Top pub and restaurant bosses have warned the chancellor that tax rises in last month's Budget will "unquestionably" cause closures and job losses. In a letter, more than 200 signatories have said the hospitality industry is disproportionately impacted by an "unsustainable" hike in the amount employers pay in National Insurance contributions (NICs).more

Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces.more

A family has paid tribute to their son who has been killed in Ukraine, saying they "begged him not to go" but he wanted to help. Callum Tindal-Draper's family said they were informed by the 4th International Legion that the 22-year-old from Cornwall had been killed in action while the foreign volunteer platoon defended an observation point on 5 November.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with the country's President Emmanuel Macron in France today. They will discuss plans to strengthen Ukraine ahead of US President Donald Trump taking office, British media reported.more

People have been urged to isolate at home for five days if they contract a contagious illness as a new variant is sweeping across the country - driving cases up 16% in two weeks. Rates of the winter vomiting bug norovirus have surged and the UK Health Security Agency says a Japanese variant known as Kawasaki is responsible for 70% of cases.more

Despite being relatively unknown, the quiet 'village' in North London is very well linked by the Underground...more

Yesterday, the annual general meeting of members of this Polish institution was held at the Polish Social and Cultural Centre in London. During the many hours of the meeting, a new president was elected, a representative of the "new Polonia" - Marcin Kalinowski, who for two years held the position of director of building management at POSK.more

NatWest's mobile banking app has crashed, leaving customers locked out of their accounts during the weekend. More than 1,000 customers have reported problems on outage tracker Down Detector as they scramble to access their money. more

The Princess of Wales has taken a significant step in her gradual return to public royal duties by attending the Festival of Remembrance. Joined by the Prince of Wales and the King, her presence at the Royal British Legion event comes after William spoke candidly of how 2024 has been “brutal” and “probably been the hardest year in my life”, with his wife and his father both diagnosed with cancer.more

Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland. The bottle was found inside the Corsewall Lighthouse at the most northerly point of the Rhins of Galloway.more

A "very rare" slice of wedding cake from the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has sold at auction for £2,200. The fruit cake was found under a bed in a suitcase, 77 years after the original 9ft (2.7m) cake was dished out to 2,000 guests.more

A new weather map shows a blob of snow getting closer and closer to London. The forecast from WX Charts shows snow on parts of South and West London, while the bulk of it is on Berkshire and Hampshire. Meanwhile, more snow can be spotted on the weather map towards parts of the North, mostly Yorkshire. The forecast is for Tuesday, November 19, meaning it is still quite uncertain. more

A court found that conspiracy theorist Richard Hall had harassed a father and daughter seriously injured in the Manchester terrorist attack and sentenced him to pay £45,000. Hall claimed that there was no bombing, the authorities had carried out a hoax and the harassment of the victims was a journalistic investigation.more

The foreign secretary has dismissed his previous criticism of Donald Trump as "old news" and insisted he would be able to find "common ground" with the president-elect. When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath".more

The average UK house price reached a record high last month, according to Halifax. The UK's largest mortgage lender said the average price hit £293,999 in October, surpassing a peak of £293,507 that was reached in June 2022.more

After Donald Trump's election as president, Great Britain must find a new link to the White House who will get in the good graces of the new leader of the free world, Politico wrote yesterday. The portal noted that despite the bad relations with Trump, Keir Starmer's government must find some solution.more

Shoppers could face higher prices as a growing number of big British firms warn about the cost of the National Insurance (NI) tax rises on employers announced in last week's Budget.more

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne, Argentinian authorities have said. The singer died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.more

Time Out is in talks about opening a huge new food market on Piccadilly Circus 18 months after it scrapped plans to launch in the capital.more

Criticism of Donald Trump expressed in the past by Labour politicians will not damage current British-American relations, said Pat McFadden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister responsible for coordinating the work of the British government, in an interview with Sky News.more

The deputy prime minister has suggested she wants to stop new council homes in England from being sold under the Right to Buy scheme. Angela Rayner told the BBC the government would put restrictions on new social homes in England “so that we aren’t losing that stock”.more

Tesco has introduced a new rule for its employees in a bid to tackle an issue that has been frustrating customers. The supermarket giant, competing with the likes of Lidl, Aldi, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Asda, and others, has banned staff from wearing headphones while on the shop floor following customer complaints about the practice.more

More than 50 new sanctions against Russia have been announced by the Foreign Office on Thursday, in the UK's largest package since 2023. The Foreign Office said these sanctions will directly target the supply of goods to Russia’s military and constrain resources that enable Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.more

Cheap clothes have outperformed more expensive garments in durability testing conducted for the discount fashion industry. The University of Leeds has worked with retailer Primark to test items such as jeans and T-shirts to set "standards" on how long clothing should last.more

The body of pop star Liam Payne was released to his family on Wednesday to be flown back to the UK, the public prosecutor in charge of his case has confirmed to the BBC. The singer died three weeks ago after falling from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.more