Fifteen people were arrested yesterday in London in connection with a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians and a counter demonstration, the London Metropolitan Police reported. However, police are not ruling out further arrests.more

Workers should be offered tax breaks on private health insurance to tackle the worklessness crisis facing Britain, business leaders have said. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is calling for an overhaul of the tax system to improve workplace health.more

The UK has sent a team of engineering troops to Poland to help with flood relief in the south of the country, the British government announced yesterday.more

Four in every 10 (40%) UK working households cannot afford an average-priced two- or three-bedroom home with an 80% loan-to-value (LTV) mortgage, according to research from Zoopla.more

Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has criticised “slightly daft” proposals from academics to serve beer in two-third pint measures as he called for no further regulations to be introduced in the under-pressure pub sector.more

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One million people in England now vape despite never having been regular smokers, a seven-fold increase in just three years, according to research that has prompted alarm among health experts.more

British Airways announced yesterday that it is extending the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv up to and including 26 October due to the situation in the Middle East. The British carrier halted flights to the city on 24 September, initially for a fortnight.more

The UK will hand over sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, which have been the subject of a dispute between the two countries for more than 50 years, to Mauritius, but the military base on the island of Diego Garcia will remain under British-American jurisdiction for at least 99 years.more

New Met Office data has shown September was the wettest month on record for some counties in the UK. Though no national rainfall records have been broken, according to the provisional figures, some parts of the country experienced a 300 per cent increase in the average rainfall.more

Bank payments can be delayed by an extra three days if lenders suspect consumers are being scammed, as part of a crackdown on booming levels of digital fraud in Britain.more

The fact that Poland is able to finance arms purchases on this scale is proof of your country's success,’ stated James Cartlidge, the Conservative Party's shadow defence minister counterpart. He stressed that the war in Ukraine proves that heavy equipment has not become a relic.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has returned more than £6,000 for gifts and services received since taking office, his office said yesterday. This follows a wave of criticism since Sky News calculated that he had accepted gifts totalling £107,000 over the past five years.more

Since 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian organisation Hamas launched an attack on Israel, a record 5,583 anti-Semitic incidents have been reported in the UK up to 30 September this year, the Jewish Community Secutiry Trust (CST) reported yesterday.more

The four candidates for the leadership of the British Conservative Party yesterday set out visions for its renewal after the party's worst defeat to date in the last election. All the speeches were well received, but are more likely to strengthen the favourites in the race - Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.more

British rock band Pink Floyd has decided to sell the rights to part of its output to Sony for $400 million, the Financial Times reported yesterday, citing people involved in the deal.more

Ministers have been urged not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare fraud by launching mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accounts. Disability rights, poverty, pensioner and privacy groups fear the government is poised to deliver a “snooper’s charter” by using automation and possibly artificial intelligence to crack down on benefit cheats and mistakes which cost £10bn a year.more

Shortages of doctors mean the average GP in England has to care for 17% more patients than nine years ago, a BBC analysis shows. It means for every permanent GP there are more than 2,300 patients - a jump of nearly 350 since 2015, helping explain why access to general practice has been worsening and patient satisfaction declining.more

British troops assisted Israel in repelling an Iranian missile attack last night, Defence Minister John Healey confirmed. He did not specify the extent of the support, but aircraft were involved, according to the BBC.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated today ahead of a meeting in Brussels with European Union leaders that he wants a more pragmatic and mature relationship, but that there is no question of a return to the EU single market or a customs union with the EU.more

The ITAKA Foundation - Searching for Missing People Centre, at the request of the family and in cooperation with the police, is conducting a search for a missing person: Michał Sałek.more

The four candidates to replace former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party will deliver keynote speeches today on the final day of its annual conference in Birmingham. For two of them, this is the last chance to remain competitive.more

Queen Elizabeth II, Sir David Attenborough and James Bond have been named the most popular British cultural figures in a survey. The late monarch was voted the greatest “cultural icon” in the UK from the last 90 years, with 41% selecting her in a survey conducted to mark the 90th anniversary of the British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations.more

Workers should receive all tips from customers under a new law which bans firms from withholding the payments - whether in cash or by card. More than three million service workers in England, Scotland, and Wales should benefit from the law which comes into force on Tuesday. more

Billpayers have been urged to give an accurate meter reading as gas and electricity price rises take effect. A household in England, Wales and Scotland using a typical amount of gas and electricity will now see their annual bill rise by about £149 to £1,717.more