Facebook and Instagram’s new subscription service allowing users to pay for verification checkmarks will now be rolled out in the UK. more

Water and sewerage companies in England today publicly apologized for the widespread discharge of untreated sewage into the sea and rivers and announced an additional £10bn investment to upgrade infrastructure.more

The British government is offering at least some Albanian prisoners £1,500 and a reduced sentence in exchange for their deportation to their country of origin, the BBC revealed yesterday. It also reported that more than half of the illegal Albanian migrants sent back home are prisoners.more

Penalties that should be imposed on foreign companies that own property in the UK and fail to disclose their ownership structure, despite being required to do so, run to a billion pounds, but the government has yet to impose these penalties, the BBC reveals today.more

The UK's pet owners have been warned about a surge in lungworm cases among dogs.more

E.On Next, Good Energy and Octopus Energy have paid £8 million over compensation failures after lengthy delays in producing final bills to more than 100,000 customers when they switched suppliers, regulator Ofgem said.more

Greggs has reached an agreement with a London council allowing it to stay open till 2am - and you will still be able to get a sausage roll. more

The Bank of England's top economist has said he is sorry for using "inflammatory" language to suggest people must accept they are poorer.more

The number of adults struggling to pay their bills and debts has soared to nearly 11 million, new figures show.more

As the cost of living crisis continues, more much-needed financial help for those on low incomes is incoming. With energy bills, council tax and water bills all having risen lately - plus the cost of phones and broadband going up - most households are feeling the squeeze.more

Landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England. A new law to be tabled in Parliament would abolish no-fault evictions and end bans on tenants claiming benefits.more

The £2 cap on bus fares in England has been extended again until the end of October, the government has announced.more

Council of Europe member states must send a clear message that they will support Ukraine as long as necessary, but they must also learn from this war and prepare to confront other threats such as illegal immigration, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appealed in Reykjavik.more

Nine online talking-therapy treatments for anxiety or depression have been given the green light to be used by the NHS in England.more

A rich collection of human and animal preparations, collected by John Hunter, an 18th-century surgeon-anatomist, has been on display in London since yesterday. The Hunterian Museum has reopened after a six-year hiatus.more

The number of people not working in the UK due to long-term sickness has risen to a new record, official figures show. more

British men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women's babies, a BBC investigation has found. more

An unusual discovery ended with the valuation of a collection of artworks belonging to a British family. Among the paintings whose value was to be estimated by the experts of Christie's auction house were two portraits that the subsequent analysis showed were painted by Rembrandt. Both works will go up for auction in July.more

The former UKIP leader made the blunt admission as evidence grows over the economic harm to Britain of quitting the European Union.more

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman is increasingly positioning herself as a candidate to replace Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party and, consequently, prime minister, according to British media reports.more

A TikTok star racially abused a Polish police officer after she was arrested for drinking in her car in an Asda car park, a court has heard. more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was said to have told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski during a meeting yesterday that Britain would support his country's NATO membership after the war, the "i" daily reported today.more

The UK has once again fallen further down a major ranking of LGBTQ-friendly countries in Europe. more

On the eve of a summit of Council of Europe heads of state and government in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for concerted action to curb illegal immigration.more

Homeowners don't always need to spend a fortune to completely transform their home. There are many ways that you can inject personality into your property without breaking the bank - including DIY, upcycling and shopping smart.more