Updated 21 October 2026. Pension Credit tops up income for people who have reached state pension age and have a low income. Who is eligible for Pension Credit? You must have reached state pension age, live in England, Scotland or Wales, and have a weekly income below the Guarantee Credit level. In 2026/27 that level … Read more
Updated 21 October 2026. The state pension age is rising from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028. Your exact date depends on your date of birth. What is the state pension age? It is the earliest age at which you can claim the UK state pension. It is currently 66 for people born before … Read more
Updated 21 October 2026. The full new state pension is on course to exceed £13,000 a year from April 2027 under the triple lock. Why is the new state pension over £13,000? Because the triple lock will raise it by 3.9% in April 2027, in line with average earnings growth. That takes the full new … Read more
Updated 19 October 2026. On 17 October, roughly 550,000 people marched across France. In several cities the day ended in riots. Why are the French protesting? Because students, unions and remnants of the Yellow Vest movement marched on the same day against high living costs, rundown schools and a government they say is not listening. … Read more
On Tuesday 22 September 2026, at United Nations headquarters in New York, three leaders signed a document that closed nearly two years of transatlantic tension. President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen put their names to a trilateral security agreement covering the world’s largest island. Four days earlier, … Read more
A US military transport plane touched down in Moscow on August 25, 2026, carrying someone American officials didn’t want the public to know about in advance: CIA Director John Ratcliffe. Why did the CIA director visit Moscow now, why didn’t he meet Putin, and why does the trip echo a warning visit from four years … Read more
Updated August 26, 2026: At least ten water companies now have active hosepipe bans, and roughly 29 million people across England currently have some form of restriction on their water use, according to the Environment Agency’s most recent weekly drought report. Bristol Water is the newest, starting August 27. Full list below. Not every UK … Read more
Bristol Water is banning hosepipes for the first time in over 50 years. The ban takes effect at 00:01 on Thursday, August 27, 2026, and will affect more than 1.2 million customers across the region, according to ITV News West Country. Here’s why it happened, who’s exempt, and what you can and can’t do with … Read more
On Thursday, 20 August 2026, two hours into a nine-hour flight from Frankfurt to Chicago, at 33,000 feet over Scottish airspace, the crew of Lufthansa flight LH430 made a sharp U-turn. Moments later, air traffic control screens across the region lit up with a four-digit code: 7700. The Boeing 747-8, carrying 358 passengers, was declaring … Read more
The UK’s emergency alert reached millions of phones across England and Wales at 7:01pm on Friday 14 August 2026, triggering a loud, siren-like alarm as the same message landed on lock screens within seconds of each other — a warning about wildfires, issued on a scale the system had never been used at before. Why … Read more