The government is set to introduce a new law to make spiking a specific criminal offence. Spiking is already a crime, covered by other pieces of legislation including the 1861 Offences against the Person Act.more

Londoners who concrete over their gardens should be charged for doing so and given incentives to remove paving, a report to the mayor has recommended.more

The Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Poland, Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk, hope for close cooperation in areas such as energy and defense, and also agree that there should be no concession in the face of Russian aggression, the office of the head of the British government said last night.more

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged £84m for projects in Africa and the Middle East to stop illegal migration "at source". The government said the new funding for education, employment opportunities and humanitarian support would help address the factors driving people to leave their homes.more

Police officers were attacked, missiles thrown and vehicles torched and flipped when trouble broke out in a Leeds suburb. Residents were warned to stay indoors in Harehills on Thursday evening in what West Yorkshire Police described as a "serious disorder incident".more

The London Overground will partially close for a total of 16 days starting this weekend. The closure has been put in place for engineers to repair a 150-year-old bridge in Hackney between Downs Park Road and Bodney Road.more

London's new favourite hype restaurant is so popular, counter-terrorism police were in touch before it opened.more

London renters must work 197 days of the year on average to pay their landlords before they can start earning for themselves, according to a new report.more

Prime Minister Donald Tusk held bilateral talks with British Head of Government Keir Starmer at the European Political Community Summit on Thursday, and attended a meeting of leaders of the Coordination Group on Moldova. A reception with King Charles is also on the summit agenda.more

UK inflation held steady in June, remaining at the Bank of England's target rate of 2%, according to the latest official figures, external. Discounts on clothes in summer sales helped offset the soaring cost of hotel stays. Overall, inflation rose at 2% in the year to June, unchanged from May.more

Britain's new Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that his government's aim is national enclosure and to show that politics can be a force for good. However, he warned that the country's recovery from Conservative Party rule would be neither quick nor simple.more

The Prime Ministers of the UK and Ireland, Keir Starmer and Simon Harris, agreed on Tuesday to try and make a reset in relations between the two countries, which have been less than ideal in recent times.more

Foreign Affairs chief Radosław Sikorski has assured that he will support the UK's efforts to improve and regulate its relations with the EU, at least in the broader area of security. Today, Sikorski will meet with his British counterpart David Lammy.more

More than 133,000 men die early every year in the UK, equating to 15 every hour, according to a report calling for urgent action to improve men’s health. Two in five men are dying prematurely, before the age of 75 and often from entirely avoidable health conditions, research by the charity Movember found.more

Adolescents get about two-thirds of their calorie intake from highly processed foods, a new study has concluded. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and University of Bristol looked at data from food diaries filled in by almost 3,000 young people.more

The Natural History Museum’s transformed gardens will welcome visitors from 18 July. Fern, a brand-new bronze Diplodocus, takes pride of place in a Jurassic landscape. The gardens will also be one of the most intensively studied urban nature sites globally, as part of the Museum’s national biodiversity movement.more

Keir Starmer's government intends to adopt as many as 40 laws in the coming year, announced King Charles III of Great Britain today in his throne speech opening the new session of parliament. The focus of the government's legislative plans is to improve people's living standards by stimulating economic growth.more

Parts of the UK could be hit by a burst of 30C heat by the end of this week, following an unusually wet start to July. The warm blast is expected to arrive in the South East of England on Friday. Temperatures could set a new record for the hottest day of the year, after 30.5C was recorded in Wisley, Surrey on June 26. more

Virgin Media, Scottish Power, and British Gas have been named the worst performers in customer service within the broadband and energy sectors, according to consumer group Which?.more

The Labor government wants to improve Britain's relations with the EU and Thursday's European Political Community summit will be a good opportunity to do so, but apart from the security agreement, this means small practical improvements rather than a major policy change, say experts from UK in a Changing Europe.more

A troubled children’s jail has been branded the most violent prison in the country by a watchdog.more

The deputy prime minister has dismissed comments by Donald Trump's running mate for US vice president that UK under Labour might be the first "truly Islamist" country with nuclear weapons.more

A legal challenge is set to commence with the aim of overturning the approval granted for a road tunnel near Stonehenge. The £1.7bn, two-mile tunnel from Amesbury to Berwick Down in Wiltshire was authorised by the Department for Transport last yeamore

The prospective new owner of Royal Mail has said he will not walk away from the requirement to deliver letters throughout the UK six days a week, as long as he is running the service.more

New Labour UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has started to build a relationship with Donald Trump in case he wins the US presidential election and intends to deepen his alliance with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the issue of immigration, despite the fact that both are politically not close to him, according to media reports.more