The NHS in England is increasingly reliant on doctors and nurses recruited from outside the UK and EU, analysis has found. more

Household energy bills will change every three months under new plans aimed at avoiding price shocks. more

Some sanctioned Russian oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin are exploiting a UK loophole by setting up companies that do not have to disclose their true owners, according to an investigation by the BBC and the website Finance Uncovered.more

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak clearly won - according to the audience gathered in the studio - last night's televised debate between the candidates for Britain's new prime minister. But it is still head of diplomacy Liz Truss who is the election favourite.more

Monkeys, penguins, and lions are just some of the animals you would normally expect to see on a visit to ZSL London Zoo. But head to its reptile house in search of the endangered Siamese crocodile and you will find something that looks much too inanimate to be drawing a crowd of zoo visitors to watch it "in action". It's a handbag that has been made from the skin of one such crocodile.more

A campaign group is calling for people to stop paying their energy bills – and it comes as BP reported its biggest quarterly profit for 14 years.more

The Bank of England has warned the UK will fall into recession this year as it raised interest rates from 1.25% to 1.75% in a bid to curb soaring prices. It expects the economy to shrink in the final three months of this year and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.more

Transport for London (TfL) has received a final funding offer from the government in order to help it recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said. more

One in 20 people in the UK who are not in work and not looking for paid work are suffering from long Covid, new figures suggest. more

Millions of people in London are facing a possible hosepipe ban, Thames Water has said. The company, the capital's biggest water supplier, said its reservoirs, rivers and aquifers were lower than usual for the time of year.more

Marks & Spencer has stopped selling disposable barbecues in its stores across the UK. The supermarket said it wanted "to help protect open spaces and reduce the risk of fires".more

Caregivers of adult people who have migrant status and live permanently with their wards, are at risk of being a victim of modern slavery, warn British scientists - authors of the report, prepared for the Trust for London foundation.more

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last night rejected an application by the parents of Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old English boy who suffered a severe brain injury, to postpone disconnecting him from his life support equipment.more

A woman in north London says she feels victimised after dozens of tourists turned up at her home when her private address was placed on the Booking.com accommodation website.more

The UK's leading food bank charity has warned of a winter crisis as demand increases but donations drop off amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis.more

British Foreign Minister Liz Truss's advantage over former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak in the election of the new Conservative party leader has risen to 38 percentage points. - according to a YouGov poll for The Times daily.more

Inflation will soar to “astronomical” levels over the next year forcing the Bank of England to raise interest rates higher and for longer than previously expected, according to a leading thinktank.more

A hosepipe and sprinkler ban is being imposed on people across Kent and Sussex, South East Water has confirmed.more

London Overground staff will join Tube workers in strike action later this month after talks between unions and transport bosses collapsed. more

China's ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang, has threatened "serious consequences" if British lawmakers visit Taiwan, Reuters reported, citing information in today's UK newspaper The Guardian.more

Albanian gangs transporting people through the English Channel to the UK are openly advertising their services on TikTok, despite the fact that it is against the platform's regulations, the British GB News station revealed yesterday evening.more

The British Conservative Party was forced to delay voting for its new leader and to change its rules after the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) warned of a possible cyberattack, the Daily Telegraph revealed.more

British Airways yesterday evening suspended the sale of tickets for flights from London Heathrow airport on domestic and European routes for the next week, on August 15 inclusive. This applies, inter alia, to flights to Poland.more

A man who broke into Windsor Castle grounds with a crossbow on Christmas Day was charged and will be brought to trial on August 17, London Metropolitan Police said yesterday.more

Last week, off the coast of Lily of the Valley, a woman was bitten in the leg by a blue shark, and this is believed to be the first shark attack in British waters in more than 150 years, reports the portal Conwall Live.more