Britain

Britain’s payments regulator will be abolished and its remit absorbed by another financial regulator, the government said this week, as it aims to cut red tape in favour of ...

The Bank of England (BoE) said on Wednesday it appointed Sarah John, the central bank’s current Chief Cashier, as its new Chief Operating Officer. John will be replaced by ...

Fears of an environmental disaster eased on Wednesday, two days after a container ship ploughed into a stationary U.S. fuel tanker off northeast England, as the vessel’s owner ...

The Bank of England said it allotted 2.127 billion pounds ($2.75 billion) of six-month funds to banks at an indexed long-term repo operation on Tuesday, the most since April 2020 during the early ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday said he does not see the United Kingdom to be a neutral guarantor power of Cyprus. “I wanted the motherlands present at the ...

Fires continued to burn on Tuesday after two ships collided off the coast of northeast England a day earlier, adding to concerns the jet fuel carried by one and toxic ...

Britain’s jobs market cooled in February as the pace of hiring slowed and starting salaries rose by the least in four years, according to a survey on Monday that ...

A chemical tanker and container ship collided off the northeastern coast of England on Monday causing a huge fire on at least one of the vessels and leading to numerous ...

Britain’s Treasury Committee has announced that nine top UK banks and building societies suffered at least 803 hours of unplanned tech and systems outages in the last two years, blocking ...

British services firms in February cut staff at the fastest pace since 2020 ahead of tax and minimum-wage hikes that come into effect next month, an industry survey showed this week. ...

A man waving a Palestinian flag climbed the Big Ben tower at London’s Palace of Westminster early on Saturday, with local media reporting he shouted “free Palestine”. A spokesman ...

Britain’s Heathrow Airport is weighing changes to its previous expansion blueprint in a bid to cut costs and has been evaluating options such as building a shorter third runway, ...

The Turkish Cypriot side will act “in a constructive manner” at the forthcoming enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be held in the Swiss city of Geneva, Turkish Cypriot ...

The British government is planning to make more than £6 billion in welfare savings, ITV News reported on Friday, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves seeks to balance the books. ...

The United Kingdom’s minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty had “very constructive meetings” on Friday in Nicosia, “particularly discussing issues relating to our bilateral relationship, the geopolitical circumstances ...

The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts say requires the government ...

A Russian court jailed a British man for 19 years on Wednesday after he was found guilty of fighting for Ukraine in the Kursk region of western Russia. The court said ...

Three British right-wing extremists planned to collect an arsenal of weapons, including a 3D-printed gun, and carry out an attack as part of a “race war”, prosecutors said at the ...

Women make up about 43 per cent of the boards of directors of Britain’s 350 biggest public companies, according to a government-backed report that also said more work was needed to ...

British home prices will rise faster than previously expected this year, but the increase will be outpaced by surging rental costs as demand outstrips supply, a Reuters poll found. The ...

 Donald Trump accepted an invitation from King Charles on Thursday to visit Britain, making the U.S. president the first elected political leader in modern times to be hosted for ...

By Marios Eliades Eighty years have already gone by since those who conceived the European idea, Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Altiero Spinelli, Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer and others, laid the ...

British retailers plan to cut investment by the most in more than five years against a generally weak backdrop for consumer spending and rising costs, the Confederation of British Industry ...

President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet at the White House on Thursday for their first in-person visit since the Republican leader upended U.S. policy ...