EU finalising N.Ireland package but insist no protocol renegotiation
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’s National Grid says it can meet winter gas demand, but power prices set to surge
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 ...
British milk sours amid labour crisis
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 ...
UK readying payment systems to charge for rapid Covid testing
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 ...
Shrugging off crises, PM Johnson delights party, annoys business
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 ruler had ex-wife’s phone hacked – UK court
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” ...
Under fire, UK PM Johnson tries to return to election agenda
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 ...
COVID-related school absences increase by two-thirds in England
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 ...
Britain will not run out of sausage rolls, says Greggs
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 ...
Firefighters attend blaze at London’s Westminster underground station
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 ...
Johnson confident that Britain is not heading into 1970s-style inflation spiral
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 ...
UK finance minister: Fix public finances before cutting taxes
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 ...
UK tells EU again it may take unilateral steps to protect Northern Ireland trade
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, ...
US trade deal is not the ‘be all and end all’
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 ...
UK PM Johnson says immigration will not solve fuel, gas, food crises (Updated)
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 ...
Eyes of the world will be on Scotland for climate summit, queen says
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 ...
D&R wins $10bn auction for UK supermarket Morrisons
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 ...
British military to help with fuel deliveries from Monday
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 (...
Pub group Wetherspoon’s losses widen, staff hard to find
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 still dry, pig cull fears grow
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 ...
Imminent UK border changes could add to trucker problems, industry group says
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 ...
British policeman jailed for life for murder and rape of Sarah Everard
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 ...
Chaos in the UK: pumps dry, medicines disrupted and pig cull fears
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 ...
Britain beats second quarter economy estimates
Britain’s economy grew by more than previously thought in the April-June period before what looks like a sharp slowdown more recently as post-lockdown bottlenecks, including a shortage of truck ...