The UK has recorded 78,610 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, the country’s highest since the pandemic began, as Westminster embarks on an ambitious booster campaign to slow the spread of the Omicron variant. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK health officials were forced to correct Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, following interviews on Tuesday during which he twice gave the wrong number of hospitalized Omicron patients, providing wildly inaccurate figures. Read Full Article at RT.com

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab will unveil his proposal to revise UK human rights legislation on Tuesday in a bid to challenge “wokery and political correctness” and prevent “spurious” claims being made. Read Full Article at RT.com

The NHS website for booking Covid-19 vaccinations went down as tens of thousands of people logged on to reserve their booster shot after the UK government rolled out its plan to offer one to all adults by the end of the year. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s NHS Blood and Transplant service has warned it’s facing a “critical” situation over the winter, as seasonal viruses such as cold and flu halt donations, leaving blood stocks at a dangerously low level. Read Full Article at RT.com

The new Omicron strain has claimed its first victim in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed during a visit to a vaccination clinic in West London. Read Full Article at RT.com

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to offer booster shots to every English adult by the New Year, warning that two doses are “simply not enough” for the coming “tidal wave” of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to offer booster shots to every English adult by the new year, warning that two doses are “simply not enough” for the coming “tidal wave” of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

Scotland’s privacy regulators are investigating a government census asking children as young as 14 a range of intimate questions about their sex lives, including whether they’ve ever had anal sex. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK has raised its Covid alert level from three to four – its second-highest – as transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus “is high or rising exponentially.” Read Full Article at RT.com

The owner of a Cardiff micropub has apologized for abusing the Test and Trace system to send “creepy” messages to a female customer. It’s not the first time a woman has been harassed after providing her info to a business. Read Full Article at RT.com

Crowds desperate to buy shirts designed by the mysterious street artist Banksy have been seen in Bristol, UK. They were released to support protesters on trial for toppling a slave trader statue during a Black Lives Matter march. Read Full Article at RT.com

British scientists have employed mathematical modeling to forecast the potential impact of the ‘super-mutant’ Omicron variant of Covid-19 in England, advocating additional control measures to avoid the worst-case scenario. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK defense ministry has reportedly pulled an “inclusive language” guide that instructed troops on how to communicate without causing offense. Critics had slammed the rules, which featured gender discourse, as “woke nonsense.” Read Full Article at RT.com

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has suffered a ministroke, due to extreme stress while fighting extradition to the US from the maximum-security Belmarsh jail in London, according to his fiancee Stella Moris. Read Full Article at RT.com

London Metropolitan Police officers confronted and fatally shot an armed man near Kensington Palace, home of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The incident is not being treated as terrorism. Read Full Article at RT.com

The infamous Christmas party at Downing Street apparently wasn’t the only lockdown-defying soiree hosted by top Conservative Party officials. According to reports, evidence of more ill-advised gatherings is about to come out. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK government has released its proposal to introduce “one of the toughest bans in the world” on the importing of hunting trophies from endangered animals, almost two years after promising to address the issue. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former Conservative minister Andrew Griffiths has been found guilty of raping his sleeping wife and subjecting her to coercive control, a UK judge ruled on Friday. Read Full Article at RT.com

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has seen his party’s ratings drop in the wake of the political crisis caused by a scandal over last year’s Downing Street Christmas celebrations. Read Full Article at RT.com

A British High Court has ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face espionage charges. Here’s how the WikiLeaks co-founder ended up behind bars and what could come next. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK government is reportedly considering implementing ‘Plan C’ Covid restrictions to combat the threat of the Omicron variant, as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warns the nation is facing a “tsunami” of cases. Read Full Article at RT.com

London’s Metropolitan Police deny that “institutional homophobia” hindered their investigation into a serial killer targeting young gay men. They say their inexperience with the gay scene allowed the killer to go free for so long. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK High Court has granted the US government’s appeal over the refusal to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, opening the door for his eventual trial on American soil on espionage charges. Read Full Article at RT.com

A massive rave at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s residence with over a million potential attendees is being organised on Facebook in protest over an alleged Downing Street Christmas party last year as the country was locked down. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK's Counter-Terrorism Policing (CTP) unit has said it foiled seven «late-stage» attacks since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The report comes after the country recently saw two attacks within weeks of each other. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK High Court is set to issue its ruling on Friday morning on the American government's appeal over the refusal to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. Read Full Article at RT.com

Hundreds of people gathered outside Westminster Palace late on Wednesday to protest against the bill granting sweeping powers to the UK police. The rally quickly spiraled into clashes between protesters and police officers. Read Full Article at RT.com

A photo of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell at Queen Elizabeth II’s log cabin was released during Maxwell’s trial, with the two sitting in the same spot where the Queen was photographed. Read Full Article at RT.com

British PM Boris Johnson has unveiled revised Covid-19 rules, which he said are designed to stop the spread of the Omicron variant. Most will be familiar to Brits, who may feel a sense of deja vu from earlier pandemic ‘waves’. Read Full Article at RT.com

Boris Johnson spokesperson Allegra Stratton has announced her resignation hours after the prime minister publicly apologized for jokes she made about a potentially illegal Downing Street Christmas party last year. Read Full Article at RT.com

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new Covid restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of new Omicron variant, including the return of work from home advice and introducing coronavirus passports at certain settings. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under fire over claims a Christmas party was held at Downing Street last year in violation of Covid rules after a video surfaced of government officials joking about the event. Read Full Article at RT.com

ITV breakfast television show ‘Good Morning Britain’ received backlash on social media after deleting a poll which showed a vast majority of respondents opposed mandatory Covid-19 vaccination. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK has seen its highest yearly increase in the number of deaths directly related to alcohol consumption, new government figures show, with the somber record reached in 2020 amid the pandemic. Read Full Article at RT.com