The UK government is allowing Russian oligarchs to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars despite freezing their accounts, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing obtained documents and people familiar with the matter.more
Record numbers of police officers are quitting their jobs at forces in England and Wales, figures show. In the year to March, 4,668 officers left after a voluntary resignation.more
Almost two thirds of London renters (62 per cent) believe they do not earn enough to be able to save for a deposit to buy a home, according to exclusive research from homebuying and investment platform Allbricks.more
The latest travel casualty of the UK being outside the European Union’s Schengen area: flights to Catania in Sicily.
The airport, which is the main gateway to the island, closed on 16 July because of fire damage to a terminal building.more
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.
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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
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
