The Latest Breaking News from United Kingdom

6 ways to light your home during a blackout

Households across the UK could face power cuts this winter

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2022

Highways country music festival will take over the Royal Albert Hall in 2023

The news will excite the UK’s growing country music fan base

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2022

I gave years to the UCKG evangelical church before realising I had to escape its clutches

I was young and vulnerable when I first joined. Now I’m helping other survivors of its practices, says Rachael Reign, founder of Surviving Universal UK

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2022

Suella Braverman sent advent calendar of refugee “hopes and dreams” by activists

The Home Secretary has been sent an advent calendar featuring the hopes and dreams of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK after she professed it her “dream” to see them deported to Rwanda. The calendar, delivered to Suella Braverman from a network of activists, counts down to Christmas with…

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2022

London council rejects new Chinese embassy amid residents’ safety fears

People living near Tower of London site said largest diplomatic base in UK would put lives at risk

The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2022

Labour beats Conservatives to retain UK parliament seat

Britain's opposition Labour Party scored a resounding victory in a vote for a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday, underlining the scale of the challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to win a general election in the next two years.

Reuters · Dec 2, 2022

'Significant' step forward on Nottingham's £1bn Island Quarter as plans announced for new facility

There will be two buildings linked together, with officials saying the development will 'further enhance Nottingham’s reputation as the bioscience capital of the UK'

Nottingham Post · Dec 2, 2022

Chris Whitty warns UK faces 'prolonged period' of excess deaths due to lockdown effects

Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance have published a report of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, saying if they did not act the way they did "the outcomes would have been significantly worse"

Daily Mirror · Dec 2, 2022

‘I thought about ending my life’: Cara Delevingne says internalised homophobia made her suicidal

‘I couldn’t talk to anyone about it,’ recalls the model as her new documentary airs in the UK on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2022

What are the dates of additional benefit payments in December?

Help is out there for those on low incomes struggling with rising prices and high bills

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2022