England's journey to a second successive semi-final at a major international tournament has perhaps reminded people what it might mean to be English. And thanks to another brilliant campaign from London’s Migration Museum, it's been a powerful reminder about where they're from too.more

Brexit, and the pandemic to a certain degree, caused a drop in the number of applications submitted to UK universities by EU (43 percent) and Polish (73 percent) candidates, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service’s (UCAS) statistics showed. more

British xxperts are almost evenly split on whether to administer coronavirus vaccinations to teenagers as alarm mounts on the continent about a possible fourth wave of infections. more

A sizeable minority of people in the UK would be happy for Covid restrictions including a 10pm curfew to be in place indefinitely, new polling suggests.more

The government has rejected claims it owes the European Union £41bn for a Brexit “divorce bill”, even as it emerged the first payments have been made.more

Britain reported on Friday 35,707 new COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, government data showed.more

Employers should consider allowing workers to be late or take a day off if England wins Euro 2020, a Downing Street spokesman said. The announcement was issued after over 100,000 people signed a petition to make Monday a day off if England beat Italy in the European Championship final.more

Supermarkets are preparing for a sales bonanza this weekend as Britons get set to spend an estimated £563 million in preparation for the Euro 2020 final. more

Forecasters are predicting a fortnight of summer sun from the middle of July after weeks of rain and clouds.more

Details of the plan, which will also allow vaccinated people abroad to enter the UK without going into quarantine, will be presented in "the next few weeks," UK Transport Minister Grant Shapps said today.more

Met Police officer Wayne Couzens has pleaded guilty to the murder of the marketing executive Sarah Everard. The firearms officer snatched her as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham on 3 March, driving her away in a car he had hired.more

The risk of severe illness or death from Covid-19 is "extremely low" in children and young people, as new research reveals that just 25 under-18s in England have died from the virus in a one year period.more

Declan Lancaster, who admitted causing the blaze which resulted in the death of Patryk Mortimer, who lived in the Manor House premises in Easington Lane, will have to serve a minimum of five years before he can apply for parole.more

‘By getting a Black person to drink this disgusting beer for promotional purposes, they mock the victims of racism,’ says sociologist Rafal Pankowski.more

England's Euro 2020 progress could be behind infections rising faster among men than women in the past two weeks, Imperial College London data suggests.more

Millions of children did not receive any language tuition during lockdowns in England, the British Council has said. The report shows that the government will fail to meet its target of three-quarters of pupils taking a modern language GCSE by 2022, if current trends continue.more

British transport minister Grant Shapps has told Italian soccer fans not to try to travel to England for the final of this year's Euro 2020 tournament on Sunday.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that most British troops have left Afghanistan, almost 20 years after the UK and other Western countries sent troops into the country to engage in what they described as a “war on terror”.more

The UK hit a Covid milestone on Thursday, surpassing five million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, as officials reported a new single-day increase of 32,551 infections, along with a further 35 fatalities.more

Pub chain Wetherspoons is to increase the price of its meals this autumn when a temporary VAT reduction for food and non-alcoholic drinks sold in pubs and restaurants comes to an end. more

The chancellor has reiterated the £20 uplift to universal credit will be scrapped as it "was always intended to be a temporary measure". Campaigners say the payments, worth around £1,000 a year, have stopped some from falling into poverty.more

Staff in shops could face an increase in abuse and violence in stores once restrictions are eased, according to the boss of the retail industry’s trade body.more

This is the first look at a proposed park opposite Wimbledon set to become London's first major new green space in a decade.more

More than 100 scientists and doctors have signed a letter accusing the government of conducting a ‘dangerous and unethical experiment’ by scraping all Covid restrictions in two weeks.more

A photo of the birth certificate, released by The Sun on Thursday, shows the duchess used her birth name - Rachel Meghan Markle - instead of her title in the name section. Harry, meanwhile, chose to use "Duke of Sussex" as his first name and "His Royal Highness" as his last name on the birth certificate.more