The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has announced that he will abolish the House of Lords within his first term as prime minister. He has a good chance of doing so, as Labor is clearly leading in the polls.more

Industry experts say the economic shocks of COVID, Brexit and the war in Ukraine have put sustained pressure on businesses, especially those in the entertainment sector - and now the energy crisis may prove the tipping point.more

Christmas dinner will be nearly 22% more expensive this year than in 2021, according to new research for the BBC.more

Employees are to get the right to request flexible working from the moment they start a job under new government legislation, in a move welcomed by unions, who urged ministers to go further in terms of making such arrangements the norm.more

Locking up people who enter the country illegally and barring them from ever settling in the UK are “options” under consideration by Suella Braverman and No 10 as the government puts a crackdown on small boats at the heart of its agenda.more

More than 600 staff set to walk out over pay, with Unite saying some workers worried about becoming homeless themselves.more

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenski was today named Person of the Year 2022 by the "Financial Times". "I am more responsible than brave... I just don't like to let people down" - announced the laureate.more

Currys has stopped using Royal Mail for parcel deliveries "for now" following a wave of strike action at the postal services firm. more

Talks aimed at averting train strikes before Christmas are expected to continue on Monday, after the RMT union rejected an initial offer by the group representing train companies. more

Households are switching from buying fresh food to cheaper frozen goods as the cost of living bites into budgets, the boss of Tesco has said.more

The crown that Britain's King Charles III will wear at next year's coronation has been taken from the Tower of London fortress to be sized to fit the monarch's head, Buckingham Palace has revealed.more

The British government is considering the involvement of the military to minimise any disruption resulting from a wave of strikes before Christmas, Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi confirmed yesterday.more

James Hewitt hit the headlines when he revealed in the mid-1990s that he was having an affair with Princess Diana, then still married to Prince Charles. Now the 64-year-old former British army officer is in the news for another reason. He has just returned from his first rescue mission in Ukraine and is going on yet another before Christmas.more

Forecasters have warned that heavy snow showers could batter northern Scotland this week as temperatures are set to fall across the UK as an “Arctic blast” strikes. The Met Office today issued a yellow weather warning covering the north of Scotland on Wednesday. The forecaster said that road and rail services could be impacted by the snow.more

In the UK, there will not be a single day without some kind of strike until 24 December, with two or three professional groups going on strike at the same time for most of the three weeks remaining before Christmas.more

The King should be officially separated from the Church of England, campaigners have said, after official figures this week showed the country is no longer majority-Christian.more

A Russian oligarch has been arrested at his multi-million pound London mansion on suspicion of money laundering, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) reported yesterday.more

As an open war declared on the rest of the British royal family by Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan, the British media assessed the announcement of a documentary series dedicated to the couple broadcast by Neflix.more

The annual Happy at Home Index looks at the impact of factors such as a sense of belonging and access to green space on overall happiness.more

Here is a look at the rates PIP claimants will get in 2023-24 as well as details about who is eligible for the benefit.more

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg against the British government's decision to extradite him to the United States, Reuters reported. "We confirm that the application has been received," the ECtHR said in a statement.more

The exhibition "Young Poland: An Arts and Crafts Movement", co-organized by the National Museum in Krakow and co-curated by the director of the Krakow Museum, Andrzej Szczerski, received the Curatorial Exhibition Prize, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage announced.more

A very poor result for the UK's ruling Conservative Party in its first electoral test since Rishi Sunak took over as Prime Minister, with the grouping achieving its worst result since 1857 in a by-election in the Chester constituency.more

All indications are that 2022 will be the warmest year on record for temperature measurements in the UK, the Met Office has reported.more

The first trailer for Harry and Meghan's highly anticipated documentary series for Netflix has arrived with viewers given their first glimpse of what they can expect from the six-part series. more