Marks & Spencer has resumed its click and collect service 15 weeks after it stopped the service following a hugely damaging cyber attack. The retailer stopped taking orders on its website and app for clothing and home deliveries and also paused its in store collection service on 25 April.more

Experts found sky high level of faecal bacteria contamination across UK airports and airplane toilets. The lab tests revealed the worrying levels of damaging bacteria, which experts have now warned could leave holidaymakers extremely ill before they have even got to their destination.more

Ethnic minorities and people living in the most deprived areas of England are at increased risk of dying due to excess heat, according to research. A study, published in BMJ Public Health, is the first of its kind to assess the role of socio-environmental factors in the risk of heat-related deaths.more

Costa Coffee bosses have settled on yet another store closure, following a string of other branch closures in recent months. The coffee shop’s High Street store in Marlborough ceased trading in late July, with the staff members working at the store allegedly relocated to work at other branches.more

The UK's seas have had their warmest start to the year since records began, helping to drive some dramatic changes in marine life and for its fishing communities. The average surface temperature of UK waters in the seven months to the end of July was more than 0.2C higher than any year since 1980, BBC analysis of provisional Met Office data suggests.more

An estimated extra 140,000 construction workers would be needed for each of the next five years to help retrofit all social and private homes under the government's Warm Homes Plan, the BBC has learned. In its manifesto, Labour committed to insulating and upgrading five million homes, external over the next five years to cut bills for families and slash fuel poverty.more

Average private rents in Great Britain have fallen for the first time in five years as lower mortgage rates helped take some of the heat out of the rental sector, data shows. Years of above-inflation increases in rents have put the squeeze on many households but the estate agent Hamptons said the average rent on a newly let property fell by 0.2% year on year in July.more

A London Assembly Member has called on Sadiq Khan to reveal exactly what issue was identified on the new Piccadilly line trains which has seen the rollout delayed by about a year. The new trains have finally been tested in tunnels deep beneath London ahead of their rollout for public use, a milestone that's been hailed by the Mayor as "exciting".more

The British government announced today that it is extending its policy of deporting convicted foreign nationals to their home countries to include 15 countries, including India, Bulgaria and Australia, bringing the total number to 23. In 2024, the largest number of deported criminals came from Albania, Poland and Romania.more

Thousands of people took part in a march in central London yesterday, demanding that the British government increase pressure on Hamas to release Israeli hostages. The demonstrators also criticised the UK's decision to conditionally recognise Palestinian sovereignty next month.more

With temperatures climbing over 30C (86F) in the coming days, the fourth heatwave of the summer is forecast. Yellow heat health alerts, issued by the UK Health Security Agency, external have been issued for most of England, except the north-east and north-west region, from Monday to Wednesday.more

Fake Viagra is the UK’s most seized counterfeit drug according to data obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. 7.5 million doses of counterfeit Viagra (sildenafil) have been seized in the UK since April 2023, according to data secured by Oxford Online Pharmacy.more

Rail services in parts of southern England are being reduced because embankments have shrunk and disturbed the track after the sunniest spring in more than a century. Trains are unable to travel at full speed over embankments in Dorset and Devon that have contracted because of a lack of moisture in the soil.more

Britain has lost more than 1,100 pubs and restaurants since Rachel Reeves’s Budget, underlining the devastating impact of the Chancellor’s tax raid on the hospitality sector.more

Camden, Islington and Brent borough councils had the highest number of rat infestations reported in London from 2023 to mid-2025, according to data obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.more

Police have arrested 474 people at a demonstration in London in support of banned group Palestine Action. The Metropolitan Police said 466 protesters were arrested for supporting the group, five for assaults on police officers, two for public order offences, and one for a racially aggravated offence.more

The typical amount paid by first-time buyers for a home in a market town has increased by 2 per cent annually and by 26 per cent since 2020more

The national living wage could rise to as much as £12.86 an hour next year, the official advisory committee has estimated, as it gives new details on its annual review on the figure. The Low Pay Commission (LPC) says ministers are committed to delivering a “genuine living wage” in its latest remit report, which lays out the minimum that Britain’s minimum wage workers must be paid.more

Restriction zones aimed at “locking” violent offenders – rather than their victims – into specific areas when they are released from prison are to be introduced by the government in England and Wales. At the moment, exclusion zones are often used to keep an offender away from their victim’s home but many campaigners for women’s safety have long called for this to be flipped.more

The ITAKA Foundation – Center for the Search for Missing People, at the request of the family and in cooperation with the police, is conducting a search for Emil Adam Niewiadomski.more

Yesterday, mass anti-immigrant protests took place in several cities across the United Kingdom outside hotels where asylum seekers are staying. Clashes with counter-demonstrators and the police occurred in London, Norfolk, Leeds and Epping, among other places. Several people were arrested.more

Boulders at Stonehenge were taken to the monument's site by humans, rather than dragged there by glaciers, new scientific research claims. The ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England, was built with stones from all parts of Great Britain, including the smaller bluestone megaliths, most of which came from north Pembrokeshire, 140 miles (225km) away.more

Inner London boroughs will have less money to spend on services under the Government’s proposed reforms to how local authorities are funded, analysis has found.more

Activity in the UK construction sector fell last month at the sharpest rate since the height of the Covid pandemic amid a collapse in housebuilding, underscoring the challenge facing the government to meet its 1.5m new homes target.more

More than 60 London Underground staff could lose their jobs and face deportation due to a change in the Government’s immigration rules, it can be revealed. The bulk of the affected staff came to the UK on skilled worker visas and currently work in Tube stations.more