France has seen unrest at English Channel ports by fishermen angry at their loss of rights in British waters following the end of the post-Brexit transition period. Some set up burning barricades at Boulogne-sur-Mer in late April to stop lorries carrying imported fish from the UK.

The news comes a day before voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots on so-called Super Thursday, during which different types of elections are set to take place. In Wales and Scotland, constituents will choose members of their local parliaments, while in England voters will elect mayors as well as police and crime commissioners.

Backers of the Duchess of Sussex became very vocal on Twitter on Wednesday, celebrating her victory against a British tabloid, the Mail on Sunday.

The future king of the United Kingdom had an issue with Meghan Markle even before the controversial Oprah Winfrey interview took place, according to British media.

In July 2019 a 27-year-old Kosovan was shot dead after an “altercation” at a snooker club in east London. A former “promising footballer” is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of his murder.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The official cause of Prince Philip's death has been listed as "old age", The Telegraph reports citing the death certificate, which suggests the Duke of Edinburgh did not have any identifiable disease or injury that contributed to his death.

In the run up to the Scottish parliamentary elections on 6 May, the UK prime minister said on Wednesday that an independence referendum is not a priority for most people in the country.

British supermarkets, food suppliers, and manufacturers have warned politicians in Brazil that goods from the country will be banned in the UK if a law propelling deforestation in the Amazon is passed.

Last week, Boris Johnson told MPs that he personally paid for the redecoration of his Downing Street flat amid Electoral Commission claims there were "reasonable grounds" to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred following an assessment of the funding of work at 11 Downing Street.

Professor Neil Ferguson, who resigned from the government's SAGE advisory committee after breaking his own lockdown rules to sleep with a married woman, has reinvented himself as a born-again proponent of unlocking, based on good news coming from the vaccination front.

Labour has held the Hartlepool constituency since 1964 — and survived the loss of dozens of “Red Wall” seats, some of which had been Labour's for a century, in the 2019 general election that saw Boris Johnson's Conservatives win a landslide victory.

Dalian Atkinson played 200 games in the English Premier League and won the League Cup with Aston Villa. But after spells in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and South Korea the striker retired from football in 2001.

Last month Johnny Mercer resigned as a defence minister in protest at the treatment of British veterans who served in Northern Ireland. Mr Mercer had then attended the trial in Belfast of two former soldiers accused of a murder during The Troubles.

The G7 started out as the G6 in the 1970s when the club included France, Britain, West Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. Canada was later invited to join but the club has since refused entry to new members.

Last month the British government said it would cut carbon emissions by 78 percent by 2035 and would hit the net-zero target before 2050. The government says there will also be a need to reduce meat and dairy consumption.

LONDON (Sputnik) – UK Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, said on Tuesday that his party was "fighting every vote" in the local elections to be held across the United Kingdom later in the week.

According to the latest poll by Sky News among 1,015 Scottish voters, the region is now evenly divided about Scotland's sovereignty. In 2014, voters opted in favour of staying in the United Kingdom.

On Monday, Boris Johnson claimed he had not broken any laws related to the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat, insisting that he had "personally" paid for the work.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of UK media mogul Robert Maxwell, who prior to his death owned Macmillan, one of the world's oldest publishing houses, reportedly had a close relationship with the deceased convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. His alleged partner in crime is believed to have procured underage girls for sexual services.

George Galloway has faced violent threats from "nationalists" during his campaign for election to the Scottish parliament. A man was arrested in March after threatening to shoot him and Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross — but was bailed out of jail last week after pleading guilty.