Britain

It was not possible for the pilot to recover from the tail rotor failure on a helicopter that crashed in 2018, killing Leicester City soccer club’s then owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, ...

Business activity in Britain’s services sector fell last month for the first time since January as higher interest rates reduced consumer and corporate demand, a survey showed on Tuesday, ...

The Russian mercenary Wagner Group is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organization by the British government, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. A draft order due to laid ...

Britain’s civil aviation regulator said on Wednesday it would undertake an independent review of the circumstances surrounding an air traffic control failure last week that caused widespread disruption to ...

Britain’s financial watchdog said on Tuesday it has launched a formal review into how banks conduct mandatory extra checks on “politically exposed” customers and their families for money laundering ...

Britain’s education minister Gillian Keegan apologised for an expletive-ridden outburst on Monday after complaining she wasn’t being thanked enough for doing a “fucking good job” in dealing with ...

Britain’s opposition Labour leader, Keir Starmer, launched a reshuffle of his top team on Monday to fight a national election expected next year, appointing his deputy Angela Rayner as ...

The Kremlin said on Friday it took a negative view of British defence contractor BAE Systems’ BAES.L decision to establish itself in Ukraine, adding that any facilities producing weapons ...

More than 150 British schools have been told to close some buildings after they were deemed unsafe, drawing anger from parents and teachers on the eve of a new term and ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has stopped short of referring parts of the financial data market to the competition authority for now despite concerns over the power of large companies, it ...

Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) will rejoin Britain’s FTSE 100 (.FTSE) stock index after a four-year hiatus, it was confirmed on Wednesday, capping a return to fashion for the food ...

British companies are their most confident since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a survey that also showed they planned to keep on raising prices and staff pay, ...

Former energy minister Grant Shapps replaced Ben Wallace on Thursday as Britain’s defence minister, a promotion for a man relied upon by the government as a good media communicator ...

An inquiry into the murder of seven newborn babies by British nurse Lucy Letby will have legal powers to compel witnesses to give evidence, the government said on Wednesday. Letby ...

The air traffic control glitch which caused thousands of flight cancellations and delays into and out of Britain has been fixed and will not be repeated, the head of NATS, ...

Britain’s state-run national health service will be the first in the world to offer an injection that treats cancer to hundreds of patients in England which could cut treatment ...

By Sachin Ravikumar A London scheme to cut traffic emissions by imposing a daily charge on the most polluting vehicles expanded to the whole of the British capital on Tuesday, ...

British transport minister Mark Harper said it would take days to resolve the widespread disruption to flights into and out of the country after air traffic control systems were hit ...

British consumers’ mood perked up this month as lower inflation made individuals less downbeat about the outlook for their personal finances, although sentiment remained poor overall due to concern about ...

Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) was hit by a technical problem for several hours on Monday, causing widespread disruption to flights in UK airspace that it said would ...

The British government said that judges will be required to impose mandatory “whole life orders” on killers who commit the most horrific types of murder, meaning they will die in ...

Britain’s competition regulator plans to propose a deeper probe into the large amount of land controlled by top homebuilders and into high charges arising from difficulties in handing over ...

British retailer the John Lewis Partnership said on Friday it is recruiting for more than 10,000 jobs over the coming months – 1,700 permanent positions and over 8,400 seasonal roles. The employee-owned partnership trades ...

Hundreds of hopeful volunteers joined a two-day hunt for Scotland’s fabled Loch Ness monster on Saturday and Sunday, in what organisers described as the biggest search for the elusive “...