The Latest Breaking News from United Kingdom

Female Afghan judge wins legal battle to come to UK

‘Overjoyed’ justice and son, who spent two years in hiding in Pakistan, reunited with family after landmark case

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor

University of Chichester proposes redundancy for Hakim Adi, first Briton of African heritage to become a professor of history in UK

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

As Greece burns, we see the existential climate crisis dragged into shoddy UK party politics. That can’t happen

A terrible lesson is being taken from the Uxbridge vote. Labour must stick to its green agenda, and decent Tories must raise a voice, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

Thomas Cook cancels holidays to Greek island along with Jet2 and Tui

THOMAS Cook has cancelled all holidays to areas of Rhodes most affected by the wildfire until July 31.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 23, 2023

Gaelic lullabies and ‘bodies everywhere’: How the UK’s deadliest whale stranding in decades unfolded

Rescuers tell Andy Gregory of the desperate effort to keep members of the pod alive – and the arduous post-mortems which could shine light on why these incidents may be on the rise

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2023

UK bill waters down protections against ‘robo-firing’ in gig economy, say experts

Law would weaken right to force app-based firms to explain automated decisions, says research group

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

UK airlines still selling tickets to Rhodes despite wildfire inferno

Travellers on package holidays enjoy better consumer protection than people who have booked flight-only deals

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2023

UK political parties are getting the jitters over green policies after a special election verdict

Environmentalists are cautioning Britain’s main political parties not to water down their climate change promises

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2023

Rhodes wildfires: UK monitoring situation as holidaymakers evacuated from hotels

Jet2 Holidays and Tui have both cancelled bookings to the island while easyJet confirmed all flights would continue as normal

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2023

Hundreds of millions in UK aid returns to Treasury in VAT on asylum hotel bills

Exclusive: Payments underline absurdity of counting British accommodation as aid, say critics, and cost of application backlog

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023