If the North of England was a country it would have one of the lowest rates of investment of all the developed nations, with countries like Slovakia, Poland and Hungary all experiencing greater investment than both the UK and the north, a new report on regional inequality shows.more
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson earned nearly £1 million in a month doing extra work unrelated to parliamentary business, and has already earned £2.3 million since leaving office in September.more
A transgender person who, while male, raped two women and then made a legal sex change will not serve time in a women's prison, Scottish Chief Executive Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday.more
On the occasion of today's International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Polish ambassador to the UK, Piotr Wilczek, recalled the figures of Witold Pilecki, Aleksander Ładoś and Irena Sendler in the Daily Telegraph.more
Passenger car production in the UK has fallen in 2022 to its lowest level in 66 years, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reported yesterday.more
State-linked Russian and Iranian hackers are increasingly targeting British politicians, journalists and academics in their spear-phishing attacks, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned yesterday.more
The UK will begin training Ukrainian soldiers next week to handle and repair Challenger 2 tanks being sent to the country, while the aim is for the tanks themselves to arrive before the end of March, Deputy Defence Minister Alex Chalk announced yesterday.more
Passengers are more likely to have a less crowded journey if they travel on Mondays rather than mid-week, analysis of latest travel trends has revealed.
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To help Ukraine win the war, a huge arms factory must be built in Poland, as the current donation model is unsustainable in the long term, Tobias Ellwood, head of the defence committee in the UK House of Commons, said today.more
In a judgment delivered last Friday, the UK High Court cast doubt on the British citizenship status of children born in the UK before 2 October 2000 to those EU citizens who did not hold an indefinite residence permit at the time.more
The case of a transgender person who committed two rapes as a man but wants to serve time in a women's ward has heightened the controversy surrounding a law passed by the Scottish Parliament allowing legal gender reassignment on the basis of mere self-declaration.more
This year's theme of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity is the fight against sepsis, a serious life-threatening disease. The latest WHO research confirms that it is the leading cause of death in the world. Our portal joins the collection by launching an online piggy bank connected to the "main treasury" of the Orchestra.more
The UK Treasury said yesterday that it would look into the legislation that allowed Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the mercenary Wagner Group - despite the sanctions imposed on him - to take a British journalist to court.more
Marks & Spencer has warned that separate labelling for goods being sold in Northern Ireland would not be a viable change to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of failing to show leadership in ending discrimination against LGBT people after he appeared at a protest about equal marriage rights.more
The boss of Eurostar has said its trains between the UK and Paris are carrying 30% fewer passengers. Chief executive Gwendoline Cazenave said with post-Brexit border checks and current levels of border staff, there were "bottlenecks" in stations.more
The documentary series about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has caused quite a bit of controversy. Among others, people close to the royals have been critical of the production, accusing the makers of not asking Buckingham Palace representatives for any comment, contrary to what appeared in a message displayed at the beginning of the first episode. Director Liz Garbus that this was a lie.more
Manchester Airport has been named the worst airport by Which? with all three terminals featuring at the bottom of the best and worst airports in the UK list.
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