EU gives Britain till end of April to ratify Brexit trade agreement
The European Union will ask Britain if it can take an extra two months to ratify the Brexit trade agreement by extending until April 30 provisional application of the deal.
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UK says it’s not yet at ‘gin and tonic’ stage with EU after Brexit
By Guy Faulconbridge
Britain said on Tuesday its relations with the European Union after Brexit had been problematic due to differences over everything from vaccines and Northern Ireland as well ...
UK’s Princess Eugenie has had baby son – Buckingham Palace
Britain’s Princess Eugenie, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, has given birth to her first child, a baby son, with husband Jack Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday.
Eugenie, the 10th ...
Britain tightens travel with hotel quarantine and prison threat
Britain said it would bring in tighter border controls next week against new variants of the coronavirus, requiring hotel quarantine for arrivals and threatening rule-breakers with up to 10 years in ...
What changes does Britain want to N. Ireland post-Brexit rules?
Britain is demanding the European Union agree to rework the post-Brexit trade rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, seeking more time, better solutions and, in some cases, a renegotiation of ...
TUI banking on vaccinated Brits for summer recovery
TUI Group, the world’s biggest holiday company, needs a summer recovery to relieve pressure on its strained finances and is banking on vaccinated Britons going abroad in the peak ...
Exports from UK to EU down 68% since Brexit trade deal, say hauliers
Exports from Britain to the European Union fell by 68% in January as trade was disrupted after the end of a transition period following Britain’s departure from the European Union, ...
UK says it wants all vaccine priority groups to have first shot by May
Britain wants to have offered all adults over the age of 50, most vulnerable people and health workers a vaccination against Covid-19 by May, the government said on Friday, setting a ...
Britain’s COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy to start Feb. 15
Britain will place travellers arriving from COVID-19 hot spots in quarantine in hotels from Feb. 15, the government said, after criticism that it was not moving fast enough to bring in ...
No sweeping change to N.Ireland protocol, Ireland says
The European Union is considering demands by Britain and some Northern Irish politicians to extend grace periods for goods checks, but post-Brexit trade arrangements for the province will not change ...
Brexit leaves UK, EU lawyers with ‘too many unanswered questions’
Lawyers on both sides of the Channel have been left in limbo by the Brexit accord. Although Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that “solicitors and barristers got a good ...
EU rebuffs UK demand to soften N. Ireland Brexit trade terms (Update 3)
By Conor Humphries and William James
The European Union on Wednesday rebuffed a British demand to extend a grace period for checks on goods going from Britain to Northern Ireland, ...
UK’s Captain Tom Moore has died – family says
Captain Tom Moore, the British World War Two veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the frontline of the battle against COVID-19, has died aged 100, his ...
Coronavirus mutation ‘of most concern’ has occurred spontaneously in UK variant
The coronavirus mutation “of most concern” has occurred spontaneously in the UK variant, a professor of outbreak medicine who is part of a panel that advises the British government said ...
UK begins door-to-door testing of 80,000 people as new COVID variants spread
Britain begins a door-to-door COVID-19 testing of 80,000 people on Tuesday in a bid to stem the spread of a new highly infectious so called South African variant of the novel ...
UK makes formal request to join trans-Pacific trade deal
Britain made a formal request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, seeking membership of the 11-country deal to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade.
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‘Pray for Tom’: UK’s record fundraiser Captain Moore in hospital with COVID
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was among a host of well-wishers from across Britain and beyond willing record-breaking fundraiser Captain Tom Moore to pull through after the centenarian was admitted to ...
Queen Elizabeth to host Biden before G7 summit in June
Queen Elizabeth will host new U.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders at Buckingham Palace before a summit of the G7 big economies in June, the Sunday Times ...
UK confident of vaccinations after securing EU guarantees
Britain’s government is confident its COVID-19 vaccination programme is secure after receiving guarantees from the European Union, trade minister Liz Truss said on Sunday, trying to smooth over a ...
Covid face mask painted on giant English chalk figure
British police are searching for the vandal or vandals who painted a COVID-19 face mask on the figure of a mysterious giant carved into a hillside in southern England.
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After outcry, EU reverses plan to restrict vaccine exports through Irish border
The European Union on Friday abruptly reversed a plan to use emergency Brexit measures to restrict exports of COVID-19 vaccines from crossing the Irish border into the United Kingdom after ...
Britain says China has damaged trust in global trade system
Britain on Friday said China had contributed to an erosion of trust in the global trade system, offering to work with the European Union, Japan the United States and others ...
UK bans direct flights from UAE, shutting world’s busiest international route
Britain is banning direct passenger flights to and from the United Arab Emirates from Friday, shutting down the world’s busiest international airline route from Dubai to London.
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EU warns it could block vaccine exports
Europe’s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies intensified on Thursday when the European Union warned drug companies such as AstraZeneca that it would use all legal means or even ...