United Kingdom
5 Sep 2023
The council of the UK's second biggest city, Birmingham, became Tuesday the latest local authority to declare financial distress, with the opposition blaming Conservative governments of years of under-funding.
4 Sep 2023
Pan-African public relations agency, LSF PR, is thrilled to announce the launch of its operations and office in the United Kingdom. With an impressive track record of over a decade in strategic and corporate communications and a well-established Pan-African presence across East, West, and South Africa, LSF PR is poised to redefine the PR industry…
29 Aug 2023
The British government said Tuesday it will delay introducing post-Brexit border controls on food and fresh produce from the European Union, postponing the start date to January 2024.
24 Aug 2023
Mauricio Pochettino said on Thursday he is worried about making a "mess for the squad" by extending Chelsea's spending spree by signing another forward.
24 Aug 2023
The UK government on Thursday ordered an independent inquiry into the case of a man who spent 17 years in prison before his rape conviction was quashed on appeal.
17 Aug 2023
Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, along with leaders of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo community, have called upon Nigerian youths to disregard any issue that might cause strife and division in the nation.
16 Aug 2023
Scores of migrants, many of them children and a pregnant woman, arrived in small boats on England's south coast on Wednesday, undeterred by the dangerous Channel crossing from France which claimed at least six lives over the weekend.
16 Aug 2023
Britain's annual inflation rate dropped sharply in July to a 15-month low, official data revealed Wednesday, off the back of lower energy prices and in line with economists' expectations.
14 Aug 2023
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blames the "criminal gangs" facilitating small boat Channel crossings for the "horrific" weekend deaths of at least six migrants, his spokesman said Monday. Six Afghan men died and dozens more required rescuing after a small vessel bound for the southeast English coast from France sank in the Channel in the…
11 Aug 2023
Hospital doctors in England has launched their latest walkout on Friday as the government said their strike to demand a 35-per cent pay increase served "only to harm patients".
11 Aug 2023
More than 100,000 migrants have crossed the Channel on small boats from France to southeast England since Britain began publicly recording the arrivals in 2018, official figures revealed on Friday.
26 Jul 2023
The UK is "clearly not on course" to protect nearly a third of its land and seas by 2030 as pledged in international commitments, a parliamentary watchdog report said Wednesday. So far, only 6.5 percent of the earmarked sites have been protected, with just seven years left to meet the promise of 30 percent. The…
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