British Airways has announced that it has suspended the sale of tickets for flights from London Heathrow Airport on domestic and European routes for at least one week. Therefore, this also applies to flights to Poland.more
A British appeals court yesterday rejected a motion to postpone the end of life support for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, who had sustained severe brain damage.more
The previous month was the driest July in England since 1935, the UK Met Office reported yesterday. In some regions it was the July with the least amount of rainfall in the history of measuring.more
All fresh produce sold at Waitrose stores - including vegetables and fruit - will no longer have a best before date. The goal is to combat food waste.more
More than £22,000 has been raised for a 100-year-old Polish veteran of Squadron 300, Second Lieutenant Jan Stangryciuk, who was robbed at his home in London, the fundraising organiser, the British Poles portal, has announced.more
Members of the UK's ruling Conservative Party began voting today for the party's new leader. The winner - Foreign Minister Liz Truss or former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak - will replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister on 6 September.more
The UK has given some of the least generous support to help drivers with high fuel costs among countries in Europe that have taken action, the RAC has said.
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom has been urged to do more to help broadband and mobile customers who pay a "loyalty penalty" for staying with their provider.
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European countries have eased efforts to restrict trade in Russian oil as they fear a rise in the price of the commodity and a reduction in energy supplies, writes the Financial Times today.more
The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund accepted a £1 million donation in 2013 from the half-brothers of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader killed by US special forces in Pakistan in 2011, the Sunday Times reported yesterday.more
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra - an ensemble made up of Ukrainian musicians who fled the country before the war and who had already played in various European orchestras - played yesterday at The Proms, London's famous summer classical music festival.more
The outgoing prime minister and his wife are hosting family and friends at 18th-century Daylesford House to celebrate their nuptials with a wider circle, after the pandemic forced them to scale back festivities last year.more
Footage from Diana, Princess of Wales’ 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir will air on Sky next month after the BBC said it would never again license it to other broadcasters.more
Colchester has about 120,000 residents and it's one of eight towns that were awarded city status during the Queen 's Platinum Jubilee. It was also the capital of England from the fifth to eighth centuries during the Roman occupation of what would become England - and there's plenty to do in the soon-to-be city. more
In order to reduce the population of gray squirrels, which, as an invasive species, threaten the native red squirrels, British scientists intend to give them a contraceptive specially created for this purpose.more
The government is refusing to name the councils excluding some households from receiving a vital support payment to help with the cost-of-living crisis.more
A legal challenge calling for greater media scrutiny of the decision to keep Prince Philip's will private has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.more
Hospitals in the Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have one of the longest patient wait times for surgery in England, according to a Daily Mail investigation. The Trust placed at number eight on the list of hospitals with patients waiting more than the NHS recommended waiting time of 18 weeks. more
