Britain

The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates on Thursday for only the third time since just after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as it juggles ...

British services firms lost momentum last month as a looming rise in employer taxes led to the fastest job cuts in four years but price pressures remained strong, according to ...

The original line-up of heavy metal legends Black Sabbath will play together for the first time in 20 years at a one-off concert in Birmingham, England, this summer, organisers said on ...

British consumers received some relief to pressure on their budgets in January as a step-up in supermarket promotions meant grocery inflation edged lower following four straight months of rises, according ...

British businesses turned more pessimistic in January, extending a run of falling corporate confidence to five months, but there were some more hopeful views about trading prospects for the coming ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has laid out plans to make it easier for retail investors and wealth managers to buy corporate bonds and for companies to raise capital from these ...

A British soldier was sentenced to more than 14 years in jail for collecting sensitive information for Iran and gathering the names of special forces personnel before briefly escaping from prison ...

Morgan Stanley has forecast UK’s economic growth would be less than 1 per cent this year, echoing the estimate of its Wall Street peers Goldman Sachs and J.P.Morgan, ...

Theft and violence against retail workers in Britain soared to record levels last year and are “out of control”, driven partly by criminal gangs, according to a report published on ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the government’s backing to a long-delayed new runway at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday as the centrepiece of her plan to speed up ...

Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War Two bombing by Germany are set to be transformed into the British capital’s biggest new tourist attraction for years, according to ...

John Perumbalath, the bishop of Liverpool, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman and harassing another, Channel 4 reported on Tuesday, in the latest scandal to hit the Church of ...

Advertised rents in Britain outside London have fallen on a quarterly basis for the first time since 2019 due mostly to a drop in demand from tenants, according to data published ...

The deaths of five people in a helicopter crash at the King Power Stadium in October 2018, including Leicester City soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, were accidental, an inquest jury concluded ...

The UK population is projected to rise to 72.5 million by mid-2032 from 67.6 million in mid-2022, driven almost entirely by net migration into the country, the Office for National Statistics said ...

Britain and the European Union go to court for the first time on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights, a case that could complicate Britain’s planned “...

A clear majority of British businesses look set to cut the size of pay awards for staff in response to coming tax hikes and they remain pessimistic about the outlook ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday said his ‘government’ is to begin “serious work” to allow Turkish Cypriots abroad to vote in the north’s elections. Speaking during ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to meet soon on a call on Sunday when they also spoke about the royal family and of ...

At least 49 billion pounds ($60 billion) of maintenance work at schools, hospitals and prisons in Britain has yet to be carried out, according to a report from a spending watchdog, highlighting ...

A tree was planted in London on Saturday as a memorial to the 24 Cypriot children and 11 Cypriot adults who died when the hotel in which they were staying in Turkey ...

British pay growth in the private sector picked up in the three months to November but a plunge in payrolls added to signs of a softer labour market, according to ...

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure ...

Britain ran a bigger-than-expected budget deficit in December, swelled by debt interest costs and a one-off purchase of military homes, according to official data that underlined the fiscal pressure faced ...