House prices in the UK stabilised in January following a series of monthly falls last year, according to new figures from the Halifax bank. Halifax said the typical property value remained largely unchanged in January 2023 at £281,684, compared with December 2022. The bank’s House Price Index (pdf) recorded 0.0 percent house price growth in…
UK House Prices Stabilised in January, Halifax Figures Show
February 7, 2023
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Serial Rapist David Carrick Jailed for Life for ‘Violent and Brutal’ Crimes Committed While Serving in Met Police
A man has been jailed for life for a minimum of 30 years after pleading guilty to 24 counts of rape and 25 other offences which were carried out, over the space of 18 years, while he was a serving Metropolitan Police officer. David Carrick, 48, was sentenced to serve a minimum of 30 years…
‘You Accept You Might Die’: A Year of Volunteering in Ukraine
Every time Jack Ross crosses the Polish border into Ukraine, he knows there is a high probability he could lose his life. The British aid volunteer has travelled to the war-torn country eight times since Russia’s invasion. There, his aid vehicles have been attacked, his team shot at and, on many occasions, he has narrowly…
UK Nurses and Ambulance Workers Stage Largest Strike in NHS History
February 6, 2023
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Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers have staged the biggest strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). The industrial action—the first time ambulance workers and nurses have walked out on the same day—has been organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) along with the GMB and Unite unions. The…
Delete TikTok App to Protect Your Personal Data, Says UK Lawmaker
February 6, 2023
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People should delete TikTok from their smartphones to protect their personal data from “hostile” threats, a senior British Conservative lawmaker has said. There have long been concerns around TikTok over its links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), because its parent company ByteDance was founded in the country, and critics have raised fears data could…
Nigerian Senator Recruited Kidney Donor and Trafficked Him to UK for Transplant, Court Told
LONDON—A wealthy Nigerian politician and his wife offered an itinerant hawker in Lagos up to £7,000 to give his kidney to their ill daughter and lied about him being a distant cousin in order to get a UK visa, a jury at the Old Bailey in London has been told. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife…
Australian Car Battery Start-Up Is Frontrunner to Buy Britishvolt
February 6, 2023
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An Australian firm has been selected as the preferred bidder to take over the majority of British electric car battery business Britishvolt, which fell into administration last month. Britishvolt had been promising to build a £3.8 billion gigafactory producing batteries for electric cars in Blyth, Northumberland. It said it would employ 3,000 people and produce…
The Victim Card Has No Place in Diplomatic Poker
Commentary Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has discovered that while playing the colonial guilt card might work well with left-wing audiences, the use of such finger-wagging on the international stage may be a diplomatic failure. Why Wong thought publicly shaming Britain over colonialism in London would be diplomatically sound is unclear. But unsurprisingly her call…
Just Stop Oil Protests Cost London Metropolitan Police £7.5 Million
Disruptive protests by the Just Stop Oil climate group cost British taxpayers £7.5 million ($9 million) in policing costs in just nine weeks, newly released figures show. Just Stop Oil, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, has been staging disruptive protests in an attempt to highlight its call for the UK government to begin the process…
Former Prime Minister Truss Says She Was Not Given ‘Realistic Chance’ to Enact Tax-Cutting Policy
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has blamed the “very powerful economic establishment” for her failure to realise her low-tax, high-growth economic vision in her brief time in office. Truss was forced to quit as prime minister in October after just 49 days in Downing Street, as the financial markets were plunged into turmoil after…
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