George and Fiona Cottrell, connected to prominent political circles, have been interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan Police. The development marks a significant escalation in scrutiny of the couple.
Andy Burnham has talked tough on stamp duty and council tax, calling both systems broken. But what would a Prime Minister Burnham actually do — and can he afford to?
UK vets are warning that pets can suffer fatal heatstroke without any exercise, even while resting indoors on hot days. Flat-faced breeds and older animals face the highest risk as British summers grow more extreme.
More than 60 MPs are demanding the UK government host a prime-time televised climate emergency briefing modelled on Covid-era press conferences. The push comes as new data shows fewer than a third of British adults can name a single government climate target.
Andy Burnham has apologised for Labour’s early response to the Gaza conflict, calling it “a real failure” that hurt communities across Britain. His remarks are among the most candid from any senior Labour figure on a period that cost the party at the ballot box.
The government has offered to meet a woman abused by a neo-Nazi MI5 agent after a secret inquiry found the service knew he was “obsessed” with violence. Her legal team is demanding a full public inquiry, not a private meeting.
The UK’s first romantasy bookshop has opened in Edinburgh, organised by trope rather than author and stocking 400 titles at launch. It’s the latest sign that a once-dismissed genre has firmly arrived.
The Old Continent has good reason to be concerned that the U.S. defense industrial base is no longer supplying the weapons promised to NATO allies, given that American stockpiles have been depleted due to the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, prompting allies to consider new ways to arm themselves and defend themselves. As NATO leaders,…
Prince Harry has arrived in the UK for a week of charity engagements just as the High Court prepares to rule on his phone hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers. The Duke is expected to attend the WellChild Awards and Invictus Foundation events while awaiting one of the most significant legal verdicts of his life.
Sara Canning, former partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee, says she hopes the gunman who killed her is haunted every day by what he did. Six years on, no one has ever been charged with the shooting in Derry.
