Tag: United Kingdom

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Climate change protestors clear London's busiest streets: 1.065 arrested

  

  Some of London's busiest streets re-opened Monday for the first time in a week as climate change protesters regrouped and plotted a new course after police made more than 1,000 arrests. The so-called Extinction Rebellion took over the heart of the British capital in a bid to focus global attention on rising temperatures and sea levels caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:14 UTC

  Mrs. May to face an unprecedented no-confidence challenge from Tory grassroots

  

  UK Prime Minister Theresa May is to face an unprecedented no-confidence challenge - from Conservative grassroots campaigners. More than 70 local association chiefs - angry at her handling of Brexit - have called for an extraordinary general meeting to discuss her leadership.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Mrs. May will be asked to step down from office by the end of June, says leading Tory member

  

  A top member of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party will tell her in the coming week that she must step down by the end of June or her lawmakers will try again to depose her, the Sunday Times reported, without citing sources.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:25 UTC

  Easter Sunday with record temperature in the UK

  

  Three of the UK's nations have recorded their highest ever Easter Sunday temperatures, the Met Office has said. Scotland's peak was 23.4C (74F), in Edinburgh, while that same temperature was also the high point in Wales - coming in Cardiff. Northern Ireland beat a 95-year-old record when the mercury hit 21C at Helen's Bay near Bangor.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 93rd birthday on Easter Sunday

  

  Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest and longest reigning living monarch, celebrated her 93rd birthday on Sunday, Apr 21, by attending the traditional Easter service at Windsor Castle.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:06 UTC

  UK pub numbers dropped from 54.000 to 43.000 in seven years

  

  Nearly 1,000 UK pubs shut last year, although the rate of closures is slowing, new research claims. About 76 pubs a month “vanished” from the communities they served in 2018, as people spent less on going out and pubs faced cost pressures, said property firm Altus Group.

• Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 11:40 UTC

  Emma Thompson joined climate change activists in central London

  

  Film star Emma Thompson joined climate change activists in a central London shopping district on Friday to read poetry praising Earth's bounties, part of five days of protests which clogged the British capital with transport snarl-ups.

• Friday, April 19th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Top Foreign Office diplomat visits Falklands to address Brexit and consequences

  

  Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service at the Foreign Office (FCO) this week assured that the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and the FCO are “working on a common agenda, which is to secure the future of the Falkland Islands.”

• Friday, April 19th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  ConocoPhillips pulling out of the North Sea oil exploration and production

  

  ConocoPhillips is pulling out of UK exploration and production after selling its North Sea oil and gas assets to Chrysaor for US$ 2.68bn (£2bn). The sale will boost Chrysaor's production by about 72,000 barrels a day to 177,000 - making it one of the UK's biggest operators.

• Friday, April 19th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Falklands' delegation to UN conference will take two community representatives as advisors

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands is inviting two members from the community to accompany the official delegation to the UN Special Committee on Decolonization or C24, next June, as representatives of the Islands.