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A former Grenadier Guardsman who arrived in Britain aged seven after his parents fled the Nazis has been told he is not British enough for a UK passport. In a row which echoes the scandal of the Windrush Generation furore, grandad Tadeusz Polanski was told by the Home Office that he was not a British citizen.more

The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square was set to be unveiled today two years after a campaign to get female representation outside the Palace of Westminster began. A bronze statue of Millicent Fawcett will join eleven all-male statues including Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.more

The number of zero hour contracts in the UK labour market rose by around 100,000 last year according to the Office for National Statistics. The agency reported that in its latest survey of firms there were 1.8 million contracts that did not guarantee a minimum numbers of hours in the year to November 2017. more

Social media firms are being threatened with new laws if they don't do more to protect children online.more

India's cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a series of cases.more

A British teenager hacked into a US security chief's home television and made the words "I own you" appear on screen, a court has heard. Kane Gamble, 18, rocked the US intelligence community when he blagged his way into top officials' accounts in a campaign of "cyber terrorism". more

Thousands of African and South American nationals enter Spain on the basis of forged visas. Most of them come from Morocco.more

Poland may find itself in the European Union on the side track as a result of the "illiberal reforms" introduced by the Law and Justice government, and also receive less funds from the next EU budget - warned the British weekly "The Economist".more

Ommegas Services Ltd was fined more than £35,000 by magistrates for dumping waste around the corner from its office in Kingsbury, Middlesex.more

Cabinet will consider a proposal to create a rental register to help protect tenants.more

A judgment in the European Arrest Warrant case sent to the EU's Court of Justice in Luxembourg by the High Court because of concerns about the quality of the Polish justice system is likely within three months.more

The British organization Unseen has published a report summarizing the first year of operation of the Modern Slavery Helpline, a hotline on which suspicions of human trafficking can be reported. Poles are the second most frequently reported nationality, after Romanians.more

Decisions of the Polish authorities regarding increased felling in the Bialowieza Forest violate EU law - ruled on Tuesday the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg, pointing out that they can not be justified by the unprecedented gradation of the bark beetle.more

Domestic abuse victims, children and the elderly are among those at risk of losing their right to remain in Britain despite meeting the required criteria to stay, experts said.more

A west London council has unanimously voted in favour of creating a buffer zone around an abortion clinic to shield women from anti-abortion protesters, in a move that could pave the way for councils across the country to take similar action.more

The number of Britons taking up EU citizenship of another member state more than doubled in the year of the Brexit referendum, official EU figures show.more

Pubs staying open on Good Friday in Ireland is believed to have generated more than €40m (£35m) in sales, according to one estimate. more

Artist Hugleikur Dagsson has learned he cannot sell T-shirts with the word "HÚH!" on them, as someone took out a trademark on the onomatopoeia in 2016more

Facebook will force advertisers to confirm that they have legally valid consents from users to profile ads via email - The Verge said.more

Vote on 25 May will offer citizens opportunity to overhaul one of world's strictest regimes.more

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The new provision on the banning of unjustified geoblocking in online sales is at the heart of the EU Commission's aspiration and effort to create a real within the European Union.more

Residents of EU countries outside the euroland pay very high fees today for transferring funds in euro to other EU countries. The EC wants to change it introducing provisions that will significantly reduce them.more

MPs and landlords are at loggerheads over the acceptable level of deposits demanded of tenants in England. Deposits should be capped at five weeks' worth of rent, according to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.more

When Katya Wetukowa arrived in Britain from Germany 15 years ago, she felt she belonged immediately. "The tolerance, the openness... It instantly felt like home," she says.more