Wales has provisionally recorded its hottest day ever with the mercury hitting 37.1C in Hawarden, Flintshire. The Met Office said it had broken the previous record of 35.2C, set in the same place in 1990.more

European bison have been released into countryside near Canterbury, Kent, to help restore the area to its natural state.more

Parts of the United Kingdom are set to sizzle this week in a heatwave that’s set to bring scorching temperatures of up to the high-30s.more

London Luton Airport's runway has "melted" and a car has gone up in flames as Britain basks in record-breaking temperatures. Flights at the key airport have been thrown into chaos after the "surface detect was identified on the runway", with passengers now delayed by up to two hours. more

Amazon's online grocery shop is price matching hundreds of Tesco products as supermarkets battle for customers amid the soaring cost of living.more

The crackdown on drug use would also see casual users of drugs such as cocaine and cannabis face fines and be required to pay for a drug awareness course. It comes as recent statistics show more than three million people in England and Wales in 2019/20 reported using drugs in the past year.more

There is "no clear evidence" that the UK's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will stop risky Channel crossings, a group of MPs has said. In April, the UK said some people arriving on small boats from France would be sent to claim asylum in Rwanda - a policy meant to deter the journeys.more

Marks & Spencer supermarket chain has decided to remove use-by dates from over 300 food items. The goal is to "prevent food waste in society".more

Emirates Airlines has agreed to cap sales of its flights out of Heathrow until mid-August, after the airport asked carriers to scale back capacity. more

The five candidates for the new leader of the UK's ruling Conservative Party, who will also succeed Boris Johnson as the country's Prime Minister, clashed last night in a second TV debate - in the media's view, much sharper than the first.more

People trying to travel on London Underground were hit with disruption even before 8am this morning as the capital prepares for a potentially unprecedented heatwave. more

A British man who was captured by Russian forces in Ukraine appealed for help from Boris Johnson after being told he could be handed a death sentence. more

A Valentine's meal arranged by keepers at a Sussex Zoo has appeared to trigger the arrival of a capybara baby. Staff at Drusillas Park in Alfriston arranged the romantic meeting of Clementine and Augustus last February, resulting in the zoo's first capybara baby in 11 years.more

Commuters have been left feeling “too hot to breathe” as they battle the heat on the capital’s Tube network. Passengers told of their struggles to stay cool during the heatwave as the Standard rode busy routes with a thermometer this week- with temperatures hitting nearly a sweltering 35C.more

“They [Ukraine] are absolutely clear that they plan to restore the whole of their territory in terms of Ukraine, and they see a Russia that is struggling, a Russia that we assess has lost more than 30% of its land combat effectiveness,” Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff for the UK, said on BBC One’s Sunday Morning show.more

A sore throat might be the main symptom that suggests someone has developed COVID-19, according to new data. The next most prevalent symptoms are headache and blocked nose, according to the Zoe COVID study.more

More than 40,000 workers at telecoms giant BT are to take part in two 24-hour strikes in a row over pay, their union has announced. The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents the employees at BT, said that company bosses had "stuck two fingers up" to key workers.more

The agency has revealed the performance of water companies on pollution was the ‘worst we have seen for years’ in 2021.more

Experts of the Polish Economic Institute have warned that the UK faces a damaging recession later this year and raised fears that managers lacked experience in dealing with severe economic shocks.more

Tourists to London should face a new tourism levy to fund Transport for London (TfL), City Hall has heard. Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics told the London Assembly on Wednesday, July 13 a tourist tax would be worth “hundreds of millions of pounds” per year - and suggested it could be used to solve TfL's funding crisis. more

People are being encouraged to count the number of butterflies they see over the next three weeks - as part of efforts to protect them from extinction.more

Families have resorted to stealing essentials such as baby formula due to skyrocketing prices, MPs warned. more

Ambulance services are under intense pressure, with record numbers of callouts and the most urgent, category-one, calls last month. more

Carnivores and herbivores are well served by London restaurants but vegetarians are finding there is little in between on the menu. The Vegetarian Society and restaurant owners have lamented a trend at high end diners of cheese, eggs and other non vegan products being excluded from meals not containing meat or fish.more

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