A controversial Holocaust memorial and education centre is to be built in the heart of Westminster at a cost of more than £100m after the government gave it the go-ahead following a public inquiry.more

Plans are being drawn up to protect London from catastrophic flooding which could see a glass wall built along a stretch of the Thames.more

Winds of up to 75mph are expected to lash south-west England today as newly named Storm Evert gathers pace.more

It may be the only place in the UK where people shell out £6 for a pint without batting an eyelid.more

Covid vaccine passports have effectively been introduced for users of the NHS app in England via a change to the app’s features.more

University students will get "advance warning" if they are required to have vaccines before moving to halls of residence, Dominic Raab has said.more

Google “unfairly and excessively” charges people for digital purchases in its Play Store, a new legal action brought against the tech giant in the UK claims. The action is seeking damages of up to £920 million on behalf of 19.5 million Android phone users in the UK.more

Yesterday, the Polish Episcopate expressed solidarity with the Polish diaspora after a fire in a church in Glasgow. "We assure you of spiritual closeness and solidarity with the priests and all the faithful", wrote the clergy.more

Police recorded around four times as many antisemitic incidents in London during May’s war between Israel and Gaza than at any time in the last three years, the city’s force said Thursday.more

The number of people on furlough has fallen sharply, with young people moving off the government scheme fastest, new figures show. At the end of June, 1.9 million people were still on furlough, the lowest level since the start of the pandemic and half a million fewer than in May.more

The UK is already undergoing disruptive climate change with increased rainfall, sunshine and temperatures, according to scientists.more

A draft law in the Scottish Parliament was amended to exempt the Queen's land from measures to encourage green energy after her lawyers raised "concerns".more

Infections prevented by COVID-19 vaccines in the UK has risen to 22 million as the number of deaths prevented as a result of vaccinations rises to 60,000, latest official data released here on Thursday said.more

Herd immunity in the UK is a “mathematical impossibility” without vaccinating children – and even then may not be obtained, a leading scientist has warned. more

A 30% increase in the daily congestion charge for driving into central London will be made permanent under Transport for London (TfL) plans. TfL had said the rise - from £11.50 to £15 a day - was a temporary measure when it was introduced in June 2020.more

The end of remaining coronavirus rules in England on 16 August for those fully vaccinated is "nailed on", the prime minister says. In an interview with radio station LBC, Boris Johnson said no review was needed before lifting the last restrictions.more

Double-jabbed Brits are reporting an unexpected symptom after catching Covid. The main indicators of the disease are still loss of smell, persistent cough, and fever. But people who have been vaccinated are now more likely to report sneezing as a coronavirus symptom than those yet to get jabbed.more

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the wedding of the British Crown Prince Charles to Diana Spencer. The ceremony was then called the wedding of the century, but problems arose in the marriage fairly quickly and ended in an equally loud divorce.more

About one in three middle-aged people has multiple chronic health issues, a long-running British study suggests. The 1970 British Cohort Study has been periodically tracking the lives of about 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week.more

An inner city oasis of lush green foliage with panoramic views of the capital were what Londoners were promised from the much-anticipated Marble Arch Mound.more

A British watchdog group said Twitter allowed antisemitic statements to remain on its platform, including tweets saying “Hitler was right,” even after the posts were brought to the attention of its staff.more

Irena Jendrycha was liberated from an Austrian concentration camp just 12 minutes before they were to be murdered. She has lived in Dundee most of her adult life but still has not been told whether or not she has a 'right' to stay in the UK.more

The lifeboat crews that help pull illegal immigrants out of the Channel waters are doing so for humanitarian reasons and do not deserve to be insulted, said Mark Dowie, head of British water rescue NGO RNLI.more

An area famed for its slate industry has joined Egypt's Pyramids, India's Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon to become a Unesco World Heritage Site.more

The number of new COVID-19 cases recorded in the UK has risen after seven consecutive days of falls, according to government data. The country has reported 27,734 new infections and 91 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period.more