Security staff at Heathrow Airport vote for 10-day strike
Security staff at London’s Heathrow Airport voted on Friday to strike for 10 days, trade union Unite said.
The walkout, involving over 1,400 staff, will start on March 31 and end on ...
UK businesses mull moving cash after SVB chaos
British banks are seeing a pick-up in enquiries to switch cash between institutions after the collapse of US tech lender Silicon Valley Bank, as contagion fears prompt some depositors to ...
England to end pre-departure COVID test rule for arrivals from China
The British government said it would end the requirement for people flying from mainland China to England to provide proof of a negative pre-departure COVID-19 test from April 5.
From Friday, ...
UK government agrees pay deal with healthcare unions – report
Healthcare workers in England and the British government have reached an agreement on pay, the i newspaper reported on Thursday, in what would be a breakthrough following months of strikes ...
UK bans TikTok on government phones over security concerns
Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move that follows other Western countries who have barred the Chinese-owned video app over security ...
UK’s Labour attacks planned pension changes as giveaway to the rich
Britain’s opposition Labour Party vowed on Thursday to reverse the government’s planned pension changes, saying they were a giveaway to the top 1% of pension savers at a time ...
UK budget: Economy to avoid recession this year, Hunt says
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced on Wednesday a plan that he hopes will speed up Britain’s stagnating economy, including childcare and pension reforms to get more people into work and ...
UK to announce 4 billion pound boost for childcare in England – Guardian
Britain’s finance minister Jeremy Hunt is set to provide a 4 billion pound ($4.87 billion) expansion to free childcare for one and two year-olds in England in his budget plan on ...
‘Downton Abbey’ castle halts weddings due to Brexit, says owner
It is a problem the butler of ‘Downton Abbey’ might have sympathised with.
Highclere Castle in southern England, where the early 20th century period drama about the lives of aristocrats ...
UK Home Secretary attacks ‘naive do-gooders’ amid criticism
Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman defended her policy to remove almost all migrants who arrive without permission, saying her political opponents were “naive do-gooders” and there had has been “...
Russia and China threaten to create global ‘danger and disorder’, Britain says
Britain cast China as representing an “epoch-defining challenge” to the world order in an update to its foreign policy framework and also said the United Kingdom’s security hinged on ...
Sunak rules out law change for return of Parthenon marbles
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out changing a law which prohibits the British Museum handing the Parthenon marbles permanently back to Greece.
Sunak said there are no plans to ...
BBC seeks to end crisis by reinstating Gary Lineker
Britain’s BBC reinstated its highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker on Monday after its suspension of the former England football captain for criticising state immigration policy brought a public backlash and ...
UK doctors begin strike likely to be ‘most disruptive’ for health service
Thousands of junior doctors in Britain walked out on Monday in a three-day strike that will disrupt patient care, as they protest over pay they say can work out at ...
‘A thin existence’: man stranded in Turkey after being refused entry to Britain
By Ali Kucukgocmen
Stranded in Turkey since being barred from boarding a flight to Britain more than two months ago, Siyabonga Twala spent his 34th birthday on Saturday away from ...
UK’s Hunt says his budget will get more people into work
By William Schomberg and Sarah Young
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he would use this week’s budget plan to remove barriers, including high childcare costs, that are stopping ...
UK races to minimise damage from Silicon Valley Bank collapse
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday he was working with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey to “avoid or minimise damage” resulting from ...
Lineker pulled from BBC presenting after migration row
Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off air by the BBC after his comments on Britain’s migration policy sparked a furious row between the government and ...
British unions lose legal challenge over $23 bln pension reform bill
Two British trade unions on Friday lost a legal challenge to changes to public sector pensions they argue allows the government to unlawfully pass the 19-billion-pound ($23 billion) cost of discriminatory ...
Offshore workers to strike at UK continental shelf, says Unite
British union Unite on Friday said several Sparrows offshore services workers have voted to strike at dozens of platforms on the UK continental shelf including those of BP BP.L ...
Guardiola warns players to be careful in public as police investigate Walker
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola warned his players to be more careful when out in public after defender Kyle Walker became the subject of a police investigation for allegedly exposing ...
France, Britain strike migration deal paving way for new entente
Britain will pay France around 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to try to stop migrants travelling in small boats across the Channel as the two allies on Friday took ...
Britain’s junior doctors prepare to strike over pay, burnout
Fed up with a government he says doesn’t care, Poh Wang plans to go on strike with tens of thousands of other British junior doctors next week, saying he ...
Britain’s early retired resist calls to work, despite higher living costs
In their fifties and deciding there was more to life than work, Liz and Ian Woodbridge quit stressful jobs during the pandemic – part of a cohort of British early retirees ...