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Pokemon World Championships in London

Five thousand competitors from over 57 countries competed at the Pokemon World Championships at London's ExCel Arena.

22/08/2022

Green News

Is Brexit to blame for the UK’s poor quality bathing water?

New data analysis has shown that sewage discharged into the environment isn't being properly monitored and some say Brexit is to blame.

22/08/2022

Culture news

Do these Fringe jokes make you laugh?

The Funniest Joke of the Fringe prize has been given to comedian Masai Graham - will it make you laugh?

22/08/2022

Tech News

A former hacker wants to stop others like him. The law won't allow him

Daniel Kelley went to prison for a high-profile hacking. His post-jail conditions bar him from using his skills - or even carrying out everyday tasks.

21/08/2022

United Kingdom

Workers across the UK go on strike as cost of living keeps rising

Workers at the UK’s largest container port are set to walk out, joining thousands of other across the country striking for better pay.

21/08/2022

United Kingdom

Major travel disruption in London as public transport workers strike

The UK has been gripped by industrial action this summer, with public transport staff staging another walkout over job cuts, pay and working practices on Friday.

19/08/2022

Home

Could humans be calling this inflatable house home on the Red Planet?

The two artists behind the project have spent seven years building a house that’s more about living on Mars rather than just surviving.

19/08/2022

Europe Decoded

Fact check: Do 25% of UK hosts want to kick out Ukrainian refugees?

Russian state media have claimed that many British families who are hosting Ukrainian refugees now want to kick them out.

19/08/2022

Experiences

Inside London's most exclusive private members' clubs

London seems to have a private members' club on every corner. Here's what goes on inside.

19/08/2022

United Kingdom

British army trains Ukrainian soldiers in urban combat techniques

Ukrainian soldiers are receiving urban combat training at military bases in England as part of a programme to train 10,000 recruits, many of whom have little military experience.

18/08/2022

Green News

This 'solar leaf' floats on waterways to create energy like plants

This ‘floating leaf’ could one day decarbonise some of the world’s biggest polluters, according to University of Cambridge scientists.

18/08/2022

United Kingdom

Britain endures a summer of strikes amid cost of living crisis

Tens of thousands of rail workers are staging more strikes from Thursday, in the biggest industrial action for three decades.

18/08/2022

Culture news

Is the Edinburgh Fringe pushing out smaller acts?

The Edinburgh Fringe has returned this year, but as accommodation prices sky-rocket, is it still a viable way for new comedians to make their mark?

17/08/2022

Europe News

UK starts legal action over exclusion from EU science programmes

"The EU is in clear breach of our agreement, repeatedly seeking to politicise vital scientific cooperation by refusing to finalise access to these important programmes," said UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

17/08/2022

Sport

Is Elon Musk really buying Manchester United?

The Tesla boss said on Tuesday in a tweet that he was buying the English Premier League side - but it's all just a joke.

17/08/2022

United Kingdom

'Europe not cause of UK's problems', says UK's Liz Truss in old audio

In a leaked recording from some years ago. the pro-Brexit favourite to become prime minister said British workers, not migrants, were to blame for the UK's ills.

16/08/2022

Conscious Travel

Paddleboarders scared to fall into the 'green soup' of this UK lake

The Lake District's biggest lake could be on the verge of "ecological collapse" due to algal blooms linked to sewage pollution.

16/08/2022

Culture news

The language app designed to save minority European languages

The app IndyLan was designed to help people learn minority languages, but a lack of funding post-Brexit is holding it back.

16/08/2022

Travel News

British Airways staff secure a 13% pay rise after 'tough negotiations'

Union chiefs still say that BA has a long way to go before it can "restore the trust and confidence" of its workforce.

16/08/2022

United Kingdom

French World Cup winner Benjamin Mendy stands trial for sex offences

A prosecutor said the case had "very little to do with football", and was more about men who "think they are powerful", a British court hears.

15/08/2022

United Kingdom

Rivals to succeed Boris Johnson blasted for 'fantasy' economic plans

Prime ministerial contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, as well as the main opposition leader, have been criticised by a prominent economist over their ideas for tackling the cost-of-living crisis.

15/08/2022

United Kingdom

EU migration to UK plummets post-Brexit as labour shortages bite

Just 43,000 people from EU member states received visas — accounting for just five per cent of all visas granted that year.

15/08/2022

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Ultimate battle of minds and lungs at Diving Chess World Championships

As the UK basks in the latest heatwave, many have flocked to local swimming pools to cool off and, if one of your favourite past times happens to be playing chess, what better way to combine the two than to enter The World Dive Chess Championships.

15/08/2022

Health news

Britain approves Moderna's Omicron-adapted COVID booster

Each dose of the booster shot will target both the original COVID virus that was first detected in 2020 and the omicron BA.1 variant.

15/08/2022

United Kingdom

UK to unseat Champagne wine due to climate change: Study

Climate change could see the UK usurping the major wine growing regions of Champagne and Burgundy in France, a new study claimed.

14/08/2022

Work

Which university degrees will earn you the most money?

Degrees have again come under the spotlight in the UK, with Rishi Sunak he will cut the lowest-paying ones if he becomes the future Prime Minister of the UK.

13/08/2022