Category: UK News

Alan Taylor, a member of the central bank’s nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee, said there was a small but growing chance that the UK will witness negative growth and “recession dynamics start to kick in”. It came as the bank rate-setter cautioned that it is “increasingly likely” that the UK economy will fall into a “weakened state…

In its latest outlook report, the influential economic body said price inflation in the UK would increase more sharply than expected in both years compared with previous predictions from July. It came as the IMF increased its UK growth forecast for this year but reduced its prediction for 2026 amid concerns over the labour market….

Sir Gavin told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday: “I readily accept that there were many mistakes that were made, both pre-pandemic and in those early stages of the pandemic.” He also said he was sorry the DfE had not been sharp enough in its response. “The weight wasn’t put on to that emerging scientific…

In letters to parliamentary committee chairs and the Home Secretary, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner Michael O’Flaherty raised concerns around both trans rights and the policing of protests after ministers banned Palestine Action as a terror organisation. Mr O’Flaherty, who published the letters on Tuesday following his visit to the UK in July,…

The celebrity chef’s firm revealed it will launch a new Bread Street Kitchen in the first half of 2026 at the 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper in the City, where it already has the Lucky Cat eatery and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High, plus a cookery school. It said about 200 jobs have been created so far at…

The market is set to take place across three days, October 17 to October 19, and will run from 10am to 4pm. The event is held at Skirsgill Auction Mart. Visitors can expect the same set-up as the Spring event. A spokesperson for Potfest said: “See the work of the well-established alongside the up-and-coming, in…

Fayaz Khan made the threat between October 12 and 15 last year in a TikTok video – which Mr Farage described as “pretty chilling”. Southwark Crown Court heard he gave British police the name Fayaz Khan and his age as 26, but Swedish authorities believe he is called Fayaz Husseini and is aged 31. The…

According to research, eating peppermints can increase alertness in people who are ill with the common cold. Scientists at Cardiff University looked at whether having a cold impaired mood and performance and if these effects could be removed by sucking peppermints. They monitored 81 students over 10 weeks and during that time 17 participants developed…

Due to energy bills seeming to always be on the rise alongside general cost-of-living worries, understandably, people are looking for ways to cut some costs in that area too. There is a relatively easy tip that people could utilise as a way to heat their home more efficiently, thus meaning it doesn’t have to be…