The Latest Breaking News from Britain

Letters: Asher Minns writes that farmers have been incentivised to grow a crop that causes obesity, while Prof Richard Evershed says they should turn their skills to growing genuinely nutritious food

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark warning from a new academic study my colleagues and I just published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Dubbed Britain’s conspiracy theorist cleric, Calvin Robinson has had his church license revoked after mimicking Musk’s salute at Washington, DC’s National Pro-Life Summit

After six months of talking down the economy and warning of tough times ahead, the UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has changed her tune. She is now much more optimistic about Britain’s economic prospects and has announced a raft of measures including major pension reforms designed to unlock cash to boost…