UK

New investigation to be launched after ’2,000 police officers’ are implicated in corruption. Police corruption is to be investigated by a powerful committee of MPs amid fears of widespread impropriety – as The Independent reveals […]

Thousands turn out for the ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ demo in London “The average worker is £50 a week worse off than in 2007 and five million earn less than the living wage. Meanwhile, […]

A flock of sheep maybe feeling woolly headed after eating thousands of pounds worth of cannabis that crooks dumped on their farm. They were found stumbling and uneasy on their feet after munching seven bags […]

Research published by charity ‘Age UK’ on Friday, reveals that poverty among UK pensioners is rife,with 1.6 million living below the poverty line and a startling 900,000 living in ‘severe poverty.’ Caroline Abrahams, charity director […]

Britain’s top private schools are coming under scrutiny from anti-corruption groups for unwittingly accepting laundered money from wealthy foreign criminals and corrupt officials. The British private school Millfield is alleged by police in Moldova to […]

Former Conservative MP Louise Mensch has suggested a Labour government would not be able to cope with an outbreak of Ebola in the UK – after falling for comments made by a parody Diane Abbott […]

Migrants may have to “earn the right” to some welfare payments under plans being considered by the Labour Party. Deputy leader Harriet Harman said the party was considering toughening up the rules as she acknowledged […]

Welcome to 2014. Here is Britain’s prime minister posing with some blacked-up Morris dancers David Cameron was pictured with his daughter Florence at the Banbury Folk Festival on Saturday. From i100

The number of people in work in the UK has finally returned to pre-recession levels. But is everything as rosy as it seems? As this map shows, the growth in jobs has regional variations, despite […]

Sister act? BBC journalist Martina Purdy has quit her job to join a religious congregation as a nun. What is she leaving behind? With 25 years in journalism, 15 of which were with the BBC, […]