British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital, the first book set in space to win the prize. Orbital contemplates the world from a different viewpoint as it follows a team of astronauts in the International Space Station.more

A central London pub has increased the price of drinks in the late evening — saying that customers need to pay for their security. O’Neill’s on Wardour Street, Soho, has added a £2 surcharge on all drinks served after 10pm, meaning that a pint costing £7.40 goes up to £9.40 later in the evening.more

The UK’s jobs market has shown further signs of cooling after a rise in unemployment in September while pay growth slowed, as business leaders warned the budget could hit hiring demand and lead to higher prices.more

The head of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned on Tuesday. The reason is the results of an investigation indicating that Archbishop Welby failed to inform the police about sexual abuse committed years ago by a staff member at a Christian summer camp.more

The NHS will start offering an "improved" stop smoking pill to tens of thousands of people in England who want to quit cigarettes. Varenicline, a daily tablet given over a few months, is as effective as vapes and more effective than nicotine replacement gum or patches, NHS England says. more

A Ryanair plane en route to Manchester was forced to make aN emergency landing at London Stansted after a man died onboard. The flight from Tirana, Albania, suddenly diverted shortly before 8pm on Sunday, having flown over countries including Switzerland and France.more

Former British Armed Forces soldier Daniel Khalife, who has been charged with terrorism and spying for Iran, pleaded guilty yesterday to escaping from prison where he was awaiting trial. This occurred in September 2023 and Khalife was caught after a three-day manhunt.more

New data from the Motor Insurers' Bureau shows the worst offending areas for uninsured driving in the UK.more

Whole cucumbers, white wine and kimchi. Here’s what your London borough orders the most via Deliveroo groceries.more

A Home Office artificial intelligence tool which proposes enforcement action against adult and child migrants could make it too easy for officials to rubberstamp automated life-changing decisions, campaigners have said.more

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