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Around 600 drivers seeking to overturn fines for speeding after a fake 50mph sign was placed on a dual carriageway in south east London will not have their penalties waived, the Metropolitan Police said.more

A beloved cafe on Chiswick High Road saw its licence revoked after immigration officers discovered one of the workers was there illegally.more

Anders Breivik, who is serving a 21-year prison sentence for killing 77 people in 2011, lost a lawsuit he brought against the Norwegian state for human rights violations on Thursday. The mass murderer had complained about poor prison conditions.more

The Residential Tenancies Board has said it will resume charging late fees to landlords who fail to register a tenancy on time — more than a year after suspending the penalties due to significant delays and backlogs. The regulator said the move comes after it had “worked continuously to address the issues and concerns raised by users of the platform”.more

A mother-of-three has warned “the right to fall in love with a foreigner is something that only rich people can have” as incoming Home Office visa changes threaten to split her family up. Families which face uncertainty over the “draconian” measures are presenting petitions, which have garnered more than 250,000 signatures, to Downing Street on Valentine’s Day.more

Campaigners say renters served notices of increases of 30% to 60% in advance of cap and other emergency protections ending.more

Scam involves more than 700 healthcare workers who used proxies to pass test in Nigeria enabling them to work in the UK.more

Violence and abuse against shop workers rose to 1,300 incidents a day last year, according to a leading trade body. Incidents against staff were up by 50% in the year to September 2023, up from 870 incidents a day the year before.more

A bill to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda is "fundamentally inconsistent" with human rights legislation and damages the UK's reputation, the British Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights warned in a report published yesterday.more

The number of no-fault evictions by bailiffs in England surged by almost 50% last year, compared with 2022. Under Section 21 notices, people who rent their homes can be removed without landlords having to provide a reason. more

Council and European Parliament negotiators reached an interim political agreement to phase out the use of dental amalgam and to ban the production, import and export of a number of products containing mercury, including certain lamps.more

Sadiq Khan and Transport for London misled Londoners with some claims about the benefits of the Ulez, the advertising watchdog ruled on Wednesday. It said the Greater London Authority or TfL breached its rules on three occasions, including with the suggestion that “one of the most polluted places in London is inside your car”.more

Duke of Sussex criticises Piers Morgan’s ‘continued attacks’ as publisher agrees to pay damages and costs.more

The minimum unit price (MUP) for alcohol in Scotland is to be raised from 50p to 65p, it has been announced. Deputy First Minister Shona Robison announced the plan on Thursday in a statement to Holyrood. This means shops in Scotland will not be able to sell a bottle of wine for less than £6.09.more

The Co-op is installing in its supermarkets more than 200 secure till kiosks, locked cabinets for bottles of spirits and AI technology to monitor self-checkouts after a 44% surge in retail crime last year to about 1,000 incidents a day.more

The Afghan asylum seeker had been operating in Great Britain as a Russian spy for years, working for the British Foreign Office and probably also for the British secret services, The Times revealed.more

The worst-case scenarios of experts who predicted a year ago that the situation would deteriorate and that divorces would rapidly increase have not come true. From 81 thousand divorce petitions filed last year, most divorce cases are pending in Warsaw, because in the capital the petitions are sent to two courts.more

The retirement age could rise to 71 by 2050 for middle-aged workers in the UK, according to experts. Research by the International Longevity Centre into the impact of growing life expectancy and falling birthrates on the state pension suggested the current UK retirement age would not be enough and that anyone born after April 1970 may have to work until they are 71 before claiming their pension.more

Serious road traffic offenses such as speeding or driving under the influence of alcohol should lead to driving bans across the EU, said a European Parliament resolution adopted yesterday.more

The Treasury’s independent forecaster is to review the axeing of tax-free shopping for tourists, raising the possibility that a decision that leisure companies and retailers have blasted for deterring visitors and losing the UK billions in sales could be reversed.more

End of two-year protection for air carriers in Poland. From Tuesday, the Border Guard is to enforce millions of fines for failure to provide passenger data. The previous government left the current government a ticking bomb - says today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Around half of British workers do not earn the salary required to bring partners from overseas to the UK under new Home Office family visa changes, research suggests.more

Essex Police said the force was "working with experts" to establish the breed of the dogs and urged the public not to speculate as the daughter of the victim said they were XL bullies . It comes just days after an XL bully ban came into force.more

Protesters climbing on war memorials could face up to three months in prison under plans being proposed by Home Secretary James Cleverly. Last year No 10 said it would look into giving police new powers after a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators scaled London's Royal Artillery Memorial.more

Brianna Ghey's killers have been given life sentences for her "brutal, planned and sadistic" murder. Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe murdered the 16-year-old in a park in Cheshire in February 2023.more