Category: UK
EU citizen who applied for pre-settled status set to be deported from Scotland
An EU citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency status is set to be deported by Border Force officials [more…]
Ian Paterson tells inquest women ‘didn’t need to know’ about unauthorised mastectomy
The jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson has said he did not tell women if he was going to perform an unauthorised cleavage-sparing mastectomy on them [more…]
UK politics: Starmer insists pro-growth policies on way after OBR’s budget warnings – as it happened
after five years they would not be making any difference. Asked about this forecast, in an interview with the BBC Keir Starmer said that he [more…]
UK’s borrowing costs rise as Reeves’s budget prompts fears of slower interest rate cuts
UK government borrowing costs have risen to their highest level this year as City investors bet Rachel Reeves’s budget would lead the Bank of England [more…]
Consultant who treated Yulia Skripal ‘gobsmacked’ when she woke up, inquiry hears
A hospital consultant who treated Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok was “gobsmacked” when Yulia woke and began [more…]
Autumn budget live: major tax rises expected as Rachel Reeves prepares to set out first Labour budget in 15 years
Rachel Reeves will announce almost £3bn more from the armed forces in the budget, the Telegraph is reporting. In their story Nick Gutteridge and Danielle [more…]
Nuclear submarine shipyard fire at Barrow-in-Furness leaves two in hospital
Two people have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out at BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness shipyard in Cumbria, police said. Cumbria constabulary said the [more…]
Budget cuts mean farmers in England ‘must do more with less’
Farmers and conservationists will have to “learn to do more with less” ahead of expected deep budget cuts to the Department for Environment Food and [more…]
Experiencing intense emotions with others makes people feel more connected, study finds
Whether it is laughing at a classic comedy or watching a horror film from behind a cushion, movies can generate myriad feelings. Now researchers say [more…]
Reeves to promise ‘wealth and opportunity for all’ in major tax-raising budget
The UK’s national minimum wage is to rise by a higher than expected 6.7% next year, Rachel Reeves has announced before a multi-billion pound tax-raising [more…]