LONDON – Trucks owned by U.K. shellfish firms descended on Britain’s Parliament Monday to protest the Brexit-related red tape they claim is suffocating their businesses.
About a dozen large lorries — one bearing the words “Brexit carnage!” — drove past…
Scottish fishing industry workers descended on Whitehall on Monday to protest Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal.Footage showed dozens of large lorries driving through central London adorned with slogans showing workers’ fury after experiencing problems…
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olice are hunting a shooter on a moped after two rounds were fired on homes in west London.
The shots were discharged within a 24 hour period and in the second incident a property was damaged by the gunman.
Police swooped on Cornwall Crescent, &n…
Michael Apted’s Up, a Decades-Long Film on Britain’s Class System
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John Merrick
The 1964 film Seven Up! asked 14 British seven-year-olds about their hopes of being the “shop steward and the executive of the year 2000.” Revisiting them every seven y…
Battling boredom has become one of the toughest aspects of life over the past year.
Since March 2020, when the whole country was plunged into its first lockdown, we have had to learn to entertain ourselves without the comfort of organised sport, restau…
Ten further mass vaccination centres are due to open in England this week with more than a million over-80s invited to receive their coronavirus jab as part of the drive to protect 15m people in the most vulnerable groups by mid-February.It comes as he…
Nearly half of people in the UK have antisemitic views, according to a poll.Forty-five per cent of British adults agreed with at least one of six antisemitic tropes put to them by researchers at YouGov and King’s College London.These included idea that…
Boris Johnson will host this year’s G7 summit in the tiny seaside resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, where he will urge world leaders to unite in “building back better” from the pandemic.
Joe Biden, who will be US president by then, is expected to atten…
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ovid testing centres in Luton have been closed due to snowfall while some Londoners woke up to a white dusting.
The three rapid testing centres in Hertfordshire have been shut as snow fell amid icy conditions.
Confirming the decision on Twitter, …
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ore than 3 million people in England were vaccinated against coronavirus in just over a month, new figures show.
A total of 3,189,674 Covid-19 jabs were administered in the country between December 8 and January 14, according to provisional NHS Eng…
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ondon is set to be blanketed with snow on Saturday amid weather warnings affecting many parts of the UK.
The snowfall will begin in the capital “around three or four in the morning” and will continue into the afternoon, the Met Office said.
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There are reports of at least one crash on the Mancunian Way which has led to its closure westbound.
The A57(M) is closed from its junction with London Road and the Chester Road roundabout following a collision.
It has also been reported that there has…
With their new album ‘Nature Always Wins’ landing on 26th February via Prolifica Inc, Maximo Park are sharing their latest teaser, with new track ‘All Of Me’.
“It’s a love song about the power of song itself, buoyed by the uplifting music in the choru…
By Elizabeth Piper, Kate Holton4 Min ReadLONDON (Reuters) – Britain believes it can resolve post-Brexit “teething issues” that have disrupted exports of Scottish fish to the European Union, a minister said on Thursday, in comments that further charged …
The first report from Public Health England’s (PHE) Siren study found that antibodies from past infection provide 83 per cent protection against reinfection for at least five months.
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