Image copyright PA Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK’s number one spot – giving him his first chart-topping single. The grime artist’s comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift’s Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road. Stormzy also broke the UK’s […]
Hundreds of operators in a high-pressure call centre are to switch to a four-day week with no loss of pay, as an insurer becomes the biggest UK company yet to trial a reduction in working hours. Simply Business, which sells insurance to landlords and small businesses and employs more than 500 people, will launch a […]
The Conservatives had faced a particularly tough task because the last time the seats were contested was in 2015, on the same day as elections for the national Parliament in which the party — then led by David Cameron — won a surprise victory. Labour, in contrast, did not do so well in 2015, and […]
Freshwater shrimp from the species Gammarus pulex like this one, collected in Suffolk county in the U.K., were found to have traces of cocaine. King’s College London hide caption toggle caption King’s College London Freshwater shrimp from the species Gammarus pulex like this one, collected in Suffolk county in the U.K., were found to have […]
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. Scientists find cocaine in UK shrimp – CNN
Image copyright Reuters MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency. This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was “a huge step […]
Image copyright Reuters MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency. This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was “a huge step […]
“Brexit has caused, in my opinion, the lack of trust,” she said. Brexit is not remotely on the agenda in these elections because councils have power only over local services like trash collection, housing and planning. (One of the points of contention in Colchester is whether the municipality should spend money on a giant sculpture […]
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson fired over Huawei leak – CNN
Media captionTheresa May: “I have voted consistently in Parliament for us to leave the European Union.” Theresa May has said she hopes the UK will leave the EU well before the new 31 October Brexit deadline. She told MPs there was no reason the UK could not leave in a matter of weeks once MPs […]
