Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Britain

Great Britain’s Davis Cup qualifier in Colombia ‘very complicated’ says captain

Matches will be played at an altitude of 2,600 metres and with pressureless balls.

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on a Northern Ireland deal: time to beat the clock

Editorial: Rishi Sunak is right to want the protocol dispute sorted. That means standing up against his party’s ultra-sovereigntist wing

The Guardian - UK

Why is Shell’s UK windfall tax payment so low?

The oil major has posted the biggest profits in its history, nearly $40bn for 2022, but will only pay $134m in taxes

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Energy bailiffs for the poorest, huge profits for the richest: this is Britain in 2023

The British Gas scandal about vulnerable people being forced on to prepayment meters is just the latest cruelty in this crisis, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

No tension between UK and Australia on colonial past, says Foreign Secretary

James Cleverly was speaking after Australia’s foreign minister had urged Britain to confront its ‘uncomfortable’ history in the Indo-Pacific.

The Independent UK

Jockey Club throws off dress code to attract more racegoers to its big tracks

The Jockey Club, which owns 15 of the biggest courses in Britain, has scrapped its ‘outdated’ formal dress code

The Guardian - UK

Britain has missed out on £400bn of growth since 2010, says TUC

Tories blamed for creating economic ‘doom loop’ that fails to recognise negative impact of spending cuts

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

BT pledges to build high speed internet “like fury” with strikes now in the past

BT today claimed it is winning the broadband race, building “like fury” to give Britain an ultra high-speed internet network that should rival any in the world. It is doing 62k premises a week and is 38% into its 25 million target for the fastest internet connections.

Evening Standard

Satanism on rise with sleepy English town named UK capital for devil-worshippers

Britain's young people are choosing Satanism over traditional religions

Wales Online

UK defence minister: Sending jets to Ukraine not right approach 'for now'

Britain has not made a "solid decision" not to send its fighter jets to Ukraine but does not think it is the right approach at the moment, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Study finds first solid scientific evidence Vikings brought animals to Britain

The findings indicate Vikings were not only stealing animals when they arrived in Britain, but brought some with them.

The Independent UK

Study: Some Vikings Brought Horses and Dogs To Britain

A recent archaeological study found the first evidence that the Viking Great Army brought horses, hunting dogs, and livestock along on its invasion of Brtain.

Inverse

Man who survived UK's worst storm that killed 307 at just 10 'can still hear the wind'

Former Canvey Island Councillor Ray Howard, whose family lived a mile from the seafront, was just 10 when a violent storm tore through Britain in 1953 - but still remembers it vividly

Daily Mirror

How to dislodge the posh clique that rules Britain

Letters: Simon Bull asks for discrimination against the state-educated to be outlawed, and other readers write on Oxbridge and Eton domination

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Two more members of the old boys’ club who brought Britain low

Letters: Gary Woodhouse laments the impact of austerity imposed by David Cameron and George Osborne, and Roger McGarva exalts Nesrine Malik’s skewering of Tory sleaze

Foreign Policy

Blankets, Food Banks, and Shuttered Pubs: Brexit Has Delivered a Broken Britain

Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.

The Guardian - UK

Truss and Brexit have sunk Britain’s economy – and the right is in deep denial about both

The global economy is hardly booming, but the UK is at the bottom of the pile of developed nations for two clear reasons, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Independent UK

Door remains open for Britain to rejoin the EU, says Barnier

The chief Brexit negotiator for Brussels said he would like the two sides to work together to build a new partnership.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Radio France Internationale

Walkout Wednesday: Britain hit by biggest strike in decades

Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers walked off the job on Wednesday as the UK was hit by a coordinated strikes on a level not seen since the 1980s.

The Independent UK

Traffic plummets due to lack of school runs during strikes

Location technology company TomTom said road congestion in cities across Britain was far below normal levels at 8am.

The Guardian - UK

UK police removing ‘large amount’ of online gun-making guides

Exclusive: Fears growing that far-right extremists are producing 3D-printed firearms to use on streets of Britain

The Guardian - UK

No 10 refuses to deny Sunak was given informal warning about Raab’s behaviour before he made him deputy PM – as it happened

Dominic Raab under increasing pressure as civil servants’ union calls for him to be suspended until bullying inquiry concludes

The Independent UK

Day of disruption in UK as up to half a million join walkout

Up to half a million workers are expected to go on strike across the U.K. in what’s shaping up to be the biggest day of industrial action Britain has seen in more than a decade

Evening Standard

Watch: Paddington station looks deserted after train drivers strike

Britain is facing strike chaos on Wednesday as up to half-a-million civil servants, teachers and train drivers walk out simultaneously in the most significant day of industrial action in a decade.

The Guardian - UK

Sorry, Jeremy Hunt, we older people want to work. But bosses just don’t want us to

The chancellor says that Britain needs us oldies back in employment, but the discrimination we face is an outrage, says Dorothy Byrne

1 … 428 429 430 431

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Trades Union Congress

26 stories

University of York

26 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.