The government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups in England as part of what it calls a "war on plastic".more
The number of new Covid cases reported in Scotland has hit another record high of 7,113. The figure tops the previous high of 6,835 which was recorded on Friday.more
A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned.more
A solicitor accused of using syringes to inject blood into food at three west London supermarkets has appeared in court. Leoaai Elghareeb is charged with contaminating or interfering with goods with intent at three stores – a Tesco Express, Little Waitrose and Sainsbury’s Local - on Fulham Palace Road.more
The founder of an animal shelter in Afghanistan is "safe" after leaving the country, his charity has said. Paul "Pen" Farthing was attempting to get his staff and rescue animals out of Kabul when they became caught up in Thursday's airport bomb blasts.more
The ongoing weekend, which is extended in Great Britain due to Monday's free Monday, is the last chance to see the exhibition "Conversations with God: Jan Matejko's Copernicus" at the National Gallery in London.more
People infected with the Delta variant of Covid-19 carry twice the risk of needing to be treated in hospital than those with the Alpha strain, a study has suggested.more
Businesses have been told to prioritise hiring UK-based workers rather than relying on labour from abroad to fix a shortage of lorry drivers. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng rejected calls from firms to loosen immigration rules, saying it would be a "short-term temporary solution".more
Gatwick Airport is hoping to fly as many as 75 million passengers each year by 2038 under renewed plans to convert its emergency runway for routine use. The airport, the country’s second largest by passenger numbers, announced a public consultation on its scheme – initially proposed in 2018 – to turn its northern runway into normal use.more
British Queen Elizabeth II will take part in the UN climate summit COP26, which will be held on November 1-12 in Glasgow, Scotland, the organizers announced yesterday.more
Two adult British citizens and a teenage child of another British citizen died in terrorist attacks on Thursday near Kabul airport, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said yesterday. From August 13, British soldiers evacuated 13,708 people from Afghanistan, while there were still about 800-1,100 authorized to leave.more
70% of people have worked in a toxic workplace, according an Instantprint study. More than half of those surveyed said they’d quit a job if the workplace didn’t feel healthy, which is particularly true among female workers who are more likely to take this seriously.more
The highest number of new coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic - 6,835 - was recorded in the past 24 hours in Scotland, it was reported yesterday. Though it is the third record in four days, Scottish government chief Nicola Sturgeon rules out a new lockdown for the time being.more
An expert claims Prince Harry thinks his brother Prince William is also ‘trapped’ in the Royal Family like he says he was.
Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the younger brother’s relationship and subsequent marriage to Meghan Markle ‘changed him’ and made him come to a realisation.
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A study has shown that just under half of women feel unsafe when walking home alone at night. The new research shows that 49% of women don't feel safe while walking alone in busy places, compared to only one in five men feeling this way.more
The analysis of data on over 29 million vaccinations and almost 1.8 million COVID-19 infections confirms that vaccine complications are incomparably less frequent than complications caused by the coronavirus. This research is once again fundamental for vaccination, say University of Oxford specialists in the British Medical Journal.more
The number of burglaries reported to the police rose as lockdown restrictions eased and people started to leave their homes in larger numbers, according to an insurer.more
The attack in Kabul, and more broadly: the entire withdrawal from Afghanistan, will inevitably raise further questions, not only in the US, about whether President Joe Biden is suitable for this position - the British "The Times" writes in an editorial comment.more
Marble Arch Mound has been attracting an unexpected new crowd after it was branded the UK’s worst tourist attraction. Tourists have now been keen to see the £6 million artificial hill and find out for themselves just how bad it is following weeks of bad publicity.more
A number of animal activists have been arrested after the Queen Victoria Memorial water fountain was vandalised with fake blood. The fountain, a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, was covered in the fake blood as part of widespread environmental protests around the city.more