Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly mulling a new tourist tax raid in a bid to shore up public finances. But while the approach would be a novelty in the UK, similar charges are already widespread ...

Jacob Fearnley is making waves at the Australian Open (Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP) Tennis took Jack Draper and Jacob Fearnley on different paths from their days as junior rivals but they have ...

Britons must wear glasses or contact lenses every time they drive if they are necessary to meet the "standard of vision for driving". According to GOV.UK rules, drivers must tell the Driver and ...

It might be the scourge of any polite social interaction. But the British are among the best in the world at enduring an awkward silence, scientists have found. A study has calculated the precise ...

A YouGov survey conducted on 14-15th August, shortly after the UK riots broke out, found that almost four times as many Britons have a negative view of Musk (64 per cent) as a positive one (17 per ...

In the shadows of York’s storied walls, an ancient Roman skeleton has revealed an astonishing secret: Scandinavian heritage predates the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in Britain. Long before the ...

A British woman and her South African fiance have been found dead in a holiday villa in Vietnam, local police have said. Greta Marie Otteson, 33, was discovered by staff dead on a bed in a first ...

Almost half of Britons don't have confidence in the police to turn up if their home was burgled, a shocking new poll has revealed. Some 46 per cent of adults have given up on the idea of a home ...

Elon Musk has described Reform as the UK’s “only hope” as he stepped up his public support for Nigel Farage’s party and urged Britons to vote for it. The tycoon and close ally of Donald ...

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More Britons thinks the economy is worsening rather than improving, new findings from KPMG suggest. Four in ten people said they thought the economy was ailing, while a quarter said it was ...