Train service between Britain and France was hit by the heatwave on Friday, with passengers warned to expect delays and problems with the air conditioning. “It’s a very busy day, it’s the day when everyone leaves on holiday,” a said a spokesman for Eurotunnel, which operates a drive-on train service for cars and trucks going through the Channel Tunnel. ...

  Prime Minister Theresa May is to hold Brexit talks with the Austrian chancellor on Friday before heading off on her summer holiday. Mrs May will also attend a music festival in Salzburg as a guest of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.  She is holding talks with Mr Kurz and Czech PM Andrej Babis as she seeks to win support for her ...

  F R Chowdhury: It was Wednesday 18-July-2018, I was still on my morning breakfast listening to the TV news. The headline news was about a court verdict that gave £210,000.oo damages to Sir Cliff Richard for breach of his privacy by BBC. The story relates to a police search of Sir Richard’s house to look for suspected evidence of ...

Labour leader outlines UK-first approach as he set out plans for reviving Britain’s industrial base after Brexit Government manufacturing contracts should be awarded where possible to UK companies, Jeremy Corbyn has argued, as he outlined Labour’s plans for reviving Britain’s industrial base following Brexit. In a speech to business leaders in Birmingham which at times veered close to advocating protectionist ...

The personal collection of US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon 49 years ago on 20 July, will be auctioned by his family.   Containing over 2,000 items, the collection will go on sale in a series of three auctions with the first in November 2018 and other two in May and November 2019, ...

Service centre staff say glitches having harmful effect on huge number of claimants Universal credit is so riddled with design flaws and process faults that it is practically guaranteed to generate mistakes and delays that would push vulnerable benefit claimants into hardship, according to whistleblowers. Service centre workers have told the Guardian that glitches and errors in the “cobbled-together” system ...

Prime minister sets off on summer tour to gain public support for Chequers plan Theresa May will chair a cabinet meeting in the north-east of England as she starts a summer campaign intended to gain public support for her much-criticised Chequers Brexit plan. The visit on Monday is intended primarily to show the government’s ongoing support for the “northern powerhouse” ...

  Conservative Friends of Bangladesh organised its annual dinner and award giving ceremony on 17th of July in a hotel in Kensington.  A number of British MPs and senior party leaders took part in the dinner. While addressing the audience, the MPs told that there will be MPs of Bangladeshi origin from Conservative Party in near future. A number of Conservative ...