Category: UK

Airports in chaos after air traffic control outage grounds flights across UK

Aircraft and crews were left out of place as planes grounded or turned around mid-air at peak holiday season

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Met Police set to increase use of facial recognition technology amid force restructure

The Met said that it had made 1,000 arrests using live facial recognition, of which 773 had led to charge or caution

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Your food shopping bill is set to increase. Here’s how much

Food inflation is set to soar to 6 per cent by the end of the year, posing a “significant challenge” to household budgets just as Christmas approaches, industry leaders have warned.

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These are the most affordable market towns for first-home buyers

The typical amount paid by first-time buyers for a home in a market town has increased by 2 per cent annually and by 26 per cent since 2020

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Billionaire hotel tycoon reveals Heathrow Airport expansion bid with ‘shorter’ third runway

The billionaire’s Arora Group has published the plan which rivals a proposal from the airport’s owners

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Why fathers are being urged to apply for jobs at nurseries and pre-schools

Only three workers out of every 100 in the early years sector are men

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Striking doctors have ‘squandered the goodwill’ of government, health secretary says

Wes Streeting also ruled out pay rises for resident doctors but said he’d be willing to discuss other areas

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Wild otter cub rescued after sneaking into zoo’s flamingo enclosure

Mingo the otter cub was found ‘snoring his head off’ in the enclosure at Colchester Zoo

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Judge allows Palestine Action to challenge Home Office over terrorism ban

Pro-Palestine group was proscribed under terror laws after activists broke into an RAF base and sprayed planes with paint

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Reform UK unveils ex-Tory MP Adam Holloway as latest defector

Reform UK has unveiled the defection as it seeks to brush off the impression it is running out of steam

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