150 aerospace jobs safeguarded in deal between UK, Sweden and Thailand It follows a two-year campaign involving close collaboration between the three nations. Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025
JCB ‘backs Britain’ with £100m factory investment despite tax and tariff fears Spending would be going towards modern manufacturing facilities at the company’s main UK factory in Staffordshire. Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025
Kosovo offers to become first country to accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers However, Kosovo is an outlier in the region, whose other leaders say ‘looking for places to dump immigrants’ is evidence the UK is in ‘a very dark place’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025
Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ Chancellor to tackle loophole under which partners do not pay employer national insurance The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025
Britain sends small number of troops to monitor Gaza ceasefire Defence secretary says UK will play ‘anchor role’ in US-led civil military coordination centre The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025
Anti-Migrant Protest Leader Who Warns 'Protect Our Children' Was Convicted of Child Abuse A shocking investigation reveals how anti-migrant protest leader Gemma Mattinson—once convicted of child cruelty—has become the face of a 'Protect Our Children' movement, sparking national debate on hypocrisy, extremism and child-safety rhetoric in UK activism. International Business Times UK · Oct 21, 2025
'Another Reason to Quit Facebook': Brits Furious as Meta Axes Messenger Desktop App From 15 December Meta is shutting down the Messenger desktop app in the UK from 15 December, triggering outrage and intensifying concerns over privacy, ads and Facebook's future in Britain. International Business Times UK · Oct 21, 2025
Grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, ask for pardon David Lammy urged to consider 1955 case in light of evidence Ellis was abused by partner before she killed him The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025
Intelligence on ‘extreme’ Maccabi fans with history of violence led to Villa Park ban Exclusive: West Midlands police were told supporters randomly attacked Muslims in Amsterdam last year The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025
British troops sent to Israel to help monitor Gaza ceasefire Defence Secretary John Healey says UK forces could play ‘an anchor role’ by contributing their ‘specialist experience and skills’ to securing a long-term peace Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025
British troops sent to Israel to monitor Gaza ceasefire UK defence secretary John Healey said a two-star British army officer would become deputy commander of a US-backed civil-military stabilisation force The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025
Cancelling the Putin-Trump Budapest summit ends the fantasy the US president can deliver peace in Ukraine ANALYSIS: Sam Kiley in Dnipro, Ukraine, welcomes the collapse of the Budapest summit and argues that to give peace a chance Kyiv must be able to better make war The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025
Nintendo's first UK store ever is open to the public now –and I've already been If you like merch, oh boy, does it have merch T3 · Oct 21, 2025
Four out of five Britons want Andrew to be formally stripped of his dukedom A YouGov poll showed 80% of people want Andrew to have his Duke of York title officially removed amid calls for him to quit his Windsor mansion. Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 UK removes HTS from list of banned terror groups The UK Government said the move would allow for closer engagement with Damascus.
The Conversation · Oct 21, 2025 Chinese car firm BYD is racing ahead with its electric vehicles. Here’s how more established brands can catch up Electric cars made by the Chinese car firm BYD are now a familiar sight on British roads. In September 2025, the company sold 11,271 vehicles in the UK – ten times as many as in the same month last year.
TechRadar · Oct 21, 2025 Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5/M5 Pro/M5 Max): a small upgrade unless you love AI Apple’s MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5) features the latest chip from the Cupertino company, and it's just been super-charged with newer, more powerful, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 Putin accused of ‘stalling’ over Ukraine peace talks as Trump meeting postponed European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer said Vladimir Putin was not serious about the prospect of an end to the war with Ukraine.
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 Israeli embassy in UK hits out at ‘hostility’ after Maccabi Tel Aviv row Maccabi Tel Aviv will not take up its allocation of away tickets for the game against Aston Villa despite efforts to lift a ban on travelling fans.
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 FTSE 100 holds firm amid hefty gold miner losses Experts said the drop was a sign of ‘healthy price action’.
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 Talks on Balkans ‘return hubs’ for failed asylum seekers ongoing Talks are set to continue with countries in the region.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025 ‘Significant exposure’: Amazon Web Services outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant Cloud computing disruption highlights risk of deepening ties despite warnings from UK’s own regulators, including the Treasury
Tom’s Guide · Oct 21, 2025 AWS was down — live updates following massive outage that broke the internet Amazon Web Services experienced experiencing a huge global outage. While a fix was attempted, it seemed to have knocked out other services. Here's a live report on what's happened, why it's happened and when a fix is occurred.
Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025 Brexit has made UK economy and productivity ‘weaker’ than thought, says Reeves The expected downgrade of the OBR’s previous assumptions is likely to make filling a black hole in her Budget even harder.
International Business Times · Oct 21, 2025 Virginia Giuffre Memoir Goes On Sale, Piling Pressure On Prince Andrew The memoir of one of Jeffrey Epstein's main accusers whose claims sparked the downfall of Britain's Prince Andrew shot to the top of Amazon UK's bestseller list Tuesday as it went on sale, ratcheting up pressure on the disgraced royal.