Tag: United Kingdom

• Monday, December 23rd 2024 - 08:57 UTC

  MMO celebrates £30 million in support provided to UK fishing and seafood industry in 2024

  

  The Marine Management Organization (MMO) is proud to celebrate its extensive support to the UK’s fishing and seafood industry in 2024 through various administered grant schemes.

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• Friday, December 20th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

  Bank of England leaves rate unchanged at 4.75%, but inflation is increasing with a no economic growth in 2024

  

  The Bank of England on Thursday left interest rates unchanged at 4.75%, despite an inflation rate that reached an eight-month high, pushed by services and wage increases. However three members of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted for a rate reduction, while six insisted in keeping them on hold.

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• Friday, December 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Defense minister Lord Coaker visits Chile and Brazil to strengthen defense relations

  

  Defense Minister Lord Coaker's recent visit to Chile and Brazil focused on supporting global security and tackling increasing threats. There, he held talks with his counterparts and industry as the UK strengthens relations with partners around the world.

• Friday, December 13th 2024 - 07:33 UTC

  Falklands: final deadline for British Passport

  

  The Falkland Islands Customs and Immigration Service would like to advise the public that the last date for the submission of British passport applications for forwarding to the United Kingdom Passport Agency during 2024, is by no later than 11.30 am on Friday 20 December 2024.

• Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

  Labour pledges 150 major infrastructure projects and 1.5 million homes, biggest building boom in half century

  

  The new Labour government in Britain is pledging more giga-factories, solar farms, roads, and railway lines are set to be green-lighted in the next five years, adding billions to the economy, as part of stretching new milestones.

• Monday, December 9th 2024 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazil, UK partnership to decarbonize industries explained

  

  After Brazil and the United Kingdom agreed during COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month to join forces in decarbonizing industries in both countries in a move to protect the environment, Agência Brasil delved this weekend into the scope of such an understanding.

• Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Colombia says more time needed for visas with UK

  

  Colombia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Roy Barreras asked Home Secretary Yvette Cooper for a meeting to postpone the application of the visa requirement saying it was highly untimely to set it into force ahead of the Christmas Holidays.

• Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 08:47 UTC

  The grand finale for JMC 2024, with PM Starmer and King Charles

  

  It was a grand finale for the two days Joint Ministerial Council held in London between the democratic representatives from Britain’s Overseas Territories and the new UK government’s cabinet ministers, chaired by Foreign minister Stephen Doughty. In effect, Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the group at the end of the event, reaffirming his government’s commitment to the OTs and the principle, “nothing about you, without you”. The Prime Minister also mentioned the Falkland Islands, when remembering his family’s despair during the 1982 war, after HMS Antilope went down with much loss of lives, and hours later it was reported that Starmer’s mother brother, miraculously survived.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  UK to ax amphibious assault ships, a frigate 31 helicopters and obsolete drones

  

  Two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and a pair of RFA support tankers will be decommissioned under a series of cost-saving measures announced on Wednesday to the House of Commons by Defense Secretary John Healey.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:35 UTC

  Successful trial of the Spear Missiles in Typhoons and F-35B fighters

  

  Royal Navy and Royal Air Force pilots will benefit from a cutting-edge new cruise missile, following the first successful guided firing trial of the SPEAR missile. SPEAR, which is a next generation turbojet-powered miniature cruise missile, successfully completed the trial after being fired from a BAE Systems-operated Typhoon jet at Vidsel range in Sweden.