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Motorists will receive greater protection from “aggressive debt collection and unreasonable fees” through a 50% cut to the private parking fine cap, the Government has said. more

The German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) is calling on the government and state premiers to develop a nationwide opening plan for catering. Dehoga has also called for the lifting of the curfew, DPA reported yesterday.more

Yesterday a court in Carlisle in the north-west of England sentenced a nine-month suspension for a year and a half to a 56-year-old man who participated in the imprisonment and forced labor of an intellectually handicapped man for 40 years into slave labor.more

The British Competition Authority (CMA) has announced a fine of £ 1.5m on Meta, the owner of, among others Facebook. The case concerns violation of competition protection rules in connection with the takeover of Giphy by Meta. The Meta company said it would pay a fine.more

Checks on agri-food products entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK must continue until the case is fully resolved in March, a Belfast court ruled today.more

The British government wants it to be quicker and easier to change or remove from British law the remaining European Union rules that were mechanically transferred into the British legal order after Brexit.more

Masks on flights will be one of the last coronavirus restrictions to be dropped globally and could remain policy for years, experts have said.more

Starting today, the validity of UE Covid Certificates (UCC) will be reduced to 270 days, both those issued after vaccination in the basic schedule and after booster and additional doses. The new guidelines have been prepared based on the position of the Medical Council.more

The Cypriot Supreme Court yesterday acquitted a British woman sentenced in 2020 to four months in prison for sowing contempt. The court ruled that the woman, who accused 12 Israeli teenagers of gang rape in the summer of 2019, was not given a fair trial.more

The obligation to wear masks outdoors has been extended in Italy until February 10; discos will also continue to be closed until that day. The regulation was signed yesterday by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. In doing so, he extended the regulations that had been in place until the end of January.more

Four thousand additional justice of the peace in England and Wales, who deal with petty offenses and minor offenses, are looking to attract the UK Ministry of Justice as a result of an ongoing recruitment campaign.more

The new draft covid legislation completely ignores vaccinations and instead relies on testing and questionable compensation claims, which will do nothing to reduce infections in workplaces, employer organizations said yesterday. They called for the possibility of verifying employee vaccinations.more

The government needs to do "a lot more" to help people struggling with the cost of living, a minister has said, as some Tory MPs called for a rise in National Insurance to be delayed. more

Yesterday's lifting of almost all covid restrictions in England is a symbolically important moment, but in practice little has changed. If one were unaware of this fact, one might not even notice the difference.more

Some stores will suggest customers continue to don a mask, with one large chain saying “safety remains our highest priority”.more

Prince Andrew has denied being a close friend of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, in a legal response to the woman who is suing him in the US for sexual assault. Lawyers for the prince also say he wants to go before a jury to contest the claim brought by Virginia Giuffre.more

Travellers need to be aware of different restrictions in place for international travelmore

Fresh rules are set to be added to the Highway Code in the coming weeks. One of the major changes is the introduction of a road user hierarchy, which puts responsibility on drivers of large vehicles – such as trucks or vans – to reduce the danger posed to others.more

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced yesterday that as of today, some of the restrictions put in place last December 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic will be lifted. Catering and the cultural sector will be open, and sports competitions will be allowed to take place with the public in attendance.more

Holiday bookings have jumped with "notable increases" in trips planned for February half-term and Easter ahead of Covid travel tests being scrapped.more

After years of controversy over the dog meat trade in South Korea, a chance has arisen to enact the first ban on eating the animals. A Seoul councilman has filed a draft resolution calling on the mayor to issue a ban in the city, Yonhap news agency reported yesterday.more

Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, can appeal to Britain's Supreme Court against a decision to agree to his extradition to the US, a London court ruled today.more

The Constitutional Council approved on Friday a law introducing a vaccine passport to replace the sanitary passport. Starting today, the document will be valid in public places for anyone over the age of 16. The law makes an exception for medical facilities and political rallies, where a negative test is still sufficient.more

Mandatory Covid jabs for NHS staff could be pushed back by six months amid nationwide protests over the measure, it has been reported.more

Several thousand NHS public health workers demonstrated in London's Trafalgar Square yesterday against mandatory vaccination against Covid-19.more