Britain

NatWest pleaded guilty on Thursday to failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds ($544 million) and faces a heavy fine after becoming the first bank in Britain to admit ...

The European Commission will finalise measures next week it believes can lead to a resolution of post-Brexit trading issues in Northern Ireland by the end of the year or early ...

Britain has enough gas supply capacity to meet demand this winter, grid operator National Grid said in its winter gas outlook on Thursday, while the electricity system operator warned of ...

Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which ...

Britain is aiming early next year to be ready to start charging for some previously free COVID-19 tests, two sources close to the health service said, a step one described ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to radically re-shape Britain on Wednesday, exhorting his Conservative Party faithful to help government press on with tackling regional inequality by ending “long term structural ...

Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum ordered the phones of his ex-wife and her lawyers to be hacked as part of a “sustained campaign of intimidation and threat” ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return his focus to tackling regional inequality on Wednesday, hoping a final speech at his Conservative Party’s conference will draw a line under ...

School absences in England related to COVID-19 jumped by two-thirds in the last two weeks of September, according to government data which could raise concerns about further disruption to education ...

British baker and fast food chain Greggs (GRG.L) said supplies of its famous sausage rolls will be maintained this year despite a crisis in the country’s pork industry ...

British firefighters on Tuesday said they were tackling a fire at London’s Westminster underground station, the metro stop nearest to the Prime Minister’s office on Downing Street and ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied on Tuesday that the world’s fifth largest economy was heading towards a 1970s-style inflationary spiral but demanded that business kick a decades-long addiction to ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday that tax cuts could only come once public finances had been put on a sustainable footing. Last month the government set out ...

Britain told the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, ...

A deal with the United States is not the “be all and end all” of trade agreements, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Sunday. A trade deal with the ...

By Elizabeth Piper and Kylie MacLellan British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting ...

The world’s attention will be focused on Scotland for next month’s climate summit, Queen Elizabeth told Scottish lawmakers on Saturday, adding that they would have an important role ...

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has won the auction for Morrisons with a 7 billion pound ($10 billion) bid, paving the way for the U.S. private equity firm to ...

Britain will deploy almost 200 military tanker personnel, 100 of which are drivers, from Monday to assist with fuel deliveries to gas stations and help address a shortage of heavy goods vehicle (...

J D Wetherspoon (JDW.L) fell deeper into the red for its fiscal 2021 and said it had like many other businesses found it hard to attract workers in some areas ...

Many British gas stations were still dry on Friday after a chaotic week that saw panic buying, fights at the pumps and drivers hoarding fuel in water bottles after an ...

Changes to Britain’s border rules this week which prevent European Union ID cards from being accepted as proof of identity could compound existing issues for freight entering the United ...

By Alistair Smout A police officer was jailed for life on Thursday for abducting marketing executive Sarah Everard on a London street as she walked home then raping and murdering ...

By James Davey and Guy Faulconbridge More than two thousand British gas stations were still dry on Thursday due a shortage of truck drivers which was starting to disrupt deliveries ...