All news on the topic: United Kingdom

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Brexit border checks to ’add billions’ to consumer bills
Post-Brexit checks will add more than £330m to annual business costs and 0.2% to food inflation over three years, the government admitted.
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Britain’s wealthiest Romani millionaire shares why he won’t return to the UK
Born to a poor Romany Gypsy family in 1970, Alfie Best has amassed a huge fortune of more than £700million and has now moved to the millionaire’s playground of Monaco
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Deported Albanian inmates in UK enjoy plush prisons with amenities
Around 12 murderers, eight rapists and more than 100 guilty of drugs or firearm offences are due to be deported to Albania to serve the remainder of their sentence
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‘Plasma was called liquid gold’: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal
Documents examined by inquiry show officials knew people were being given infected blood products, but sanctioned their use
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Brewing giant Heineken has cut down an orchard to sell the land
The UK’s largest cider maker has chopped down a huge orchard, sparking fears for wildlife as it is a natural bird habitat.
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Briton charged with aiding Russia and planning arson against Ukraine-linked business in UK
Dylan Earl accused of organising arson attack in east London and four others charged in connection with investigation
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A British man has undergone testing for the first personalized melanoma vaccine
An important trial of the world’s first "personalised" mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is now under way in the UK.
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Rishi Sunak pledges to increase UK defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030
Rishi Sunak has promised billions more for defence to counter threats from "an axis of authoritarian states".
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A warning is issued following the emergence of deadly pink cocaine drug detected in Ibiza and the UK
As the summer and party season hits soon, police have issued a warning about pink cocaine being used in places like Ibiza and the UK.
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The surge in Vietnamese migrants being smuggled into the UK on small boats is reportedly fueling the country’s cannabis and prostitution industries
Many in Vietnam are trapped in poverty and are susceptible to promises made by people smugglers of the riches to be found in the UK
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Price of tea skyrockets as cost of cuppa soars after Middle East conflict
Customers back in the UK are seeing a rise in the cost of a cuppa due to the war in the Middle East and inflation, with a box of 80 tea bags up 7% on a year ago
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Britain’s smoking ban just another blow for parliament’s Pipe and Cigar Club
As the government seeks to ban tobacco sales to younger generations, parliament’s pipe and cigar enthusiasts are feeling nostalgic.
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A UK seaside town plans to remove a newly built Spanish-style plaza, just months after its construction
Kent County Council is due to scrap a pedestrian zone of the seafront at Herne Bay following feisty opposition from local motorists who love to drive their cars in that specific bit of town
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UK inflation has decreased by a smaller margin than anticipated, reaching 3.2%, which dampens hopes for a rate cut
Predictions for when Bank of England will start lowering cost of borrowing pushed back
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New UK smoking ban faces key vote - how it works and how it will impact you
MPs will be given the first chance today to debate and vote on plans to raise the legal age to buy tobacco up by ’one year, every year’ to stop youngsters taking up smoking
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42-hour snow blast to freeze nearly all of Britain with one area the worst affected
The UK is set to be hit by a 42-hour snow blast as temperatures plummet across the country, with one part of England set to be worst-hit by the sub zero conditions weather
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Grand National security ’planning for worst case scenario’ at Aintree as terror attack ’likely’
Extra security measures have been introduced for the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in Merseyside after Animal Rising’s protest last year – as well as increased risk of a terror attack in the UK
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Briton and French wife face £11,000 Brexit visa bill to return home to UK
Stephen Kaye has Parkinson’s but couple blocked from Britain despite having paid taxes there
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Ex-civil service chief warns of need for wartime-level defense spending in UK
Britain must ramp up its defence and aid spending and bolster its diplomatic and intelligence networks amid “the most dangerous period” since the Cold War, the UK’s formerly top civil servant has warned.
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After Jeffrey Donaldson’s bombshell exit, what next for Northern Ireland’s DUP?
As party reels, new leader Gavin Robinson faces a U.K. election that could cost him his seat.
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UK quit Erasmus because of Brits’ poor language skills
Britain turned down an offer to remain a member of the cultural exchange program after Brexit.
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UK goods face new Canada tariffs in latest Brexit trade blow
Hopes of a last-minute resolution have been dashed.
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Meghan Markle ’anxious’ and unsure about UK return as Prince Harry plans appearance
Prince Harry will be making a trip to the United Kingdom for an Invictus event, but Meghan Markle may not join him. She is anxious to make a return to the country
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Brit fighting for Russia dubs UK ’fascist state’ as he rails against Ukraine vowing to ’put them in boxes’
Aiden Minnis has condemned Brits supporting Ukraine as he fights for Putin’s army in the Donbas region, claiming on a Kremlin-linked Telegram channel that he would ’continue putting them in boxes’
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UK accuses China of cyberattacks on British democracy
Britain rolls out sanctions and summons Chinese ambassador as it points finger at ‘Chinese state-affiliated actors.’