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European markets pull back as momentum fades; UK inflation soars
Eurozone economic growth revised down Euro zone economic growth for the second quarter was revised down on Wednesday from 0.7% to 0.6% quarter on quarter, and ... -
Which parts of England are most affected by the housing crisis? And what drives prices up? | UK News
Housing construction has not kept pace with population growth in nearly half of England’s local authorities, according to an analysis by Sky News. In the decade ... -
UK heat wave: Britain’s green landscapes turn brown as river flows drop | UK News
High temperatures and a lack of rain have turned large parts of Britain’s landscape brown – with the change visible from space. Satellite images show how ... -
Snowman author and illustrator Raymond Briggs dies aged 88 | Ents & Arts News
Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for the 1978 classic The Snowman, has died aged 88. The announcement was made by its publisher, Penguin Random ... -
News from Liz Truss – latest: Nobody behind the wheel amid cost of living crisis, says Gordon Brown
‘People are going to go hungry’: Gordon Brown calls for urgent action amid cost of living crisis Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has claimed there was ... -
Chinese Ambassador Warns British MPs Against Taiwan Visit | Taiwan
China’s ambassador to the UK urged British politicians not to “dance to the tune of the United States” and promised “serious consequences” if MPs set foot ... -
TTG – Travel Industry News
August 01, 2022by Gary Noakes A deal that will gobble up one of Ryanair’s US equivalents may not seem to have much implications for the UK ... -
Game over for UK filming season as bird flu and Brexit take their toll | Rural Affairs
Bird flu has managed to make the shooter what animal rights activists have been trying to achieve for decades – with a little help from Brexit. ... -
Live UK leadership debate ends after presenter passes out on air
Foreign Secretary Liz Trussthe bookmakers’ favorite to win the Conservative Party leadership election, and former finance minister Rishi Sunak had been discussing their plans for about ... -
Moorfield and Peloton set up open storage logistics business in UK | New
Moorfield Group and Peloton Real Estate have joined forces to invest in open storage logistics facilities in the UK. Moorfield, which invests on behalf of its ... -
Protesters in UK decry climate change after record heatwave
LONDON (AP) — Protesters took to the streets of London and the Scottish city of Glasgow on Saturday to demand faster action on climate change in ... -
Why a 40C day in the UK is more deadly than a 40C day in other countries | UK News
Britain is less able to cope with high temperatures than many other countries, according to global heat mortality data. Some have wondered why in other parts ... -
Conservative leadership – live: MPs vote as Mordaunt, Truss and Badenoch battle to face Sunak in final ballot
Watch: Boris Johnson’s government wins confidence with 349 votes Tory MPs have started voting again in the Tory leadership bid as the race for second place ... -
Mother of three-year-old killed in collision with Bury tractor ‘is beyond repair’ | UK News
The mother of a three-year-old boy killed in a collision with a tractor on a farm has said he was ‘irreparable’. Albie Speakman suffered fatal injuries ... -
Paul Urey, British aid worker detained by Russian separatists in Ukraine, dies | UK News
A British aid worker held by Russian separatists in Ukraine has died, a family member has told Sky News. Paul Urey would have died five days ... -
Jeremy Vine describes Alex Belfield’s ‘avalanche of hate’ during criminal harassment trial | UK News
TV and radio presenter Jeremy Vine has given evidence in court against a former BBC broadcaster accused of harassment, describing how he was the target of ... -
New poll finds 7 in 10 adults want social media companies to do more to tackle harmful content
68 percent want more action from social media companies on racism, homophobia and misogyny on their platforms Comes as the Online Safety Bill passes report stage ... -
Transfer news LIVE: Man Utd walk away from deal, Arsenal have plan Kante, Eriksen medical | Soccer | sport
Things are indeed starting to get very interesting in the summer transfer window as Premier League clubs across the country start flying out on their pre-season ... -
United Kingdom: Rishi Sunak launches a bid to become the new Conservative leader | New
The former UK finance minister announces his candidacy to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has announced he will step down. Britain’s former finance minister Rishi ... -
Many prostate cancer patients in the UK have not received adequate information about radiotherapy-induced sexual dysfunction
New research indicates that many UK patients do not receive adequate information about treatment-induced sexual dysfunction before, during and after treatment with radiotherapy for prostate cancer. ... -
UK climate protesters cling to constable’s frame | world news
LONDON (AP) — Two climate change protesters have been arrested after they stuck to the frame of a famous John Constable painting that hangs in Britain’s ... -
UK’s new ‘Bill of Rights’ exempts government from free speech protections
Boris Johnson’s new ‘bill of rights’ exempts the government itself from complying with its new free speech protections, legal experts have warned. Justice Secretary Dominic Raab ... -
More disadvantaged students than ever will work or study around the world thanks to the government’s Turing program
Around 20,000 disadvantaged students from schools, colleges and universities are set to travel around the world to work and study as the Turing scheme continues to ... -
Boris Johnson PMQ today: Raab and Rayner prepare for MP battle
Boris Johnson condemns Putin’s ‘barbarism’ after missile strike in shopping mall Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner are set to face off at Prime Minister’s Questions in ... -
Covid omicron latest: UK in ‘fifth wave’ as coronavirus cases continue to rise
Unicef’s “Covid generation” appeal The UK is battling a fifth wave of Covid as infections soar and major summer events could see cases rise even further, ... -
UK quietly removes ‘human rights’ and ‘rule of law’ from list of Gulf trade deal goals
The government quietly removed “human rights” and “rule of law” from its list of objectives in negotiating a trade deal with the Gulf states. Both items ... -
Boris Johnson latest: PM hits out at ‘condescending’ critics of Rwanda plan
Boris Johnson doesn’t deny offering Carrie Symonds top job Boris Johnson has said criticism of the Home Office’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is ... -
Boris Johnson latest: PM ‘good’ after surgery as No 10 admits ‘Carriegate’ claim
Boris Johnson meets President Zelensky in Kyiv Downing Street confirmed that members of Boris Johnson’s team intervened following the publication of an article about his wife ... -
Raheem Sterling close to Chelsea move, reports say
Sterling still has one year left on his contract with Manchester City. A summer move to Chelsea is closing in on signing Manchester City striker Raheem ... -
Beat the Heat: How to Stay Cool in Hot Weather | UK News
Summer has finally arrived, with daytime temperatures expected to exceed 30C in large parts of central and southern England on Friday. The UK Health Security Agency ... -
Boris Johnson news: PM defends Brexit plan after EU launches legal action
Starmer says Boris Johnson thinks he’s ‘on Love Island’ Downing Street has defended the government’s plan to roll back parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol after ... -
London Tech Week marks another Indo-Pacific business breakthrough for the UK
The UK will mark a major digital trade milestone today [Tuesday]as tech companies from around the world gather at London Tech Week. The new UK-Singapore Digital ... -
200 protesters block immigration officers’ van during Peckham’s arrest | Peckham
A man arrested for immigration offenses has been released on bail after protesters gathered in south-east London for hours on Saturday to stop a van he ... -
Wreck of 17th century royal warship found off British coast
LONDON (AP) — Excavators and historians are telling the world about the discovery of the wreckage of a royal warship that sank in 1682 while carrying ... -
UK weather: ‘Thunder fever’ warning as thunderstorms expected to stir up ‘super pollen’ | UK News
A combination of thunderstorms and high pollen counts will combine to create the “thunder fever” weather phenomenon for millions of people this week as the remnants ... -
European politicians say defeating Boris Johnson would be ‘good news’ for the bloc – POLITICO
There is one parliament where there are not many Boris Johnson supporters – fortunately for the British Prime Minister, it is the European Parliament. The news ... -
Shakespearian drama, nostalgia and high knees: a nation unites to mark the Queen’s Jubilee in a very British way | Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Jhe Jubilee long weekend was heralded by images of the Queen’s 70th birthday projected onto the sarsens of Stonehenge, the only other tourist attraction of comparable ... -
Met police profiling children ‘on a large scale’, documents show | Metropolitan Police
Metropolitan Police documents say the force collected ‘personal data of children’ from social media sites as part of a ‘large-scale profiling’ project. The Met says the ... -
Mid-term travel latest: Four-hour queues at Manchester Airport as easyJet and BA cancel flights
British holidaymakers hoping to take off this week are facing continued travel disruption across the UK. After preemptively cutting 240 flights over the weekend, easyJet canceled ... -
Texas shooting latest: 19 children and two adults killed in Uvalde school shooting as Biden demands action
Texas elementary school shooting: Live from Uvalde, Texas An armed teenager murdered at least nineteen children and two teachers in a shooting at a Texas elementary ... -
Why UK farming is predominantly white – and what is being done to increase diversity | UK News
The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is launching a new scholarship scheme to encourage more UK students from ethnic minorities to enter the agricultural sector. The RAU, ... -
Task force needed to protect UK supply chains from ‘economic shocks’
A bespoke task force to assess the health of the UK’s current and future supply chain must be created to protect manufacturers from unpredictable ‘economic shocks’, ... -
Mass shooting in Buffalo – latest: Payton Gendron on suicidal watch as Biden condemns ‘stain’ of racist violence
Mass shooting in Buffalo: 10 dead as police investigate manifesto Ten people are dead and one suspect is in custody after a man armed with a ... -
May: Vaccine hesitation | News and features
A study that explored the attitudes of vaccine-hesitant adults in the UK towards taking up the COVID-19 vaccine found that participants were hesitant rather than opposed ... -
Man City vs Newcastle highlights and reaction as Sterling, Laporte, Rodri and Foden send Blues ahead
Manchester City opened a three-point gap over Liverpool in the Premier League after finding their way to victory against Newcastle today. City suffered a heartbreaking Champions ... -
Live news: Twitter board sued by Florida pension fund over Musk buyout
The owner of British Airways expects to return to profit this quarter as the travel industry recovers from the worst impact of the pandemic and airlines ... -
Boris Johnson latest: Tory candidates ‘ashamed’ of being linked to PM, says Labor
Boris Johnson ‘out of touch’ with cost of living crisis, says Keir Starmer Angela Rayner claims Tory candidates in the election are ashamed of being linked ... -
Firebombs and death threats: Councilors need more protection, UK agencies say | local government
More needs to be done to protect councilors from abuse, local government bodies say, as those on the front lines of local democracy describe a “really ... -
Kyiv is ‘the right place to be’, says UK Ambassador after returning to town | Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to have given up on his ambitions to take over Kyiv after losing the battle for the city this spring, ... -
Two British aid workers Paul Urey and Dylan Healy reportedly captured by Russian forces in Ukraine | UK News
The mother of one of two British aid workers believed to have been captured by Russian forces in Ukraine has said she “felt like she wanted ... -
Boris Johnson news – live: Starmer hits the Met over Partygate silence
Patel presents Rwanda plan, Johnson goes to India and France goes to the polls | This week in politics Keir Starmer has criticized the Metropolitan Police ... -
Boris Johnson’s visit to India live: Time is running out for PM on Partygate, says Sturgeon
Boris Johnson says people are more interested in India trade deal than Partygate Time is running out for Boris Johnson, his Scottish counterpart has warned, calling ... -
British Prime Minister Johnson says ‘of course’ he will fight in next election | world news
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he would seek re-election as prime minister in the next election and could think of no circumstances ... -
When is the next UK public holiday?
This year’s Easter long weekend was scorching, with temperatures exceeding 22C across the UK. Most of us enjoyed a four-day weekend, thanks to Good Friday and ... -
Ukraine war: ‘shambolic’ red tape prevents refugees from being housed in UK, says woman expecting family | UK News
More than a month after the launch of the UK’s Ukrainian sponsorship scheme, thousands of sponsors are still waiting to host Ukrainian nationals, amid reports of ... -
Sir David Amess ‘welcomed the killer with a smile’, his family says
Priti Patel has become the latest in a long line of Cabinet ministers who have backed Mr Johnson after he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined ... -
Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine
French Societe Generale pulls out of Russia with sale of Rosbank stake; shares jump 5% The French bank Societe Generale has announced its intention to leave ... -
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Kyiv and meets Ukrainian President Zelensky
Kyiv: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to Kyiv on Saturday, an aide to the Ukrainian leader said. “Boris ... -
Boris Johnson latest: ‘Bad time’ to boost National Insurance, Lib Dems say as tax hike kicks in
Boris Johnson speaks Russian as he urges citizens to uncover the truth about Ukraine ‘atrocities’ The leader of the Liberal Democrats said the National Insurance hike ... -
British far-right activist Tommy Robinson says he was detained in Mexico | world news
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – British far-right activist Tommy Robinson said he was arrested on arrival with his children at Mexico’s Cancun airport and would be deported, ... -
‘Unfounded’: Hong Kong denounces US and UK reports of declining freedoms | Politics News
The territory’s government is telling countries to stop “interfering” in its internal affairs after damning assessments on freedoms. Hong Kong reacted with fury to what it ... -
UK boosts support for Ukrainian research community
£3m package to support at-risk Ukrainian researchers Government confirms it will not fund any new collaborative projects with Russia through UK research and innovation organizations The ... -
People fly over UK wind farms
Image: Jet suit paramedic trial in the Lake District (Image: Stuart Bolton, Ørsted) Humans could join flocks of birds flying near wind turbines – no, this ... -
UK and Ireland submit joint bid to host Euro 2028 | Soccer News
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are bidding to host the 2028 European Championship. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have submitted a joint ... -
Britain prepares to temporarily nationalize Gazprom’s retail unit – Bloomberg News
A 3D printed gas pipeline is placed in front of the Gazprom logo displayed and the Russian flag in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado ... -
Death of sexual assault survivor in preventable therapy, inquest finds | UK News
The death of a young woman in a private hospital could have been avoided, according to an inquest. Emma Pring, 29, took her own life while ... -
Government policy in the UK is stoking a ‘culture war’. Will it undermine the country’s world-class museums?
As real war continues to wreak havoc across Europe, UK cultural institutions are facing their own insidious ‘culture war’ with various stakes, which could have a ... -
UK to host Baltic and Nordic leaders to find new ways to isolate Russia | world news
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host leaders from countries on Russia’s northwest flank next week to discuss ways to respond to President ... -
Latest from Boris Johnson: Britons to be urged to host refugees as PM says Putin may use chemical weapons
Johnson ‘fears’ Putin may use chemical weapons in Ukraine The British government is preparing to ask the British public to open their homes to refugees fleeing ... -
Oscar Tshiebwe voted National Player of the Year by Sporting News
History links Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe is Sporting News’ College Basketball Player of the Year LEXINGTON, Ky. – ... -
UK announces additional $230 million in aid for Ukraine
As the Russian invasion continues, more and more companies continue to announce that they are ceasing to do business with Russia. On Monday, Italian fashion group ... -
Boris Johnson news – live: PM says Putin will ‘double down’ on invasion
Zelensky attacks NATO in a nocturnal speech: “People will die because of you” Boris Johnson said Russian President Vladimir Putin would “double down” on his invasion ... -
Brexiteer Tory MP says it’s ‘monstrous’ that UK businesses now have to fill in forms to trade with the EU
A Tory MP who campaigned for Brexit said it was “monstrous” that UK businesses now have to fill in forms to trade with Europe. Sir Desmond ... -
Ukraine-Russia News Live: Long Russian convoy less than 20 miles from Kiev – as 660,000 people flee the country | world news
Wallace: Bombing likely to ‘get worse’ – and Putin ‘doesn’t care’ about Western sanctions Defense Secretary Ben Wallace speaks to Sky News this morning as the ... -
US, EU and UK to sanction Russian central bank and block SWIFT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, European Union and United Kingdom agreed on Saturday to implement crippling sanctions against Russia’s financial sector, including blocking its access ... -
News of February 24 Ukraine Invasion: Russian Forces Storm Ukraine, Civilians Flee Kyiv, West Unveils New Sanctions
Western leaders launched a volley of condemnations and threatened retaliation for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered the entry of troops into ... -
Biden ‘in principle’ agrees to meet Putin, as long as Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine
Washington — President Biden has agreed “in principle” to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future, on the condition that Russia does not ... -
Lapadat shines as UK tennis moves to Elite Eight
SEATTLE, Washington (British Athletics) – Year Two Joshua Lapadat propelled Kentucky to seven seeds (9-1) against a 4-0 sweep of 10-seeded Southern California (6-2) in the ... -
England vs Canada LIVE! Arnold Clark Cup Match Stream, Latest Scores and Goals Updates Today
1645126710 7 minutes: Some first forays on the left of the dynamic Canadian full-back Ashley Lawrence, who plays in his football club for PSG. She looks ...