The United Kingdom Gambling Commission has charged 15 people, including former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s aide and ex-MP Craig Williams, for placing bets on last year’s General Election. They have been charged for breaching the Gambling Act 2005 for allegedly placing bets on the election date using advance knowledge. The update on the UK General…
Patients at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) are being forced to rest their heads on makeshift pillows made from towels due to shortage of standard hospital pillows. A physiotherapist admitted to the claim that the hospital offered a makeshift pillow during her stay. Claire Sapwell, a 53-year-old physiotherapist from Cromer, was admitted twice in…
Britain’s biggest retailers are urging the government to scrap the tax rule that allows Chinese ecommerce giants such as Shein and Temu to ship cheap goods to the UK, amid fears that they will flood the market in response to President Trump’s tariff regime. Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said…
The UK economy is suffering a “harrowing” year caused by President Trump’s tariff regime and a £25 billion tax rise on employers, a survey of businesses showed on Tuesday. Researchers at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) warned that business confidence slid to its lowest level in more than two years…
Ministers are facing warnings about the extent of China’s involvement in Britain’s critical infrastructure amid a race to keep furnaces at British Steel’s Scunthorpe site going. The government’s decision to step in to protect the company has shone a spotlight on other areas of critical infrastructure in which Chinese firms have a stake. Not all…
President Trump’s shift to sector tariffs targeting semiconductors and pharmaceuticals is bad news for British and Irish exporters. Not even an announcement by Nvidia that it will build its AI supercomputers entirely in the US rather than Taiwan is going to dissuade Trump from the ambitious new phase of his tariff agenda. Quite the reverse…
Refuse workers in the British city of Birmingham on Monday refused a deal to end a weeks-long strike that has left tonnes of uncollected rubbish piled high in the streets, union officials said. Rubbish collectors in major UK city reject deal to end strike The vote came as army logistics staff were called in to…
Here are some of the people that Reform UK has put on the ballot paper for the May local elections across England. Reform UK has boasted of how rigorously it is vetting its candidates and called them “outstanding“. But let us take a look at some of those appearing on ballot papers with ‘Reform’ next…
The next local elections are taking place in May 2025 Local elections take place every year(Image: inyourArea) The next local election is taking place on Thursday, May 1, as millions of people across the UK set out to vote for 1,631 council seats, 23 county, unitary and metropolitan councils, and six directly elected mayors. Heading…
LONDON — Britain’s government on Monday raced to secure raw materials to keep the country’s last steelmaking blast furnaces running, as Beijing warned the United Kingdom against politicizing the takeover of Chinese-owned British Steel. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government swooped in on Saturday to prevent the closure of British Steel’s main plant in northern Scunthorpe…