The Latest Breaking News from Britain

Britain’s hopes of success at the French Open are over for another year

Spending should be focused on the immediate threats we face: underfunded public services and an escalating climate crisis, says Karen Bell, a professor of social and environmental justice

The Independent looks at the outcome of the strategic defence review

Review says UK must be ready to ‘fight and win’ a full-scale war. Here is a summary of its recommendations

PLANS to boost military spending to put Britain on a war-footing have been unveiled and backed in their entirety by the UK Government.

The long-awaited strategic defence review warned the UK may need to move even more quickly than planned to tackle the ‘pressing and immediate’ threat of Russia

Hikers, campers, and runners could be asked to hand over anywhere from 10 pence to £1 per visit to help look after the Peak District National Park

Modern Britain is plagued by a sense of disempowerment and political exclusion – a feeling that is, somewhat ironically, shared between groups of people who otherwise feel divided from one another.

England is facing a water crisis. The UK government has just announced plans to fast-track two massive reservoir projects in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, warning that without them, we could run out of drinking water by the mid-2030s. But as a hydrologist who studies Britain’s often erratic weather patterns, I believe…

Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain

Labour have insisted Britain will retain control over its nuclear weapons after concerns were raised about a new deal being negotiated with America