There are fewer than three weeks to go before the deadline to file self-assessment tax returns for the 2023-24 tax year, but millions of people still haven’t knuckled down and done theirs. This week HM Revenue & Customs said 5.4 million people had yet to file.more

Victims are being “let down time and time again” by police, a minister has said, as almost every violent or sexual offence went unsolved in hundreds of crime hotspots last year.more

Buckingham Palace confirmed today that King Charles III will attend commemorations on 27 January to mark the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's entry into the Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. British media had unofficially reported the visit in mid-December.more

Experts fear the decision by Meta to drop professional factcheckers from Facebook will exacerbate so-called boomer radicalisation in the UK. Even before what Keir Starmer described as “far-right riots” in England last summer, alarm bells were ringing amid fears older people were even more susceptible to misinformation and radicalisation than younger “digital natives”.more

Dozens of British women have reported their breasts ballooning in size after receiving a Covid vaccine, MailOnline revealed. The revelation comes days after shocking images showed how a 19-year-old Canadian woman's breast quadrupled in size in what experts believe is a rare reaction to Pfizer's Covid jab dubbed the 'Pfizer boob job'.more

UK travellers holding onto their pre-Brexit burgundy passports are being warned to urgently check their passport's expiry date before locking in any holiday plans. Despite no longer being issued after Brexit, the old-style passports remain valid until 2025 as long as they haven't expired.more

If you’re thinking about retiring this year, a south London borough with riverside walks and a “strong” sense of belonging was ranked as one of England’s best. Richmond was named by Telegraph Money as one of England’s best places to live, based on data created in collaboration with Savills Research.more

Crowded accident and emergency wards mean only 15% of department heads are confident they could deal with a major incident such as a terror attack or rail disaster, new research has revealed. In a survey of clinical directors and consultants at 71 emergency departments in England, all said their A&E was crowded, with more than 70% saying patients had to wait in corridors or ambulances.more

An impression - or possibly a fear - that 20-somethings are still hanging about in the family home is based on fact, an influential think-tank has concluded. The proportion of 25 to 34-year-olds still living with their parents has increased by more than a third in nearly two decades, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).more

A 19-year-old Syrian national died in the English Channel when a boat carrying a group of migrants trying to cross from Calais in France to Britain capsized, prosecutors in Boulogne-sur-Mer said yesterday.more

A push by HMRC to uncover details of how much people are earning from selling goods and services online in “side hustles” could cause confusion because of the way the UK’s tax system operates, a charity has warned.more

Nearly 400,000 fewer people from abroad have applied for UK work or study visas since strict new immigration rules came into force, Home Office figures revealed on Thursday. Provisional data shows 547,000 visa applications were received between April and December 2024, down from 942,500 in the same period in 2023.more

Sainsbury's has said it will raise hourly pay though it is cautious about recruiting new staff this year due to rising costs. The supermarket chain said wages would rise 5% to £12.60 but it will be introduced in two phases "to help manage a particularly tough cost inflation environment".more

A south London borough, known for hosting one of the world’s biggest tennis tournaments, has been named as one of the best places to live in the UK. The Times has named Merton as number four on a list of the UK’s best places to live, with Richmond and Sutton as number one and number eight respectively.more

An England-wide amber health alert has been extended to Tuesday as temperatures are expected to continue to fall over the weekend. The UK Health Security Agency extended the alert, which was previously in place until Sunday, meaning that cold weather impacts are likely to be felt across the whole health service.more

Vacancies for permanent jobs in the UK declined at their fastest pace for four years last month, according to a new survey that adds to the gloomy economic mood.more

A mother has appeared in court charged with murdering her son and attempting to murder her father. Karolina Zurawska, 41, from Gendros, Swansea, appeared before the city’s crown court on Friday morning. She is charged with murdering Alexander Zurawski, six, who was found dead at a property in Gendros on August 29.more

IT specialist James Howells has lost a first-instance lawsuit to recover the disk on which some $740 million worth of bitcoins are currently stored, the Cointelegraph website reported yesterday. Howells was seeking permission to search a landfill site where his old computer was mistakenly found years ago.more

A coalition of countries led by the UK and Latvia has pledged to provide 30,000 FPV drones to Ukraine, AFP reported, quoting a statement from the UK defence ministry. The group, which formed in 2024, has already drawn up an order worth £45 million.more

French President Emmanuel Macron met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer late last night and the main topic of their conversation was the situation in Ukraine, a British government spokesperson reported.more

London is the only major UK city getting older, a new analysis has revealed, due to post-Brexit migration and falling birthrates. The capital is bucking a trend which shows other big cities are getting younger and that rural and coastal regions are driving the overall ageing population.more

A large number of people are anticipated to take part in the yearly No Trousers Tube Ride when it returns to the London Underground this weekend. The event, which began in 2009, will fall on Sunday, January 12 this year. more

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) lobby group warned that Budget measures mean there is "little hope" of food prices "going anywhere but up" in the second half of 2025.more

The pandemic was supposed to usher in a cashless society, and many businesses have gone card-only – but Britons are finding it hard to let go of notes and coins. Cash is enjoying an unexpected comeback, reflecting the fact that, for many people, physical money remains the ultimate budgeting tool in tricky financial times.more

Plans for an upgraded NHS App to allow more patients in England to book treatments and appointments will be part of a package of measures unveiled by the government on Monday. The changes will allow patients who need non-emergency elective treatment to choose from a range of providers, including those in the private sector.more