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At a cost of over £1.3 million per year, Britain’s tax collecting agency HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reportedly employing some 22 full-time diversity officers.

LONDON (AP) – A Royal Navy warship has returned to port in Britain after several sailors got sick from the vessel’s drinking water, officials said Saturday.

Police in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States coordinated to arrest several administrators and programmers linked to three darknet child pornography websites with thousands of active users.

The British state is urging healthy people aged 16 to 49 to come forward for their third coronavirus jab by mid-February if they have not been “boosted” already.

The New York City-born former Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson has said that he would not rule out a potential bid for the White House.

A Sikh man who sought to assassinate the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day has pleaded guilty to treason.

Turkey for a second day on Friday railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul.

Former British premier Boris Johnson has been slammed as a “coward” and a “liar” by Tucker Carlson after backing out of an appearance on his FNC show. 

A Christian mother is suing her four-year-old’s school in Britain after it allegedly forced her child to take part in an “LGBT Parade”.

British Gas employed debt collecting contractors who broke into the homes of vulnerable people to install prepayment meters.

LONDON (AP) – The Bank of England raised interest rates by half a percentage point Thursday as it sought to tame double-digit inflation that is fueling a cost-of-living crisis, public-sector strikes and fears of recession.

Reform UK called for an end to foreign ownership of Britain’s utility firms to prevent the taxpayer from being continuing to be “ripped off”.

The UK government told local councils to crack down on people using wood-burning stoves with fines of £300 or potential criminal prosecutions.

An Iranian migrant has been sent to a mental health hospital “indefinitely” over the killing of an elderly woman who housed and fed him.

The UK government reportedly handed out nearly £160 million directly to alleged asylum seekers through a debit card payment system.

The UK’s domestic security service, MI5, has been found to have illegally retained private data of citizens for nearly half a decade.

Violent male criminals and rapists who claim to be “transgender” are indeed women, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.

Moscow waded into the controversy over a BBC documentary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, siding with Modi and his supporters by denouncing the documentary as part of the “information war” waged by Western media outlets against Russia as well as India.

Three years to the day after the UK mostly left the EU, Britons who voted to leave are right to feel betrayed, Farage has said.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he will not rule out sending fighter jets to Ukraine, reports have claimed.

The case of double rapist ‘Isla Bryson’, formerly Adam Graham, has shone a spotlight on another trans prisoner in Scotland – a convicted killer who identifies as a baby.

Britain’s armed forces are no longer able to play a full role in NATO or defend the homeland after years of cutbacks, according to British defence sources, with a senior American general warning London that it has a “barely tier two” force.

Male rapists and criminals who describe themselves as being “transgender” women, Scotland’s justice secretary has declared.

Personal taxes surged a remarkable 11.45 per cent, an average increase of over £800 per household, a report claims, with worse to come.

Nadhim Zahawi out amid allegations he settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country’s Treasury.

One of “the most dangerous” biologically male transgender prisoners is set to be transferred into a women’s prison in Scotland.

The wife of the First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford has died suddenly, the locally devolved government in Wales announced on Saturday.

London’s Metropolitan Police recruited officers who are “functionally illiterate” in order to increase diversity, a watchdog has admitted.

Hunt said taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some for immediate tax breaks.

Private landlords in Britain are reportedly set to be offered long-term leases from the government to house the overflow of migrants.

An Afghan migrant that has now been convicted of multiple murders is said to have asked out a number of “14-year-old girls” while posing as a child in Britain.

Ukrainian refugees displaced from their war-torn homeland have said that they feel scared in England as there are “too many Muslims”.

The UK government announced that it is set to ban transgender convicts with “male genitalia” or sexual offenders from women’s prisons.

Hussain Chehab, a London police officer who was posted to a school in the city, has pleaded guilty to a number of child sex abuse offences, reports have claimed.

Nearly 400 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats from the beaches of France on Wednesday.

Isla Bryson, formerly Adam Graham, has been found guilty of raping two women prior to claiming to be a transgender woman.