Everyone will get a free pile of cash

CARE-FACED CHEEK

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A “CARER” coldly steals jewellery as its dementia-stricken owner sleeps.

Sheila Wade’s son John put cameras in her home after cash went missing.

He was furious after they filmed Caroline Bastable taking the 82-year-old’s “Swarovski jewellery and Cartier watches”. ■

Son John said: “You could clearly see her pocketing cash, jewellery and perfume as mum slept on the couch. I felt so angry watching this woman raiding

Mum’s drawers and cupboards.”

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Barstable, 42, will be sentenced next month at Sheffield Crown Court after admitting wilful neglect and two counts of theft at Mrs Wade’s home in Barnsley.

HULL Council wants to pay all its residents up to £100 a week – even if they earn a fortune.

The city is aiming to become the first in Britain to introduce a Universal Basic Income (UBI).

It would be paid by the Government and effectively replace all welfare payments.

Those in receipt of disability payments would receive the equivalent amount in UBI, researchers said. The idea was proposed as a way to limit damage caused by robots increasingly taking people’s jobs.

Some claim it may even help people find new employment.

Sam Gregory, who chairs a Sheffield group that supports the scheme, said: “Three major northern cities – Liverpool,

Sheffield and Hull – have now asked to host pilots of this radical new idea.

“The Westminster way of doing things has failed these communities for far too long. We don’t know if UBI is the answer, but there’s a growing consensus between different political parties to test it out.”

UBI trials in Finland, the only advanced economy to pilot a widespread scheme, found people receiving basic incomes were happier.

But there was no change in their ability to get jobs.

The scheme, which paid people £490 a month, was scrapped last January.