Britain

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 ...

Prince Harry claimed a “monumental” victory over Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group on Wednesday after the publisher settled his lawsuit, admitting unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the ...

The Bank of England (BoE) is open to discussions with Britain’s government about new ways to help boost economic growth by paring back regulatory requirements for the financial services ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Tuesday to “leave no stone unturned” to uncover failings in preventing the killings of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed event, saying an ...

By Mike Peacock Bond vigilantism has returned to Britain, raising the prospect that the government will be forced to consider politically toxic tax rises or public spending cuts to placate ...

Average asking prices for newly listed homes in Britain had their biggest start-of-the-year increase since 2020 but uncertainty about the pace of interest rate cuts is hanging over the market, property ...

A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event last July, one of Britain’s most shocking crimes this century that ...

The pound hit a fresh five-month low versus the euro on Monday, even as it rose against a weakening dollar, as recent economic data and comments from a Bank of ...

British house prices rose at their fastest annual pace in almost two years in November, adding to signs of resilience in the property market despite high borrowing costs, according to ...

High government spending and a growing need among big economies – from the United States to Britain and France – to tap bond markets to fund their outlays have shot up the ...