The UK aerospace sector has received a boost through an order of 100 new aircraft from Vietnamese carrier VietJet. Following a meeting between Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and Vietnamese General Secretary,

The Labour government was elected in July last year with a manifesto stating that under the Conservatives rough sleepers were “an all too-common sight in our towns and cities” and promising to “put Britain back on track to ending homelessness.

Questions about the trustworthiness of the system at the heart of the UK’s plans for a national digital ID are arising as fast as they are answered.

Britain on Wednesday sanctioned what it said were Balkan-based criminal gangs producing forged documents used in human trafficking, and several others involved in financing such illegal migration.

A damning report finds foreign aid spending on migrant hotels is not effective, and pulling development aid will lead to "devastating consequences".

An Afghan refugee who is rebuilding her life after fleeing the Taliban has thanked the UK for giving her family sanctuary. Nahid Hamidi and her husband Ahmad were being targeted by the Taliban over Ahmad's work as a British Army interpreter and fled the country in 2021.

The government's statistics agency said 523,000 people turned their backs on the state-run National Health Service, or NHS, in 2024 to seek treatment overseas. The number was up on the 431,000 who did so in 2023, and much more than the 348,000 recorded in 2022.

The most common demands are for bans or restrictions on the sale and use of fireworks, followed by concerns about noise pollution affecting animals and vulnerable people, and worries about public safety and anti-social behaviour. Other campaigns call for fireworks to be limited to specific nights, such as Bonfire Night only.