A woman, said by police to have bought cryptocurrency now worth billions of pounds using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, has been sentenced to 11 years and eight months for money laundering.more

US President Donald Trump has said he has an "obligation" to sue the BBC over the way a section of his speech was edited in a Panorama documentary. Speaking to Fox News, he said his 6 January 2021 speech had been "butchered" and the way it was presented had "defrauded" viewers.more

Taking to the skies in its unmistakable white and orange aircraft, EasyJet is celebrating 30 years since its first ever flight from Luton Airport to Glasgow. Since 1995, the budget airline has massively grown its business and brand – in part thanks to the TV documentary Airline.more

The Mayor of London is urging people to avoid websites selling fake tickets to the capital's New Year's Eve fireworks display. Sadiq Khan says using anything but official partner Ticketmaster will lead to scams and overinflated prices.more

The rate of UK unemployment has risen to 5% in the three months to September, showing signs the jobs market has weakened, according to new official figures.more

The British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reported that organised crime groups have begun illegally manufacturing counterfeit weight loss drugs on an industrial scale, according to a report in today's “Guardian”.more

The European Commission is demanding that the UK contribute between €4 billion and €6 billion to the €150 billion SAFE EU armaments programme, according to yesterday's “Telegraph” newspaper, citing EU sources.more

Canadian David Szalay, who lives in Budapest, author of the novel ‘Flesh’, received the 2025 Booker Prize yesterday at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London. Polish readers had the opportunity to get to know him as the author of the books ‘London’, “Turbulence” and ‘What is a Man’.more

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has woken in hospital and spoken with his wife for the first time. Samir Zitouni, 48, was a member of the catering crew on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on 1 November when an attacker struck as it passed through Cambridgeshire.more

BBC chairman Samir Shah admitted yesterday that the editing of Donald Trump's remarks, published a week before the US presidential election, was an "error of judgment." In a statement sent to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Shah apologized for the error.more

Plans have been unveiled for a new free dental surgery in East London that could treat more than 5,000 patients in one of the UK’s worst-affected areas for oral health. A new, free dentist surgery could open in Barking town centre if council leaders approve funding this week.more

As summer's heat gives way to autumn's crisp arrival across the British countryside, many are swapping seaside trips and outdoor dining for forest walks and country strolls. But for those hunting for something truly special this season, an incredible castle just under an hour and a half's drive offers visitors what feels like stepping straight into a fairy tale.more

Whistleblowers of large-scale tax fraud will soon start to receive millions of pounds in exchange for information under a new US-style incentive programme that is the first of its kind in the UK.more

London is in full autumnal season as leaves of every colour transform its royal parks, while cascades of falling leaves have led to disruption on Tube lines. So far in November, temperatures have remained unusually mild for this time of year, staying firmly in the double digits and the trend looks set to continue for another seven days, before the cold ushers in. more

The Home Secretary is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month, the BBC has learned. Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system - seen as one of the toughest in Europe. It is understood officials have been looking at Denmark's tighter rules on family reunion and restricting most refugees to a temporary stay in the country.more

Two prisoners are still at large after being mistakenly freed last year, the BBC understands. Another two, who were set free in error in June 2025, also remain missing. Details of the four erroneously released prisoners are emerging as ministers face growing pressure over a number of high-profile mistaken releases.more

The number of homeless people in England is higher than official government data suggests, according to new research from the charity Crisis. They say that around 189,000 families and individuals who faced the worst forms of homelessness such as rough sleeping, sofa surfing and living in tents were not included in official statistics.more

Britain is providing military support to Belgium after a series of suspected Russian drone incursions into its airspace, the new chief of the defence staff has said. Sir Richard Knighton told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that his Belgian counterpart had asked for assistance earlier this week and that equipment and personnel were now on the way.more

The BBC's boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The publicly funded BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser.more

The friendliest cities the world over have been named - and the UK is over-represented. It's only Spain, with four rankings in the top 20, that edges us out. We boast three spots, those being Brighton (6th), Belfast (10th) and Glasgow (14th). Topping the list is the coastal city of Porto, in Portugal.more

Air pollution in England and Wales has fallen, but the poorest neighbourhoods are still exposed to the most extreme levels of toxins, new analysis has found. Experts have called this a “grave environmental injustice” as the inequality around who is exposed to air pollution has dramatically grown in the last decade.more

One in five adults have said they had been targeted by scams and had money taken from them in the past year, a report has revealed. Twenty percent of people lost money to these scams in the year to March, according to the State of Scams in the UK report.more

Transport for London is set to launch five new Superloop bus route in 2026 and 2027. In September Londoners saw the latest addition to the bus network as the BL1 - or Bakerloop - began journeys from Waterloo to Lewisham.more

The majority of Britons do not feel proud of their country, a new survey has revealed. The wide-ranging polling on attitudes also suggested that people increasingly believe the UK is divided, that so-called culture wars exist, and that life was better in the past.more

Offshore Energies UK will from November 2026 require offshore staff to weigh a maximum of 124kg.more