungs, with doctors believing he only had two days to live.Mr Gash, who said he had initially struggled to see a future for himself after the accident, met his now wife Dawn at a spinal injury rehabilitation centre and together they have taken on fundraising challenges, raising thousands of pounds for charity.

"It is a great honour to be recognised," the father-of-three said.

Mr Gash's award is for services to charity and to disabled people.Now, the 62-year-old Indian billionaire and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose sprawling $169bn empire spans ports and renewable energy, faces US fraud charges that could potentially jeopardise his ambitions at home and abroad.

Federal prosecutors have accused him of orchestrating aand concealing it to raise money in the US. They allege Mr Adani and his executives paid bribes to Indian officials to secure contracts worth $2bn in profits over 20 years. Adani Group has denied the allegations, calling them "baseless."

But this is already hurting the group and the Indian economy.Adani Group firms lost $34bn in market value on Thursday, reducing the combined market capitalisation of its 10 companies to $147bn. Adani Green Energy, which is the firm at the centre of the allegations, also said it wouldn't proceed with a $600m bond offering.