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UK Gov’t Urges Young People to Have More Children Amid Plummeting Birthrates
Breitbart
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July 1, 2025
British Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has urged more young people to consider starting families amid the demographic crisis facing the United Kingdom. While young people in the West, particularly young women, have long been pushed towards...
Britannia Fire Warns of Industry Challenges Ahead of PFAS Ban
Fire Buyer International
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July 1, 2025
Andy Spence, Joint Managing Director of Britannia Fire, the leading manufacturer of fire extinguishers in the UK, last week addressed the Environmental Audit Committee in the House of Commons. He highlighted the significant challenges facing the...
Parliament questions resilience of transatlantic subsea cables due to concentration at Bude
New Civil Engineer
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July 1, 2025
The resilience of the UK’s transatlantic data connection via subsea cables has been questioned by members of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS). Data has become a critical component of modern life, economic activity and...
Britain is facing a swimming crisis with 9 million British adults admitting they don’t know how to swim
Chad
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July 1, 2025
New research has uncovered that half (50%) of those who didn’t learn as a child wanted to, while 42% admit to only staying in the shallow end and 33% now don’t feel confident in the water at all. While swimming and water safety are now a mandatory...
UK's Lindsey oil refinery insolvent, 420 jobs at risk
ETHRWorld
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July 1, 2025
Prax, led by Chairman and CEO Sanjeev Kumar Soosaipillai, could not immediately be reached for commentBy Shadia Nasralla LONDON: Britain's Lindsey oil refinery has begun insolvency proceedings, putting hundreds of jobs at risk and potentially...
Tougher UK visa measures for foreign workers tabled in Parliament
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 1, 2025
The British government on Tuesday tabled the first set of tougher visa norms in the House of Commons to curb the recruitment of foreign skilled workers across different sectors, including the care industry, dubbing it a “complete reset” of the...
Catholic Priest Denies Communion to UK Politician Who Voted for Assisted Suicide
LifeNews
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July 1, 2025
Catholic United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP) Chris Coghlan this weekend expressed outrage after his local priest reportedly announced to the parish that he would not give the MP Holy Eucharist because Coghlan recently voted in favor of...
Poetry competition judged by Will Poulter launched for young UK writers - how to enter
Chad
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July 1, 2025
A poetry competition has been launched for young writers across the UK - judged by Hollywood star Will Poulter. Over the summer holidays, award-winning children’s paper First News is encouraging children to write poems about the power of words in...
It's time to put an end to financial secrecy in the British Virgin Islands
Politics Home
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July 1, 2025
3 min read4 hr We cannot credibly aspire to be the anti-corruption capital of the world while the British Virgin Islands continues to avoid proper transparency. Once again, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have missed a critical deadline to...
Swiss parliamentary commission to investigate F-35 purchase
Swissinfo
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July 1, 2025
Parliamentary oversight investigates the F-35 purchase Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector Select your language Close English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence. Close Share...
Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out extending income tax threshold freeze as 7m Brits dragged into paying more to HMRC
GB News
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July 1, 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has declined to rule out extending the freeze on income tax thresholds beyond 2028, as the Government grapples with an estimated £2.5 billion cost from welfare reform concessions. During Treasury questions in the House of...
PIP changes explained with fears it will hugely impact Wales
Wales Online
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July 1, 2025
MPs will tonight vote on UK Government plans to reform welfare payments. It comes after a climbdown by the Labour administration after huge public outcry and facing a huge rebellion from its own MPs. At its height more than 100 Labour MPs said...
The Future of UK Sanctions is About More Than Implementation and Enforcement
Royal United Services Institute
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June 30, 2025
Recent months have seen a bumper policy harvest in the UK. From the strategic defence review to an updated national security strategy via the China audit, more than a dozen security-related reviews are underway or have been recently completed. Out...
Morecambe shortlisted in national awards celebrating UK’s thriving towns
Lancaster Guardian
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July 1, 2025
Morecambe BID is delighted to announce that Morecambe has been shortlisted in the 2025 Visa Let’s Celebrate Towns Awards, recognising the town’s achievements in connectivity and commitment to creating a vibrant and inclusive economy. Now in its...
UK government faces key test in welfare reform bill vote
Al Jazeera
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July 1, 2025
Keir Starmer faces crunch vote on welfare spending after watering down planned cuts to disability benefits. The United Kingdom’s Labour government hopes to limit a rebellion over welfare reform from its own politicians in a key vote in Parliament,...
UK government Solar Roadmap targets ‘once-in-a-generation’ local supply chain
PV Tech
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July 1, 2025
The solar supply chain of silicon-based modules is mostly concentrated in China, something that has been acknowledged and unchallenged in the solar sector for some time. While establishing domestic silicon panel manufacturing is not economically...
UK govt faces major rebellion in welfare vote
RTL Today
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced the most serious internal rebellion of his year-long premiership on Tuesday with MPs set for a close vote on welfare reforms that have already forced a damaging climbdown. The government backed down Friday on...
Foreign agents must register with UK authorities from TODAY or face jail… but Labour is accused of 'kowtowing' to Beijing as China is spared from the toughest rules
Daily Mail
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July 1, 2025
By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE Published: 08:37 EDT, 1 July 2025 | Updated: 08:47 EDT, 1 July 2025 Agents of foreign states must register their roles in the UK from today or face the threat of jail under a new scheme. The...
Peak Britishness? Pulp, pilots and paradox at Glastonbury
The Times
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The Red Arrows flying over the pyramid stage at Glastonbury just as Pulp were playing Common People provided a new definition of peak Britishness. As one might expect, the symbolism of that moment was replete with complexity and contradiction....
MP for Mansfield backs Royal British Legion’s call to strengthen Armed Forces Covenant
Chad
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July 1, 2025
Steve Yemm, MP for Mansfield, has pledged his support for the Armed Forces Covenant following a Parliamentary event he co-hosted with the Royal British Legion (RBL), Poppyscotland, and the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The event called for the...