British business is looking for a new "safe haven" to stay in the single and rich EU market and avoid significant bureaucratic burdens. According to the data of the German group Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), Germany is of particular interest to the British.more
It's going to be a busy weekend on public transport coming up! A perfect storm of a good weather forecast and huge road closures due to the RideLondon event this weekend mean services much busier than usual this weekend. more
The group Animal Rising reported yesterday that three of its activists broke into a farm on the Royal Estate of Sandringham in eastern England and abducted three lambs from it in order, they claim, to save them from slaughter. After the action, the activists turned themselves in to the police.more
3,793 illegal immigrants entered the UK in the first three months of this year, down 20 per cent on the same period last year, the UK Home Office reported yesterday.more
Police have arrested a man who yesterday afternoon hit a gate leading to Downing Street in London, where the residence of the British Prime Ministers is located, with his car. No one was injured. The incident is not currently being treated as a terrorist incident, the London Metropolitan Police reported.more
Parcel delivery fraud is “by far” the most common scam faced by the public so far this year, according to Citizens Advice figures.
Almost half of people targeted by scammers (49%) found themselves involved in a malicious parcel delivery scam, with fraudsters attempting to get hold of personal information or bank details.more
The Wee Hub, an enclave of artists and social activists, located in the abandoned former department store of Edinburgh's Leith district - is home to the unique Pianodrome showroom. It offers old but thoroughly renovated pianos previously thrown out of British homes. Each of these instruments can be "adopted" by making a symbolic donation.more
UK net migration rose to a record 606,000 last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Net migration is the difference between the number of people arriving in the UK, and the number leaving.more
Households will be more than £400 a year better off on average from July after the cap on energy bills was slashed following steep falls in wholesale gas and electricity prices.more
Sadiq Khan's new book Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency, details his goal to make London a cleaner city. The Mayor of London suffered a minor heart attack while on stage at COP27, he has revealed in his new book.more
Doctors will be required to give patients options including travelling further for healthcare or going to private alternatives as Rishi Sunak tries to fulfil his promise to cut NHS waiting times.more
Helen Holland, who was hit by a police motorcycle from a column escorting Princess Sophie, sister-in-law of King Charles III, died after two weeks in hospital. According to Buckingham Palace, her death deeply saddened the Duchess of Edinburgh.more
Holiday fraudsters conned UK consumers out of more than £15m last year – twice as much as the year before – according to the UK’s scam reporting centre.more
David Cameron said critics of the government’s plan to send small boat migrants to Rwanda should stop the attacks unless they “have a better answer”.
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A 33-year-old former maths teacher from an Oxford secondary school has been disbarred for addressing a female pupil who claims to be a boy according to her biological sex, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. According to the daily, this is likely to be the first such case in the UK.more
At a meeting last night with representatives of the British Polish community, Polish President Andrzej Duda thanked them for cultivating Polishness, but also encouraged them to return to a country whose economy, he stressed, was growing rapidly.more
The UK's annual inflation rate in April was 8.7 per cent, marking the first time it has fallen below 10 per cent since August last year. - reported the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) today. However, food prices are still rising very rapidly.more
In the UK, up to 25 per cent more cars fell prey to thieves last year than in 2021. Currently, the most theft-prone brands are Land Rovers. And particularly the Range Rover Velar R-Dyn.more
London Underground workers have voted in favour of extending their mandate to continue taking strike action for another six months, the RMT union has announced.more
Foreign students coming to the UK from January next year will no longer be able to bring dependent family members to the UK, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced yesterday.more
