A special letter has been issued by Polsih Federation in the UK to Sir Keir Starmer on granting UK citizenship to Settled Status EU citizens.more

Starting salaries for permanent staff grew at the slowest rate in over three years last month and spending on temporary workers fell by the most since July 2020, recruiters said on Monday, adding to signs of a slowdown in Britain's job market.more

Assaulting a shop worker will be made a separate criminal offence in England and Wales as part of a government response to a wave of retail crime. more

A Russian disinformation network has made a series of false claims about the British royal family in its ongoing information war with Ukraine. Among the incorrect allegations being made by pro-Kremlin campaigners is the suggestion circulating on fake news sites that King Charles has sold his royal residence Highgrove House to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for £20m.more

Scottish police are unable to cope with the deluge of reports of real and imagined hate crimes coming in after a new law on the matter came into force and may have to drop prosecutions for some other crimes, UK media report.more

People with long Covid have evidence of continuing inflammation in their blood, which could help understanding of the condition and how it may be treated, a UK study suggests. It found the presence of certain proteins increased the risk of specific symptoms, such as fatigue, in people sick enough to need hospital treatment.more

Strawberries were found to be the worst when it came to presenting residues of PFAs, long-lasting toxins which have been linked to serious health issues.more

Thanks to the 'Art of Banksy' exhibition, more than 1.5 million fans of the artist in 15 cities around the world have already had the opportunity to admire his work live. From 11 April, visitors to London's Soho will also have this chance. More than 150 works by the enigmatic street artist will be on display at 100 Charing Cross Road from 11 April until 5 January 2025. The exhibition is not authormore

Sky News understands Buckingham Palace is planning a return to a more active schedule as a working royal, in what could be a further sign that the monarch's cancer treatment is going well.more

Former defence ministers are wrong to issue a stark warning that the UK is unprepared for war as a “whole-nation endeavour”, the deputy prime minister has said.more

Thousands of pests including rats, cockroaches and bedbugs have been found at NHS hospitals in England as the health service buckles under a record high repair bill.more

One in four Londoners (24 per cent) aren’t confident in their ability to meet mortgage and rental payments, reports Barclays. Across the UK, one in six people share the same fears. Homeowners and tenants are cutting back to try and make ends meet, with 22 per cent making cost-saving decisions to keep up with rising housing costs.more

Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has met former President Donald Trump in Florida, before heading onto Washington DC for talks. The former PM is in the US for talks with senior government officials about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.more

Troops swapped places in Paris and London on Monday to mark 120 years since the Entente Cordiale was signed. British troops from Number 7 Company, the Coldstream Guards, took part in a changing of the guard ceremony at the Élysée Palace, while members of French Republican Guard did the same at Buckingham Palace.more

A partial eclipse was seen by very few people in the UK, with most of the country missing the chance to see the phenomenon because of cloud cover. A solar eclipse - when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, obscuring the view of the Sun from Earth - took place on Monday. Tens of millions of people in the US gathered to view the total eclipse.more

The Met Office has issued fresh weather warnings for 65mph gales in the aftermath of Storm Kathleen. Large swathes of the country are on high alert with 95 flood warnings and 209 flood alerts issued by the Environment Agency.more

Bike rental firm Lime is planning a £25m expansion in London after the company’s scooters were banned from Paris last year. Lime hope to expand their cycle hire services to three further boroughs and open a new warehouse in north London.more

Employees across the country have been granted the legal right to request flexible working from the day they enter a new job.more

The UK has lost influence since Brexit to become just one of many “middle powers” in the world, former foreign secretary David Miliband has said. Writing for the Observer, Miliband, now president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, said that in order to reverse the decline, the UK needed to enter new “structures and commitments” with the EU on foreign policy. more

Rent rises in Britain are forecast to outpace wage growth, despite having already surged at the fastest pace on record after the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis.more

The cost of failing to support Ukraine will be much higher than the cost of repelling Vladimir Putin's regime, argue UK and French diplomatic chiefs David Cameron and Stephane Sejourne in a joint article in the 'Daily Telegraph'. Ukraine must win the war, they write.more

Britain must emulate Poland's shining example in Nato and strengthen and modernise its armed forces, or they will be smashed by Russian troops in the event of war, three senior retired British military officers warned in The Sun newspaper on Saturday.more

The British company Ambrey, which insures merchant ships, reported yesterday that Yemeni Huti militia attacked two more vessels off the Yemeni coast that day. In total, the Iranian-backed Huti attacked three vessels within 24 hours.more

Britain still believes Israel has the right to defend its security, but is shocked by the scale of the bloodshed and this conflict must end, wrote Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Yesterday marked six months since the Palestinian organization Hamas attacked Israel.more

Supermarket giant Morrisons is making a big change to its shopping rules. The supermarket currently operates quiet hours between 9am and 10am on Saturdays, and for the first hour of opening on Sundays.more