Thames Water could raise bills to as much as £627 a year to pay to fix its leaky network, after promising to invest up to £3bn more over the next five years. The embattled water supplier said on Monday that it had updated its spending plans for 2025 to 2030 after discussions with the industry regulator, Ofwat.more

The ITAKA Foundation - Center for Searching for Missing People, at the request of the family and in cooperation with the police, is searching for 43-year-old Rafał Galicki. The man comes from Bialystok but left Poland back in 2018 and arrived to London.more

The Paris Saint-Germain team took another step towards defending their French football title. Yesterday, they beat Olympique Lyon 4:1 in front of their home crowd and are 11 points ahead of AS Monaco with five games to go before the end of the season.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced today that the first deportation flights to Rwanda will take off within 10 to 12 weeks. He stipulated that it was not just one symbolic flight, but that he wanted illegal immigrants to be sent there regularly throughout the summer.more

The aid package for Ukraine passed by the US House of Representatives is a significant step, but it is important to remember that it will not go to the country in its entirety and it does not yet mean a levelling of the playing field in the war with Russia, according to Matthew Savill, an expert at London-based think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).more

Real Madrid's players won at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium against Barcelona 3:2 in the 32nd round of the Spanish Premier League. Robert Lewandowski played for the visiting team until the 64th minute. "The Kings" extended their lead over the second-placed "Pride of Catalonia" in the table to 11 points and are close to the national championship.more

The Spanish National Police (Policia Nacional) has detained a Polish national wanted in Alicante, in the east of the country, in connection with large-scale drug trafficking. The man was wanted under a European arrest warrant.more

Bayer Leverkusen's players, who have already secured the historic German championship, maintained their title unbeaten this season. They drew 1:1 away against Borussia Dortmund in the 30th round of the Bundesliga, scoring the equalising goal in the seventh minute of added time.more

Ryanair has hit back after a study suggested it often may not be the low-cost option. A study conducted by Which? found that while budget airlines like Ryanair and Wizz Air often had the cheapest headline fares, both failed to return the lowest price when cabin bags and seat selection were added on.more

With the US House of Representatives passing the Ukraine aid bill on Saturday, disaster has been averted, but a lot of practical and political problems remain, wrote the UK weekly 'The Economist'.more

Liverpool's players won away against Fulham 3:1 in the 34th round of the English Premier League and moved up to second place in the table. They have the same number of points as Arsenal London, but are behind the Arsenal on goal difference.more

England is on course for the highest number of school suspensions in a single year, figures show. According to data from the Department for Education (DfE) there were almost 264,000 suspensions in spring 2022/2023 - the largest number on record for one term.more

FA Cup: derby again Manchester United's players defeated a below-class performing Coventry City team in penalty shoot-out 4-2 and joined trophy-defending local rival City as FA Cup finalists. It was 3-3 at Wembley after 120 minutes of play, the same line-up for the deciding game a year ago.Manchester City in the finalmore

This year's March was the warmest month on record in terms of ocean water temperature - according to a report by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), which examines, among others, the phenomenon of climate warming.more

World No.4 Elena Rybakina captured her third Hologic WTA Tour title of the year on Sunday after defeating No.27 Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. more

In the first quarter of 2024, Poles were generally satisfied with the life of them and their families, according to a CBOS analysis. The situation in workplaces was also assessed positively. However, the political situation in recent months has been perceived critically.more

For the 52nd time, the Polish Ball took place in London on Saturday evening - the most important social and charitable event for Poles in Great Britain, the aim of which is to promote Polish culture, strengthen Polish-British relations and raise funds for noble causes.more

The American Space Agency NASA was ordered to develop lunar time - a system of measuring time relating to the Moon. This is because time passes faster on the Moon than on Earth - only by microseconds, which nevertheless matter in new technologies.more

Reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir crushed the women’s-only world record in winning the 44th London Marathon on Sunday, while Kenyan compatriot Alexander Mutiso Munyao pulled away from Ethiopian distance great Kenenisa Bekele to win the men’s race.more

“Misleading” and “inconsistent” labels make it hard for shoppers to know where their food comes from, the consumer champion Which? has said, as it found supermarket chains were selling products with “meaningless” statements on their packaging.more

Trains between Liverpool Street and Chingford will grind to a halt for 16 days including on the London Overground while a 150-year-old bridge is replaced. Network Rail will replace a railway bridge near Hackney Downs Park at the junction of Downs Park Road and Bodney Road between July 20 and August 4.more

Tens of thousands of people are protesting across the Canary Islands to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelago’s tourism strategy and a freeze on visitor numbers, arguing that the decades-old model has made life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for residents.more

Three Polish players - Bartosz Bereszyński, Sebastian Walukiewicz and Szymon Żurkowski were happy with Empoli's 1-0 victory over Napoli in the match of the 33rd round of the Italian top league. Piotr Zieliński, the visiting player, had no reasons to be satisfied.more

Nearly a quarter of UK five-to-seven-year-olds now have their own smartphone, Ofcom research suggests. Social media use also rose in the age group over last year with nearly two in five using messaging service WhatsApp, despite its minimum age of 13. The communications regulator warned parental enforcement of rules "appeared to be diminishing."more

In Venice, a system for booking visits to the city will soon be launched and a fee of 5 euros will be introduced for entry to the historic center on selected days from April 25 to July 14, and only for those tourists who do not stay there overnight. It is the first city in the world to carry out this experiment.more