The Co-op has reported that crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour in its stores have increased by over a third in the past year. The company revealed there were more than 175,000 incidents in the first six months of this year – almost 1,000 every day.more

Record high temperatures that hit the UK in 2022 will be the norm in 40 years and will be below average by the end of this century, the Met Office has warned in its annual report released today.more

New rules ‘will be deferred a year from October 2024 to 2025’ in a bid to avoid supermarket price rises, officials confirmed after i revealed the delay.more

Sinead O'Connor's body was found yesterday morning at her home in London. She was pronounced dead at the scene and the circumstances of her death are not being treated as suspicious, the London Metropolitan Police said today.more

A record number of families are being forced to live in temporary accommodation, figures show – with experts blaming a “shameful” lack of social housing. more

Britain's medicines regulator is reviewing diabetes and weight loss products after some patients reported suicidal thoughts or self-harm, Reuters reported. Two weeks ago, the European Union took similar action.more

U.S. actor Kevin Spacey was cleared yesterday of all nine counts of sexual misconduct allegedly committed against four men in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013, according to prosecutors.more

Earmarked for departure on the Piccadilly Line in 2025, the trains are currently being tested near their European factory.more

It comes as the Met Office prepares to publish its annual report.more

London mayor seeks funds to help pay for car scrappage scheme amid push to expand capital’s clean air zone.more

The British government has shown an "appalling lack of understanding" of the threat posed by the activities of Russia's mercenary Wagner Group, especially in Africa, MPs on the foreign affairs committee assessed in a report released today.more

The media's perception of Poland and Poles in the UK began to change several years ago, but the war in Ukraine and Warsaw's active role in helping the country definitely accelerated the process, noted Professor Aleks Szczerbiak, a political scientist at the University of Sussex.more

The Polly Tearooms in Marlborough, owned by David Clark MBE and his wife Anne, was found to have racially discriminated against former employee Natalia Zeh at a tribunal in Bristol. more

The number of people living with major illnesses in England will rise nine times faster than the healthy working age population, projections show. By 2040 nearly one in five will have health conditions such as dementia and cancer, up from one in six in 2019.more

Whisky made in Wales has been given protected status like Welsh lamb. Single malt Welsh whisky is the first spirit to receive geographical indication (GI) status since UKGI was launched in 2021 after Brexit.more

The number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year. There were 109 potential victims, exploited for personal or financial gain, between January and March - twice as many as the same period in 2022.more

Mobile operator Virgin Media O2 is to slash up to 2,000 UK jobs, or 12% of its total workforce, by the end of this year. The figure includes 800 role reductions that were already announced, the BBC understands.more

Big pay increases for highly paid workers in London and the south-east have masked real wage cuts across large swathes of the economy and led to a widening in the UK’s geographical earnings gap, a leading thinktank has said.more

Even 10,000 Pounds are taken by dishonest lawyers from illegally residing migrants in the UK for the preparation of evidence for them to successfully apply for asylum, according to a journalistic investigation described today by the "Daily Mail".more

Children aged 10 and 11 will be able to use passport e-gates at the UK border from Monday, after the government announced a change to the rules.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that his country is working with Turkey to restore the grain agreement that Russia did not extend, which allowed for the export of Ukrainian grain.more

Despite the ongoing evacuation of tourists from the Greek island of Rhodes, which has been engulfed by massive fires, some airlines and travel agencies are continuing to send more tourists to the island, and are even offering discounts on stays at hotels damaged by the fire, the British daily 'i' reports today.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being urged by senior members of his Conservative Party to hold elections to the House of Commons in May, not autumn 2024, because then, according to party strategists, it is easiest to minimize losses, the Guardian reported.more

By restoring the graves of distinguished Poles in Great Britain, we are giving them historical justice - announced in London Wojciech Labuda, plenipotentiary of the Prime Minister for the Protection of Memorial Sites.more

The scale of exports of products manufactured in the UK to EU countries is growing, according to the latest statistics published by the Make UK group. As it was emphasized, the phenomenon takes place despite numerous warnings that Brexit will lead to the freezing of trade relations with the Communitymore