Climate change demonstrations have blocked junctions around London’s orbital motorway, causing tailbacks and frustrating thousands of commuters and tradesmen in a bid to get the government to commit to insulation initiatives. Read Full Article at RT.com

British American Tobacco described claims by the BBC that it ran a shady op to sabotage rivals in southern Africa, and had to pay up to Zimbabwe’s ruling party when the spooks got caught, as a “mischaracterisation of our conduct.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Valneva has announced that the British government has terminated a deal it had struck with the company for it to supply doses of its Covid vaccine candidate, which is still under clinical trial, citing a “breach” of the contract. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emma Raducanu’s victory at the US Open on Saturday was celebrated by many in Britain, though a focus on her race and background turned the celebrations into debates on diversity. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK Health Minister Sajid Javid announced on Sunday that the government would not be introducing Covid-19 passports after a review on the matter and that it was not anticipating any more lockdowns. Read Full Article at RT.com

The security detail at the Royal Lodge in Windsor accepted the documents detailing the sexual abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew by one of the victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. His response is due soon in a US court. Read Full Article at RT.com

Footage has emerged of activists clashing with law enforcement while trucks containing weapons arrive under police escort ahead of a massive arms fair in London, to which 30,000 international delegates have been invited. Read Full Article at RT.com

The designer of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has called for surplus doses in the UK to be sent to countries with lower levels of vaccination, calling plans for a booster program unnecessary for the majority of immunised people. Read Full Article at RT.com

Brussels will not revise the post-Brexit trade agreement signed with Britain regarding Northern Ireland’s trade, the European Commission’s Vice-President Maros Sefcovic has affirmed, stating that doing so would bring instability. Read Full Article at RT.com

JK Rowling is facing an almighty backlash after a Twitter user apologised to the writer, allegedly after legal threats were made, over a “misleading” tweet about the author ignoring porn aimed at children online. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s Queen Elizabeth II supports the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and is committed to improving race relations in the UK, a senior Buckingham Palace representative has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK authorities foiled 31 terrorist plots in the past four years, the head of MI5 has said. He warned that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan likely served as a morale boost to domestic extremists. Read Full Article at RT.com

A former UK soldier and decorated war hero told RT how a close friend’s death and other harrowing scenes of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq have left a mental scar on him and many other veterans. Read Full Article at RT.com

Women in Scotland have taken their battle with the SNP and leader Nicola Sturgeon online after the nationalist party said that plans to reform gender laws in favour of self-identification were back on the table. Read Full Article at RT.com

A suspect has been detained by police after entering a petrol station in Bristol, England with a knife and forcing staff to hide in a safe room. One person was injured in the incident. Read Full Article at RT.com

Northern Ireland’s largest pro-British party has threatened to bring down the Stormont government unless there are big changes to the post-Brexit protocol which imposes trade barriers between the province and Britain. Read Full Article at RT.com

A suspect has been detained by police after entering a petrol station in Bristol, England with a knife and forcing staff to hide in a safe room. One person was injured in the incident. Read Full Article at RT.com

Police have been deployed against a knifeman inside a shop at a gas station in Bristol, England. The station staff have locked themselves in a safe room, while one person has been injured. Read Full Article at RT.com

An alpaca euthanised because it was said to have bovine tuberculosis did not have the disease, its owner claims, citing an autopsy. That conclusion is disputed by officials, who say the post-mortem offers evidence of the disease. Read Full Article at RT.com

Explosions have been reported and an enormous industrial fire has broken out in Kidderminster, England. With black smoke towering over the town, police have advised people to avoid the area. Read Full Article at RT.com

Over 80% of Britons over the age of 16 have now received two jabs of a Covid-19 vaccine, the government announced on Tuesday, as officials launch a new campaign to boost uptake among under-18s. Read Full Article at RT.com

Energy firm EDF was forced to turn on two coal power stations on Monday, ending the UK’s latest coal-free period, as the National Grid experienced a shortage of power due to low wind speeds across the country. Read Full Article at RT.com

Britain’s vaccine minister has dismissed talk of a planned firebreak lockdown this autumn if Covid hospitalisations remain high, but he said the ability to sustain the reopening of the economy will depend on the vaccine campaign. Read Full Article at RT.com

More than 300 British soldiers are being offered hearing loss assessments after trials of the £5.5 billion Ajax armoured vehicle programme were halted due to an excessive number of noise complaints, a minister has admitted. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s junior defence minister has refuted his own comments that British veterans have taken their lives over being upset by the US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan, adding that the ministry would be investigating. Read Full Article at RT.com

Former British PM Tony Blair has insisted the Afghan war has not removed the threat of radical Islam, describing it as a peril akin to revolutionary communism which now represents a serious, but uniting, security challenge. Read Full Article at RT.com

The BBC’s own watchdog has ruled that a 2020 Radio 4 show did not meet its standards for accuracy when it suggested an informant, who claimed the 2018 chemical weapons attack on Douma was staged, may have been motivated by money. Read Full Article at RT.com

Major public events could lead to a “real spike” in Covid-19 cases, so vaccine passports may be introduced at venues from late September to prevent that and avoid closing the economy, the UK's Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Michael Fawcett, a close aide of Prince Charles, has recused himself from leading the British royal heir’s foundation, after being accused of trading favours for money donated to the prince’s renovation project. Read Full Article at RT.com

Asked by Times Radio’s Tom Newton Dunn what would happen if a teenager’s parents said no to vaccination but the teenager said yes, UK vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said they would still be able to get jabbed without permission. Read Full Article at RT.com

Many care workers in the UK who were told to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or lose their jobs have left the industry en masse for better paid positions at companies such as Amazon, creating massive staffing shortages. Read Full Article at RT.com

People opposing and supporting asylum seekers in the UK gathered for competing rallies at the government district of Croydon in South London. Tensions escalated into an altercation with the police. Read Full Article at RT.com

London’s Heathrow Airport suffered huge queues and a dangerous lack of social distancing this week, despite the ongoing threat of Covid-19, due to a Border Force staff shortage which kept travellers waiting for five hours. Read Full Article at RT.com

A painting by Bristol-based street artist Banksy which started shredding itself immediately after being sold for £1.1 million ($1.52 million) in 2018 is going back under the hammer and expected to reach multiples of that price. Read Full Article at RT.com

The latest data from the World Health Organization has put Scotland’s health boards at the top of the charts for Covid-19 prevalence, and not for the first time, as many complain the SNP’s pandemic masterplan has been a failure. Read Full Article at RT.com