Britain

By Sachin Ravikumar, Alun John and Ben Makori The ring of cameras trained on London’s roads to charge drivers of the most polluting vehicles 12.50 pounds ($16) a day is due ...

By Farouq Suleiman Last month was the hottest June on record in Britain, the country’s national weather service said on Monday, warning that human-induced climate change was making such ...

British banks faced fresh criticism on Monday for the savings rates they offer to cash-strapped customers, in the latest intervention by parliament’s influential Treasury Select Committee. The committee said ...

Britain will require supermarkets and retailers to give drivers access to live fuel prices at every petrol station on their phones or satnavs after the country’s antitrust regulator said ...

British international Environment Secretary Zac Goldsmith resigned on Friday, saying Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was “uninterested” in environmental issues, in a move highlighting the deep split in the ruling Conservative ...

Prince Harry is seeking damages of around 440,000 pounds ($560,000) from Britain’s Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), court documents released on Friday revealed as the trial of the royal’s phone-hacking lawsuit ...

Kevin Spacey is an aggressive “sexual bully” who assaults men and gets turned on when his unwanted advances provoke anger, a British prosecutor said on Friday at the start of ...

Britain’s economy made a lacklustre start to 2023 as inflation ate into households’ disposable income, official figures showed on Friday, and economists see a risk of recession ahead as higher ...

British international environment minister Zac Goldsmith resigned on Friday, saying Britain had lost its claim to a global leadership role on climate and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was “uninterested” in ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government would appeal to the UK’s top court after its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was deemed unlawful, a major ...

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey appeared in a London court on Wednesday at the start of his four-week trial on a dozen sex offence charges. Spacey, 63, denies allegations of historic offences ...

Rapper Stormzy has teamed up with Crystal Palace striker Wilfried Zaha to buy ninth-tier English soccer side Croydon Athletic, the club said on Tuesday. Zaha was born in the Ivory ...

One in seven people in the United Kingdom faced hunger last year because they did not have enough money, according to a report published on Wednesday by food bank charity ...

Online’s share of Britain’s grocery market slowed further in June as hot weather encouraged shoppers to visit stores for drinks and refreshments, industry data showed on Tuesday. Market ...

British supermarket executives rejected allegations they were profiteering through a cost of living crisis on Tuesday, telling lawmakers they were not passing on price pressures in full to prevent customers ...

Britain’s government said on Monday it will cost on average about 169,000 pounds ($215,035) to deport each asylum seeker to Rwanda in the first detailed assessment of a high-stakes promise to ...

Prince William launched a five-year project on Monday seeking to end homelessness in Britain, saying he was following in the footsteps of his late mother Princess Diana who had alerted ...

Elton John enthralled a massive Glastonbury crowd on Sunday night in possibly his last show in Britain, delighting loyal fans but disappointing others who had hoped for star guest appearances. ...

HSBC has decided to leave its long-standing headquarters in Canary Wharf in east London in favour of a move to a much smaller office in the centre of the city, ...

Soaring mortgage costs in Britain are fuelling fears among homeowners, investors, charities and policymakers about the growing strain placed on borrowers, but lenders have so far sounded broadly sanguine about ...

British retail sales unexpectedly rose in May, boosted by an extra bank holiday to mark the coronation of King Charles but also suggesting most consumers were coping with high inflation’...

Hikers have found human remains in Southern California’s Mount Baldy wilderness, the mountainous area where British-born film actor Julian Sands went missing in January, local authorities said late on ...

For Ros Deegan, the thrill of raising $100 million to expand a biotech firm among the dreaming spires of Oxford was soon tempered: unable to find a bigger laboratory, she routinely ...

Davion Healthcare, a renowned medical company specialising in the design, development, manufacture, and global distribution of medical products and services, has relocated its €64 million business from the United Kingdom to ...