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Twenty-one people, including children as young as 12, have been found inside a refrigerated lorry entering the UK. The group, thought to be from Vietnam, were concealed among a load of sparkling water at the port of Newhaven in Sussex on Thursday.   Details of the Border Force operation have only just emerged, but a criminal investigation is under way. ...

Prime Minster Theresa May has formed five new business councils to advise on how to create the best business conditions in the UK after Brexit. Big names on the forums include Tesco boss Dave Lewis, ITV chief Carolyn McCall, entrepreneur James Timpson, and CBI head Carolyn Fairbairn.   Each council will meet three times a year, twice with Mrs May ...

Peter Brown HE WAS DESCRIBED as the ringleader of an acid attack at a shop in Mare Street Hackney – and last month Peter Brown, 29, of Hope Avenue, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his crimes.The incident occurred on 10th March 2017. Four men – all wearing masks and gloves – burst into a supermarket ...

Britain would remain in a temporary customs union with the EU, avoiding a hard Irish border, as part of a new deal being thrashed out between London and Brussels, according to a Sunday Times report. Senior sources told the paper that Prime Minister Theresa May has secured concessions from Brussels, with the EU agreeing to write an “all-UK” customs union ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on French soil, and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be in London at a ceremony in Westminster Abby with Queen Elizabeth II. But while the leaders visit the capitals of Germany’s wartime enemies, at home there are no national commemorations planned for the centenary ...

A Japanese pilot who was arrested at Heathrow Airport for being drunk has admitted being more than nine times the legal alcohol limit. Katsutoshi Jitsukawa, 42, who works for Japan Airlines, was arrested on 28 October after failing a breath test.   He was found to have 189mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood in his system – the legal ...

London, Nov 1 : The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates on hold Thursday as it waits for the outcome of the stalled Brexit discussions between the British government and the European Union. After the decision on the bank’s main interest rate, which is currently at 0.75 percent, Governor Mark Carney will hold a news conference at ...

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses for the media as he holds up the traditional red dispatch box, outside his official residence 11 Downing Street before delivering his annual budget speech to Parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. London, Oct 30 : Britain’s Treasury chief unveiled Monday a new tax on big internet companies’ revenues, insisting it ...

  Find out who the movers and shakers are in the British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2018 London, Wednesday  24th October 2018 – The official launch of The Bangla Mirror Group British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2018 publication and award gala dinner will be held in the prestigious Meridian Grand on Tuesday 6th November 2018. The Bangla Mirror Group, publishers of the ...

Theresa May has said she is prepared to “explore every possible option” to break the deadlock in Brexit talks.   She told MPs 95% of the terms of exit were agreed but the Irish border was still a “considerable sticking point”.  While willing to consider extending the UK’s transition period beyond 2020, she said this was “undesirable” and would have ...