All news on the topic: United Kingdom

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Amid a shortage, 400 kegs of Guinness are stolen from a delivery truck in a heist
Diageo, which owns Guinness, was forced to place ’allocation limits’ on the number of kegs UK pubs could receive in the run up to Christmas due to a surge in the stout’s popularity.
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Charles Bronson, the UK’s most notorious prisoner, could be released within months as he makes a fresh bid for freedom
Charles Bronson, who has changed his name to Charles Salvador, has been convicted multiple times since 1974 for crimes...
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£100m spent on ferry repairs in Scotland over the past decade in a ’ferry fiasco’
Government plans for publicly funded operator CalMac have been mired in controversy, with replacement vessels delayed and costs spiralling.
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Heavy snow causes travel chaos with airport closures as Britain experiences a -11C freeze
Manchester and Liverpool John Lennon Airport both closed their runways on Sunday morning due to heavy snow, with passengers facing travel delays and cancellations.
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NATO is dissatisfied with the state of the UK’s air defense
NATO members consider the state of the UK’s air defense to be inadequate, with virtually no means of protection against ballistic missiles.
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War crime suspects revealed as police consider genocide charges
Detectives are looking into to possibility of charging Rwandan’s living in the UK with historic offences 30 years on from the massacre of 800,000 in just 100 days.
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Illegal migrants purchase fake UK passports and driving licenses for £5,000 before traveling to Britain
Illegal migrants are buying fake UK passports and driving licences before they travel here.
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MI5 reveals that since 2020, 11 UK terror plots have involved 3D-printed guns
At least 11 UK terror plot cases since 2020 have involved 3D-printed guns, MI5 has revealed.
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Company led by former UK ethics envoy earns £13m from non-profit visa services
Cloud Bai-Yun was asked to resign from Ecctis, which runs language and qualifications tests for UK visa applicants.
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Seven-month-old baby boy dies after car veers off road and crashes into tree
A seven-month old baby boy has been killed as a car plowed into a tree in Lincolnshire amid ‘icy conditions’.
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New bill proposes travel restrictions and social media bans for suspected people smugglers
Critics say border security bill for England and Wales likely to have minimal effect as record number of people cross Channel illegally.
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20 councillors in Nottinghamshire quit Labour over Starmer leadership
Party loses overall control of Broxtowe borough council over claims Labour has abandoned traditional values.
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Nationwide reports UK house prices surge 4.7%, approaching record highs
UK house prices increased for the fourth month in a row in December, sitting just below an all-time high according to Nationwide Building Society.
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Liverpool fan suffers severe head injury in attack by rival supporter
A Liverpool fan is ‘lucky to be alive’ after being attacked by a rival fan not long after the final whistle.
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Stormzy receives 9-month driving ban following illegal incident in luxury car
Stormzy has been banned from driving for nine months at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court after using a phone behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce.
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"Shadow fleet" of Russia: How businessman Roman Spiridonov helps bypass oil sanctions through Dubai
In December 2024, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on 20 vessels considered part of the "shadow fleet of the Russian Federation."
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Luxury London properties tied to Azerbaijan’s president’s family concealed through offshore trust
The family and associates of Azerbaijani strongman Ilham Aliyev acquired U.K. real estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years
Despite fall in trade, LSE study says overall impact was more limited than OBR forecasters first estimated
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UK student loan debts soar as one graduate pays £64k in interest
The highest outstanding student debt in the UK has topped more than £250,000, figures obtained by Money show.
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Construction workers are four times more likely to die by suicide, with 7,000 lives lost, report reveals
Social media company On The Tools found that 73% of the UK’s 2.1 million construction workers have been affected by mental illness. In the last decade 7,000 have taken their own lives.
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
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UK train fares are the highest in Europe, study reveals
Train operators in the UK are the most expensive in Europe, according to new analysis.
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Evangelical pastors implicated in charity fraud scheme
Several evangelical pastors in East and North-East London exploited children’s charity funds to steal over 1 million British pounds, betraying the trust of their communities.
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UK imposes record sanctions to cripple Russia’s war effort
Britain has sanctioned 30 vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet in its largest-ever crackdown, cutting off oil revenues that fund the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.