Russia’s refusal to extend the visa of BBC’s correspondent Sarah Rainsford is an attack on media freedom, the British state broadcaster said. Moscow had said it would retaliate to the UK imposition of ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions. Read Full Article at RT.com

A majority of the UK citizens say they would not return to a professional they’d used in the past if the person hadn’t been vaccinated, as the country continues to warm to its government’s restrictions on commerce and movement. Read Full Article at RT.com

Amazon’s decision to shift production of its billion-dollar ‘Lord of the Rings’ series from New Zealand to the UK sparked heated debate online about the real ‘Middle-earth’ – and even Frodo Baggins actor Elijah Wood weighed in. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s police watchdog has opened an investigation into the police force that returned a gun and a permit to the shooter who went on to kill five people and himself in Plymouth, southwest England. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Scottish government has kicked off a storm on social media after issuing “deeply disturbing” LGBT inclusivity guidelines that allow children as young as four to change their gender and name at school without parental consent. Read Full Article at RT.com

Internal conflicts in Afghanistan could lead to civil war and create a breeding ground for terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned, as a Taliban offensive closes in on Kabul. Read Full Article at RT.com

A number of people have been killed in a “serious firearms incident” in the British port city of Plymouth. Multiple first responder units, including air ambulances, were deployed to the scene and the public told to stay inside. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK will deploy around 600 troops to Afghanistan to help Britons and local translators flee the country. Amid the Taliban’s whirlwind advance, the US is also putting boots on the ground to assist with evacuations. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, confirmed on Thursday that the force is conducting a review into the allegations of sexual assault against Prince Andrew, declaring that “no one is above the law.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Protesters, including former opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, have demanded the release of Julian Assange outside London’s High Court as a preliminary hearing concerning a US appeal to extradite the WikiLeaks co-founder begins. Read Full Article at RT.com

The family of Harry Dunn, a British motorcyclist killed by an American woman with diplomatic immunity, says she may have been using her phone while driving. They are determined to unravel the case, their spokesman told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com

Scotland’s health secretary and his wife have started legal proceedings against a nursery school which they claim discriminated against their two-year-old daughter by not offering her a place at the academy. Read Full Article at RT.com

BBC studios at Television Centre in West London were targeted by an agitated group of protesters opposing the government’s Covid-19 plans. The crowd attempted to break into the building, causing clashes with police. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK government has defended buying pricey artwork by insisting it does so to promote British culture, after Labour MPs accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of being “selfish” amid upcoming cuts to benefits. Read Full Article at RT.com

Campaigners gathered in Westminster on Monday to protest the planned euthanasia of an alpaca named Geronimo after he twice tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, an infectious deadly disease. Read Full Article at RT.com

Slamming the US-Taliban peace deal as “rotten” and “flawed”, UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace has revealed that Britain tried to form a military coalition of “like-minded” allies to support Afghan forces after American troops left. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK digital news outlet Unilad was mocked this week for spotlighting a new and “innovative” clean energy technology that turned out to be a slightly more advanced version of the ancient water wheel. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK has extracted some 3,000 people it employed in Afghanistan, but the relocation program has come under fire as the situation deteriorates. Hundreds are set to have been left behind at the mercy of Islamist militants. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has come under fire for skipping self-isolation after returning from Paris and hanging out with Princess Anne instead. The government has said the official did not break any regulations. Read Full Article at RT.com

Downing Street will enlist TikTok stars to push teens to get vaccinated, even as critics note that the committee behind the decision to expand the inoculation drive has admitted it had sparse evidence for doing so. Read Full Article at RT.com

Many of Britain’s youngsters have shot down anti-vaxxers, sharing their readiness to get inoculated against Covid-19 after the government backed shots for teens and vaccine sceptics started the hashtag ‘leaveourkidsalone’. Read Full Article at RT.com

The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that all 16 and 17 year olds be included in the country’s vaccine rollout, with adolescents soon to be offered their first dose of Pfizer’s jab. Read Full Article at RT.com

Media sources have identified the senior UK official who mislaid classified defence papers – detailing sensitive Crimean coast operations – as Angus Lapsley. He was apparently being groomed as the country’s next envoy to NATO. Read Full Article at RT.com

England and Wales suffered a record high number of drug deaths in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, following in the footsteps of Scotland and the United States, which experienced a similar rise. Read Full Article at RT.com

A black Labour MP has reignited debate on race identity in the UK, complaining that the 2021 census did not give him or his family the ability to correctly define their ethnic group, asking why he couldn’t be “black English.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Sudesh Amman, the knife-wielding attacker who stabbed two people on Streatham High Road last year, was released from prison days before the assault, despite officials raising concerns about his “extremist views.” Read Full Article at RT.com

British MPs who sit on influential parliamentary groups while holding plum industry jobs are the subject of a conflict of interest inquiry by the House of Commons Standards Committee, which is probing backdoor lobbying. Read Full Article at RT.com

GB News has divided its viewers again after presenter Neil Oliver said his willingness to catch Covid-19 and pass it on to others was an expression of his desire for freedom, likening it to the Battle of Britain. Read Full Article at RT.com

Scotland’s health minister has reported a nursery school to watchdogs after claiming his daughter’s application was twice refused on the grounds that her name is Muslim. He says he is seeking legal advice. Read Full Article at RT.com

Anti-vaccine campaigner Piers Corbyn has been caught on camera by a pair of pranksters, accepting what he apparently understood was a bribe from AstraZeneca to shift his criticism from their vaccine to Pfizer and Moderna’s shots. Read Full Article at RT.com

The daughter of late fantasy author Terry Pratchett rushed to the writer’s defense after critics supposedly began attaching the artist to transphobic beliefs. Even Pratchett’s own Twitter handle sprang to life to refute the idea. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed the plan to let foreign guests at a major climate summit in autumn to forgo quarantine if they’ve been vaccinated with Chinese or Russian jabs, media claim. Read Full Article at RT.com

A church in Caldecote, Hertfordshire was heavily vandalised in an attack which saw its windows and decorations smashed – a mere ten days after it reopened following nine months of repairs. Read Full Article at RT.com

A debate has been sparked on the usefulness of learning Latin, after it was announced on Saturday that the government is to spend £4 million to expand the teaching of the ancient language to state secondary schools in England. Read Full Article at RT.com

A British government science panel has claimed that a coronavirus variant could emerge with a 35% fatality rate – akin to that seen in the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) – noting that vaccine booster doses may be needed. Read Full Article at RT.com