Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  Scottish Brexit bill is being sped through Holyrood, ahead of row with London

  

  The Scottish Government’s Brexit bill passed on Wednesday its first parliamentary hurdle after its general principles were approved by MSPs. The UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill is being sped through the Scottish Parliament as emergency legislation amid a row between UK and Scottish ministers over devolved powers returning from Brussels.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  Leaders of far-right group Britain First found guilty of religious aggravated harassment

  

  The leader and deputy leader of far-right group Britain First have been found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment. Paul Golding, 36, and Jayda Fransen, 32, were arrested over the distribution of leaflets and posting of online videos during a gang-rape trial.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Major UK/Moscow diplomatic row in the making: nerve gas was used in murder attempt in Salisbury

  

  British Home Secretary is to make a Commons statement on the Salisbury poisoning mystery amid calls for a police investigation into 14 suspicious spying-related deaths in recent years. Amber Rudd will report to MPs on the dramatic disclosure by Scotland Yard that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a deadly nerve agent and targeted in an attempt to murder them.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  UK threatens Russia with robust response if ex spy and daughter have been poisoned

  

  Britain has threatened a “robust” response if it is proven that Russia is behind the apparent attempted killing of a former double agent. Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found collapsed in their home town in southern England on Sunday, showing symptoms of poisoning.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  UK supermarkets ban sales of energy drinks to children under 16

  

  Sales of energy drinks to children under 16 have been banned in most major UK supermarkets, amid concerns about high levels of sugar and caffeine. Boots is also joining supermarkets such as Asda, Waitrose, Tesco and the Co-op in introducing the rule.

• Sunday, March 4th 2018 - 15:49 UTC

  Sterile by obligation: “I cannot donate sperm because I am Venezuelan”

  

  I was stunned when the occupational assistant, with a form in hand and looking to me over her glasses, told me “is that if you are Venezuelan you cannot participate in this program”. We were just her, a newly purchased stretcher and a plate of donuts.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 19:58 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine tombstones with the names of identified soldiers should arrive Sunday

  

  An Argentine charter is scheduled to land in the Falkland Islands this Sunday carrying the plaques (tombstones) with the names of the 88 now identified Argentine soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery following a DNA forensic identification process during last year, led by the International Red Cross.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:46 UTC

  Theresa May and Donald Tusk clash over Brexit: “real political difficulties”

  

  ”Real political difficulties” lie ahead for Brexit, EU summit chair Donald Tusk said after Prime Minister Theresa May gave him a preview of the vision of future trade ties she will unveil on Friday. Over lunch on Thursday at her Downing Street office, May told Tusk a draft Brexit treaty published by the European Union on Wednesday was “unacceptable” in its proposal of keeping Northern Ireland effectively in an EU customs union, potentially isolating the province economically from the British mainland.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:20 UTC

  British Forces confirm defense talks in London between Argentina and UK

  

  Falkland Islands' weekly Penguin News has received confirmation from the British Forces South Atlantic Islands Headquarters that earlier this week United Kingdom and Argentina held defense talks for the first time in over ten years. This week's PN reported on the front page that the Argentine newspaper Clarin released the story on the defense talks, but had no British defense confirmation to its request at the time of going to print.

• Thursday, March 1st 2018 - 10:13 UTC

  Gibraltar in shock: it will mobilize all its options to counter any EU exclusion

  

  The Government of Gibraltar has stated that it is not surprised by the reference to Clause 24 in a footnote to the draft legal text on the Withdrawal Agreement published by the European Union27 on Wednesday. However, it nonetheless constitutes a disgraceful affront to a small British country that voted by 96% to remain in the European Union.