Tag: England

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  UK government preparing great Brexit night celebration, including special coins for January 31st

  

  Britain will issue special coins, fly the Union Jack and project a countdown clock on the walls of Downing Street - but not bong Big Ben - on Brexit night, the government said on Friday.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Next Labour leader will be known on 4 April: crucial fight between centrists and Corbynists

  

  Britain's Labour Party on Monday began the formal contest to replace its leader, with centrists set to battle left-wingers in a fight for its ideological soul. Veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn announced he would step down following last month's crushing defeat to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Boris Johnson is “dangerous and unfit for office”, claims Scottish leader Sturgeon calling for a vote to “escape Brexit”

  

  Scotland's leader Nicola Sturgeon is to accuse Prime Minister Boris Johnson of being “dangerous and unfit for office” as she launches the SNP's election manifesto. The SNP leader will say that a vote for her party on 12 December will be a vote to “escape Brexit and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands”.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  New Falklands Patrol, HMS Forth, sails to the South Atlantic

  

  The Royal Navy's HMS Forth has set sail for a long-term deployment into the Falkland Islands. The ship left Portsmouth Naval Base early Friday for the South Atlantic where she will act as the Islands' Protection Vessel, replacing HMS Clyde.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  What happens to the United Kingdom now?

  

  By Chris Patten – Even after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, the country will face years of talks in which it will be negotiating from a position of weakness. The UK will be less prosperous and influential than before and will be under increasing internal strain because of policies driven by malignant English nationalism.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Londoners can visit Argentina's training vessel ARA Libertad this week end

  

  Argentina's Navy training tall vessel ARA Libertad on her 48th voyage docked on Thursday in London, where she was received by the Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Carlos Sersale, representatives of the Royal Navy and members of the Argentine community in UK.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Western leaders and ageing veterans will mark the 75th anniversary of Normandy Allied landing

  

  Western leaders and ageing veterans will gather on the shores of France on Thursday in a second day of events marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied amphibious assault that opened the way for western Europe's liberation from Hitler's forces.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  World leaders join in south England to honor Allied soldiers on 75th anniversary of D-Day

  

  Queen Elizabeth II is set to join British Prime Minister Theresa May, other world leaders and World War II veteran on the southern coast of England on Wednesday to honor the Allied soldiers who risked and gave their lives in large numbers 75 years ago for the D-Day invasion that helped liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2019 - 08:59 UTC

  England's to ban plastic straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers by April 2020

  

  Plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds will be banned in England from April 2020, British Environment Secretary Michael Gove said on Wednesday.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Brexit frustration: English voters punish both Conservatives and Labour, Liberal Democrats big wins

  

  English voters used local elections to punish both Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party for the deadlock over Brexit, partial results showed on Friday.