The Latest Breaking News from Britain

It’s not that Britons are becoming less intelligent, it’s that the quiz canon has expanded, say top quizzers

There are believed to be more than 4,000 surviving victims from the NHS treatment disaster

We would like to speak to people in Britain, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh who experienced partition or whose family may have been based in India before or during that time

A survey has revealed the best and worst holiday parks all across the UK

Weather forecasters faced unprecedented levels of abuse during Britain’s record-breaking heatwave, industry leaders have said.

Hinch was goalkeeping hero of the penalty shootout when Britain won the 2016 Rio Olympics. It was an open goal for the sport to significantly raise its profile but she believes it missed the target

It would have been a dereliction of duty to refuse to join them in their struggle for a fair wage, says Labour MP Sam Tarry

Britain's competition regulator will investigate whether fashion brands ASOS, Boohoo and George at Asda are misleading shoppers with their environmental claims as it scrutinizes retailers for evidence of "greenwashing". The investigation comes as regulators heighten scrutiny of companies which may be exaggerating their green credentials in an attempt to woo…

So-called "ultra-fast fashion" has won legions of young trend-setting fans who snap up relatively cheap clothes online amid surging inflation, but the booming genre masks darker environmental problems. Britain's Boohoo, China's SHEIN and Hong Kong's Emmiol operate the same internet-based business model -- produce items and collections at breakneck speed…

(This July 29 story corrects cause of death in paragraph 7)

Until a hero like Marcus Rashford forces people to confront the reality of hungry children, misinformation and complacency about the lives of the poorest reign, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee