Among the residents of England and Wales born outside the UK, the second largest group are people born in Poland, while 20 years earlier they were in 18th place, according to data published yesterday by the British statistical office ONS.more
A Chinese state-owned investment fund owns more than 250 properties in the UK, including warehouses and food distribution centres, through dozens of companies registered in tax havens, The Guardian revealed today.more
The HS2 rail line will go all the way to London Euston, the chancellor has said, following a report the scheme may no longer reach the capital's centre.
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A mathematician who was born in Russia and has spoken out against Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine was the UK’s biggest taxpayer last year. The Sunday Times tax list revealed on Friday that 100 wealthy people or families contributed nearly £5.2 billion in tax in the UK last year.more
Gangs involved in smuggling people into the UK across the Channel earned £183 million (almost a billion pounds) last year, according to an analysis by the opposition Labour Party cited by GB News.more
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
