The first people seen crossing the English Channel in a small boats in 2024 have arrived on Kent shores, nearly a month after the last arrivals. A group believed to be migrants were seen arriving in Dover after being picked up in a Border Force vessel on Saturday morning.more

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is likely to delay ruling on orders halting deportation flights from the UK to Rwanda and may be "tempted" to drag this out until after the House of Commons elections, the Daily Telegraph wrote yesterday.more

British pupils will be able to learn British Sign Language (BSL) in schools from the start of the 2025/26 school year. According to Euronews, the classes will be optional, available to students in the final years of secondary school, or 15- and 16-year-olds.more

The UK cold snap is forecast to continue with temperatures expected to plummet to below freezing next week.more

Brexit has cost the UK £140bn so far, a figure that could rise to £311bn by the middle of the next decade, according to an analysis published yesterday by Cambridge Econometrics.more

Not a single boat with illegal immigrants has entered the UK across the Channel for the past 25 days, the longest such period since February/March 2020, according to Home Office figures released yesterday.more

The Scottish Government will follow in the footsteps of England and Wales and also ban the breeding, sale and ownership of American XL Bully dogs, Scotland's First Minister (First Minister) Humza Yousaf announced yesterday. Dogs of this breed have bitten at least 14 people to death in the UK in the last two years.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak travelled to Kiev today with assurances of increased military aid to the Ukrainian military, the British government has reported. London will allocate £2.5 billion in the new fiscal year 2024/25, 200 million more than in previous years, it added.more

When it comes to children's health, we want to be a 'nanny state' - announced yesterday the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, as he announced a series of measures his incoming government would take to improve the health of the youngest.more

Greggs has revealed plans to open up to another 160 stores in the year ahead as it cheered a strong end to 2023. The high street bakery chain opened a record 220 new shops over 2023, taking its total estate to 2,473.more

A robot which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential potholes is to be tested on public roads in Hertfordshire. The Autonomous Road Repair System (ARRES) robot identifies cracks or holes and fills them to stop surface water getting in.more

The London to Birmingham stretch of the HS2 railway could cost more than £65bn in current prices, the boss of the company building it has said. Sir Jonathan Thompson said a rise in the cost of materials such as concrete and steel over the past few years have added £8bn to £10bn. In October the government cancelled the sections between the West Midlands, Manchester, and the East Midlands.more

Some people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are entitled to cold weather payments after prolonged periods of below-zero temperatures. In Scotland, those on low incomes and benefits may receive a winter heating payment, which does not depend on how low the temperature falls.more

Most key NHS targets have been missed for at least seven years across the UK, BBC News research shows. The review of records going back 20 years also reveals Northern Ireland and Wales have never met the four-hour accident-and-emergency (A&E) target. The analysis focused on the three key hospital targets, covering A&E, cancer and waiting times for planned care.more

Sainsbury’s won shoppers from all its major grocery rivals this Christmas but sales at its Argos chain dived, in a worrying sign for high street rivals. The UK’s second-biggest supermarket reported an 8.6% rise in grocery sales in the six weeks to 6 January but Argos sales fell 4.2% in the same period as shoppers reined in spending on electrical goods and furniture.more

Grant Shapps suggested yesterday that a retaliatory attack against Yemen's Houthi rebels for their shelling of merchant ships and warships was imminent, British media report.more

More than 700 British postal workers wrongly accused of theft years ago and convicted will be cleared of the charges through an act of parliament and will receive financial compensation, announced Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more

The number of child sex abuse offences in England and Wales has more than quintupled in the past 10 years - from 20,000 in 2013 to 107,000 in 2022 - and more than half of these were committed by other children, according to a police report published yesterday.more

The British media describe the recent events in Poland related to the arrest of Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik as a "dramatic escalation" and "unprecedented", although their reports are rather informative, without indicating who is right in the dispute.more

Sadiq Khan has confirmed when Transport for London (TfL) fares will go up. The Mayor of London also responded to questions over whether the way customers pay could become 'dynamic'.more

In December, the final episodes of the hit series 'The Crown' hit the Netflix streaming platform. However, this is not the end of the attractions prepared by the creators of this production about Elizabeth II and the British royal family. On 11 January, the London auction house Bohnams will launch an exhibition of nearly 450 costumes, props and set pieces from the series.more

Rogue social housing landlords could be forced to repair mouldy homes within 24 hours as part of government proposals after a toddler's death. Campaigners have demanded reforms after two-year-old Awaab Ishak died from mould exposure at his Rochdale home in 2020.more

London is the world's slowest city for drivers because of widespread 20mph speed limits, analysis suggests. Journeys of 10km (6.2 miles) in central London took an average of 37 minutes and 20 seconds last year, according to location technology company TomTom.more

British Airways has extended its minimum connection time between flights at Heathrow Airport. It has been increased from one hour to 75 minutes in an effort to reduce the number of passengers who miss onward flights.more

Amazon faces fresh industrial action in the UK, after members of the GMB union at a new fulfilment centre in Birmingham voted to strike over pay and conditions later this month.more