Nearly nine years on from the narrow Brexit referendum result, which led to the UK leaving the European Union, most Britons want to see the UK return to the EU.
A YouGov poll highlights the extent to which the UK public is “Bregretful” about the outcome of the vote, which ended David Cameron’s term as prime minister. more
Cosmetic procedures such as fillers, Botox and Brazilian butt lifts are taking place in public toilets, hotel rooms and other "shocking locations" in Britain, officials have warned.more
Plans to scrap the 2031 census in England and Wales are expected to be overturned after a backlash from senior statisticians over proposals to replace it with a patchwork of alternative data sources.more
The UK House of Commons yesterday passed the Assisted Dying Bill, which will allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives, AP reported. 314 MPs voted in favour of the bill, with 291 voting against. The bill will now go to the House of Lords.more
Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses.
Arif Ahmed, from the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, told the BBC that exposure to views which students might find offensive was "part of the process of education".more
Young people under the age of 18 are more aware of nicotine pouches, new data suggests. According to a survey commissioned by charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), the percentage of 11-17 year olds who said they knew of the pouches grew from 38% in 2024 to 43% this year.more
A culture of “blindness, ignorance and prejudice” led to repeated failures over decades to properly investigate cases in which children were abused by grooming gangs, a report has said.more
Once again, Kassel in Hesse has been ranked as the happiest city in Germany, according to the “Atlas of Happiness” (Gluecksatlas) ranking published last week. Cities with smaller populations lead the ranking, while metropolises lag behind, the compilation shows.more
52.7 per cent of respondents will not take part in the voluntary military training announced by the Ministry of Defence, while 41.2 per cent of respondents are willing to do so, reported yesterday's “Rzeczpospolita”, which cited an IBRiS poll on the matter.Poles are not thinking about military training. more
Work has begun on the exhumation of the remains of 796 children at the former Mother and Child Home in Tuam, western Ireland, the Irish Times reported yesterday. The site was used by the Sisters of Our Lady Help of Christians (Bon Secours) to run a facility for single mothers between 1925 and 1961.more
Makers of air fryers, smart speakers, fertility trackers and smart TVs have been told to respect people’s rights to privacy by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).more
New research suggests online shopping, gaming, and TV habits vary based on where people live.
The data from Openreach revealed that the city where the average family spends the most time online is Sheffield, with a third reporting they spend more than five hours online a day.more
The government is aiming for a significant expansion of clinical trials in the UK, and plans to use the NHS app to encourage millions of people in England to take part in the search for new treatments.more
A safe space for young women and girls has launched in East London, acting as a "one-stop shop" for support.
The Bloom Hub in Stratford, Newham is similar to a community centre, but is exclusively for females aged 13 to 25.more
This trend is particularly visible in China and India, but there are also signs that in the West, the birth of a son is no longer considered a more desirable event than the birth of a daughter, the Times reported.more
A "Trojan horse" therapy that sneaks toxic drugs inside cancer cells is being made available on the NHS in England in a world first.
It can halt the blood cancer myeloma for nearly three times longer than current therapies.
The drug is an advanced form of chemotherapy that hits cancer with a bigger dose, while reducing side-effects.more
Liczba ludności Belgii wzrosła w 2024 r. do 11,8 mln – podał belgijski urząd statystyczny Statbel. Oznacza to roczny przyrost o niemal 62 tys. osób, czyli 0,52 proc., jednak wzrost ten w całości wynika z dodatniego salda migracji.more
During anti-immigrant riots, protesters set fire to a building in Larne, Northern Ireland, suspecting that evacuated migrants from another town had been brought there, the website of "The Telegraph" reported today. The migrants had already been moved to a safe location.more
Rough sleeping will be decriminalised next year under government plans to scrap a 200-year-old law. Ministers are planning to scrap the Vagrancy Act, which outlaws rough sleeping in England and Wales. The law was introduced in 1824 to deal with rising homelessness, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has called it "cruel and outdated".more
Britons are hoarding physical cash amid extreme economic uncertainty and to provide a safety net for possible banking system outages such as the recent one in Spain, according to the Bank of England’s chief cashier.more
Hundreds of millions of people around the world cannot have as many children as they would like. Among the top reasons are the high financial outlay involved in raising a child and the lack of a suitable partner, according to a study by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the BBC reported yesterday.more
There is an increase in the number of adopted children coming, among others, from Vietnam and South Africa. This is the result of foreigners settling in Poland, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more
The deportation wars are beginning, wrote the US ‘Wall Street Journal’ on Sunday. The weekend protests in defence of immigrants in Los Angeles show what we can expect in the future, the newspaper stressed.more
With record crowds of foreign visitors in Spain, new protests against mass tourism, symbolised by water guns, are expected. The next ones are scheduled for 15 June, including in Barcelona, San Sebastian and the Balearic Islands.more
