Category: UK News

The BBC’s Sound Of 2025 runner-up is Ezra Collective, a band that has won the Mercury Prize and become the first jazz act to sell out Wembley Arena. The charity Tomorrow’s Warriors introduced Ezra Collective to jazz, which they thought was an elite and inaccessible genre at first. The quintet rips the genre rulebook to… Continue reading BBC Sound Of 2025: Jazz stars Ezra Collective are runners-up

Food prices are expected to rise in the latter half of 2025 due to changes announced in the Budget, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which said there was “little hope” of prices going anywhere but up. The costs of higher wages and National Insurance tax changes which take effect in April will be… Continue reading Food prices ‘not going anywhere but up’, warns retail body

Over half of the English county councils with elections planned for this year may delay the events in order to explore options laid out in a major redesign of local government announced last December. At least 12 of the 21 councils due to hold elections in May are expected to request that ministers postpone the… Continue reading Half of county councils in England could see election delay

A former police officer who headed a grooming investigation in Oxford has warned that similar sexual abuse is still happening, saying that the “guys we couldn’t catch are still out there”. Simon Morton, the former senior investigator for Thames Valley Police, told the BBC that perpetrators in the region are operating in plain view and… Continue reading Grooming still happening in Oxford, ex-detective says

The UK government plans to introduce new sanctions targeting the finances of people smuggling networks in an effort to curb illegal migration into the country. The measures are expected to come into effect later this year, and will be the first in the world to specifically target people smugglers. The sanctions are designed to disrupt… Continue reading People smugglers to see finances targeted by UK

An 18-year-old male has been taken into police custody on suspicion of murder following a shooting outside a church in north-west London. The Metropolitan Police stated that 44-year-old Michelle Sadio was shot whilst standing outside the River of Life Elim Pentecostal Church amongst other mourners on Gifford Road in Harlesden. The shooting took place at… Continue reading Michelle Sadio: Man arrested over woman shot dead outside church

Sir David Davis, a former Conservative cabinet minister, has called for baby serial killer nurse Lucy Letby to be retried after claiming the evidence presented in court was insufficient. In a Commons adjournment debate, Sir David compared the Letby case to that of Sally Clark, who was exonerated in 2003 after being wrongly convicted of… Continue reading Sir David Davis calls for Letby retrial, claims 'no hard evidence'

A coroner’s court in the UK has opened an inquest into the death of Liam Payne, a member of hit boyband One Direction, who died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. The singer’s medical cause of death has been confirmed as “polytrauma”, a term for multiple… Continue reading Liam Payne's medical cause of death confirmed as polytrauma

The arrest of Lucy Letby on suspicion of murdering babies did not result in her suspension from nursing duties, according to a recent public inquiry. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) was criticised for not acting and interpreting its guidance differently. After Letby’s arrest in July 2018, a senior lawyer at the NMC concluded there… Continue reading Letby murder arrest not grounds for nursing ban, inquiry told

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is now reviewing a full file of evidence produced by the Metropolitan Police about an unnamed Premier League footballer accused of rape. The police have been continuing their investigation into alleged sexual offenses that occurred between 2021 and 2023. Five women have accused the footballer – referred to in media… Continue reading CPS given file over Premier League footballer rape claims