A Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann has been arrested moments after landing in the UK. Julia Wandelt, 23, was held at Bristol Airport on suspicion of stalking Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann, her representative confirmed.more

More and more London boroughs are warning they will face bankruptcy without an huge injection of cash and a long term change in the way they funded. Seven councils in the capital this year applied for emergency Government money to balance the books. This is up from two in 2024.more

The UK is to offer a youth mobility scheme to EU countries, the website of ‘The Times’ newspaper has reported. If adopted, tens of thousands of young workers and students from the EU would be able to stay and work legally in the UK for two to three years.more

Domestic abuse specialists embedded in control rooms receiving 999 emergency calls will help “create force-wide cultural change”, said Jess Phillips as the first phase of “Raneem’s law” was rolled out across England.more

Boris Johnson is charging £121 for a handshake and a photograph before a live event in Edinburgh. The former Conservative prime minister will appear at the Usher Hall on 2 September for an event titled An Evening with Boris Johnson, which will also allow guests to take part in a question and answer session.more

British Defence Minister John Healey yesterday compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In doing so, he commented on US President Donald Trump's words that the Ukrainian leader is a ‘dictator without elections’.more

London is set to enjoy unseasonably warm weather as other parts of the UK is battered by gusts of up to 70mph. Weather warnings have been issued for wind and rain just as temperatures are increasing after a cold spell earlier this month. more

Taxpayers who failed to meet the January 31 self-assessment deadline could soon face escalating penalties and interest. However, there may be some respite, following an interest rate adjustment by HM Revenue & Customs. more

There are a record number of patients in hospital with Norovirus in England. Data from NHS England showed 1,160 patients a day were in hospital with the vomiting bug on average last week – double the level at the same period last year.more

Anti-Muslim hate in the UK surged to record levels last year, an organisation tracking Islamophobia has found. Almost 6,000 reports to Tell Mama were confirmed by it as anti-Muslim incidents, more than double the number two years ago, with men targeted more than women for the first time since the body was founded in 2012.more

The plan for Ukraine after a possible truce with Russia is to deploy up to 30,000 troops from Europe there, overseeing the ceasefire and US protection of the contingent, the UK's Daily Telegraph reported.more

About 500 London Underground passengers were injured last year after falling into the gap between Tube trains and the platform or getting caught in closing doors. A total of 1,893 “passenger-train interface” (PTI) incidents were reported to Transport for London in 2024, in which 522 people suffered injuries.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed his support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday during a conversation between the two politicians, the British head of government's office said in a statement.more

UK households who've financially supported family members with a large cash gift in the past seven years could be hit with an inheritance tax bill. The warning has come as HMRC reveals inheritance tax receipts soared to £5 billion from April to October 2024.more

UK inflation jumped sharply in the year to January, driven by rising food prices, air fares and an increase in private school fees. The higher-than-expected jump to 3% from 2.5% in December, means prices rose at the fastest pace for 10 months.more

Sir Sadiq Khan has given the green light for parking fines in London to increase to up to £160. The mayor has approved a request from the capital’s 33 boroughs to hike the cost of penalty charge notices (PCNs) in a bid to create more of a deterrent to “anti-social and obstructive parking”.more

A landlord has been ordered by a court to pay £37,000 after 18 people were found living in a terraced house in north London. Charles Egbiremolen, 57, was operating eight bedsits without a licence in a converted three-bedroom terraced house in Fairmead Crescent, Edgware.more

Millions of households face a greater than expected increase to their energy bills of about 5% from April after a slump in Europe’s gas storage levels caused market prices to climb, according to analysts.more

Plans have been revealed that could see Slough borough becoming part of London under the Government's devolution scheme. Options for the borough include Slough merging with a West London council or joining the Greater London Authority.more

Sadiq Khan will tell EU diplomats “Brexit was a mistake” and renew his backing for a youth mobility scheme as he argues strengthened ties with the bloc would help offset Donald Trump’s threatened tariff regime.more

London household face an average increase in council tax bills of almost £100 from April, according to research by The Standard. Total bills will range from almost £2,500 for a benchmark band D bill in Kingston, which will remain the capital’s most expensive borough for council tax, to just £990 in Wandsworth and just over £1,000 in Westminster.more

Companies are planning to cut jobs or recruit fewer people ahead of rises to National Insurance payments and wages, according to a survey of UK employers. Businesses questioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) also said they would raise their prices to cover increasing employment costs.more

Iranian authorities have charged a British tourist couple with espionage, the Iranian judicial portal Mizan reported today. The couple, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, were said to have ‘collected information in several provinces of Iran’ - the portal reported.more

Merton now has the worst roads in London, with four in 10 'unclassified' roads rated as 'poor' according to the borough's MP. This marks a dramatic increase from last year, when just 23% of roads were in poor condition, according to a study by the Liberal Democrats locally.more

The first of up to 390 prisoners are being released early in the latest attempt to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails. Emergency legislation was passed last year which allows eligible inmates sentenced to less than four years to be freed after 40% of their term, rather than 50%.more