18+ hour, 52+ min ago   (580+ words) More than 800 hospitality businesses have written to the Prime Minister urging him to set out how he will introduce a lower rate of VAT. The VAT’s The problem campaign has called for the hospitality VAT rate to be reduced from…...

18+ hour, 52+ min ago   (499+ words) Peers are to debate calls for a cap on political donations amid concern from campaigners over two £36 million donations from crypto-billionaires to Reform UK. The donations from Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo, disclosed over the weekend, together amount to three…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (97+ words) A 76-year-old man has been charged with concealing his identity at an anti-immigration protest in Portsmouth after police warned they would use powers to arrest demonstrators wearing face coverings. Timothy Miller, of Southampton, is accused of wearing or using an…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (290+ words) He deemed Brexit ‘a mess’ and said the UK needs to rebuild links with the EU. Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy has “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit and that rejoining the European Union’s customs union would be…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (594+ words) A by-election to replace former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras will take place on October 8. The Greens will on Friday unveil their candidate to challenge Labour in the Holborn and St Pancras…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (504+ words) An air traffic control issue caused more than 2,000 flights arriving or departing the UK to be cancelled this week. Flight disruption that caused chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers has eased, as airports said their operations have returned to…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (472+ words) A centuries-old letter of recommendation from the king of France for William Wallace is set to go on display across the UK. The “Wallace letter” was written in 1300 by King Philip IV of France to his agents in the court…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (584+ words) The families of two police officers who were killed in a head-on collision on the A66 have been given “overwhelming” support from around the world, a Police Federation chairwoman said. A funeral will be held on Wednesday in Hartlepool for 37-year…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (164+ words) Tens of thousands of passengers were caught up at several airports. The UK’s main air traffic control provider said widespread disruption to flights was not caused by a cyber attack. Flight monitoring website Flightradar24 said 1,300 flights had been cancelled to and…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (579+ words) The parents of two students who were stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane have branded Nottinghamshire Police’s decision not to disclose information about the killer “shameful”. Calocane killed first-year students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, before fatally…...