Britain

Four foreign nationals were killed when a small plane crashed at London Southend Airport on Sunday shortly after takeoff, British police said on Monday. The U.S.-built Beechcraft B200 ...

The attractiveness of the United States as an investment destination has plunged in the eyes of British business executives who now see opportunities closer to home, a survey showed this ...

British house prices stagnated month-on-month during June, as economists polled by Reuters had expected, figures from Halifax showed this week. The mortgage lender revised up May’s reading to show ...

Britain’s economy contracted unexpectedly for a second month running in May, official data showed on Friday, compounding worries at home for finance minister Rachel Reeves as the nation navigates ...

A model of refugees in a boat, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, was set alight on Thursday night, weeks after migrants’ homes were attacked nearby. ...

The United Kingdom and France on Thursday night finalised a deal wherein the UK will begin to return irregular migrants who had crossed the English Channel back to France, despite ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on the need for new solutions to the problem of illegal migration on Wednesday, Starmer’s office said, laying ...

Britain plans to ban non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that are used by employers to silence those who are subject to harassment or discrimination, as part of a broader bill to protect ...

Thirteen people may have taken their own lives and others were bankrupted or became seriously ill as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal, a public inquiry found on ...

Norman Tebbit, an outspoken former British politician and loyal supporter of Margaret Thatcher who only just survived a deadly 1984 bomb attack on her government in Brighton, has died at the ...

British services sector activity expanded at the fastest rate in nearly a year in June, and the prices they charged rose at the slowest pace in almost four years, according ...

The downturn in Britain’s construction industry abated slightly in June as homebuilding returned to growth, but commercial building activity tumbled thanks to mounting worries about the economy, a survey ...

The number of mortgages approved by British lenders for house purchases unexpectedly jumped in May, according to Bank of England data that suggested the housing market recovered quickly from the ...

British police arrested over 20 people on suspicion of terrorism offences after they showed support for the newly banned Palestine Action group in London, officials said on Saturday, hours after the ...

British rock band Oasis reunited in Cardiff on Friday as the Gallagher brothers put more than 16 years of acrimony behind them to deliver a hit-packed set that took thousands of ...

British house prices fell by 0.8 per cent in June, a sharper fall than forecast and the biggest monthly decline in more than two years, as a discount on property transactions ...

Pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action’s co-founder on Friday lost a bid to pause the British government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws, though the group is ...

After a year in office, Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves faces a reckoning over unmet promises of economic stability, with a stop-start economy and restive bond markets pointing to ...

Oasis, the biggest British rock band of the 1990s, kick off their reunion tour in Cardiff on Friday, bringing the warring Gallagher brothers back together on stage for the first ...

Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast beach in northern France, stopping every few hundred metres to pick up migrants bound for Britain. Four French police ...

British businesses have trimmed their expectations for wage growth over the coming year, a Bank of England survey conducted in June showed on Thursday. Firms expected wage growth of 3.6 per ...

British food prices accelerated by the most since March 2024 in June, pushing up overall shop prices rose for the first time in nearly a year, according to a survey from ...

Bank of England policymaker Alan Taylor said on Wednesday that a soft landing for Britain’s economy is now at risk and that economic data had recently argued for five ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s U-turns to pass welfare reforms mean they will no longer save taxpayers any money and have shredded the margin Britain relies on to meet its ...