The latest new coin design featuring the late Queen Elizabeth II is a 50p coin as part of a collector's series celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter book, the Royal Mint has announced.more
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
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
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
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.
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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
