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Time wasted in traffic jams is estimated to have cost Brits £37.7 billion – or £1,168 per driver – in lost productivity, wasted fuel and time, according to a study. Analysis by Inrix also ranked UK roads as the 10th most congested in the world last year, with drivers spending an ...

LONDON: British doctors and nurses have hit back at Donald Trump after he said the NHS is “not working”. In a tweet, the US president said the health service in the UK is “going broke”, sparking angry responses from the British government and opposition politicians. But much of the ire ...

LONDON: British judges on Monday rejected a US request for the extradition of a man accused of hacking into thousands of US government computers in a ruling that could set a precedent for similar pending cases. Lauri Love, 33, faces charges in the United States for allegedly hacking into the ...

LONDON: Lloyds bank has stopped credit card customers from buying bitcoin, amid concerns of a credit risk surrounding the cryptocurrency’s rapidly falling value. Coming into effect today, the ban applies to Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and MBNA. The currency has grown exponentially in the last year, peaking at ...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has mischaracterized protests over health care funding in Britain to attack Democrats for “pushing for Universal HealthCare. ” In an early morning tweet, Mr. Trump claimed the British system was “not working,” however in spite of huge financial strain – which many say has been ...

HAMPSHIRE: Two British brothers are among five men charged with importing cocaine after £50m worth of the drug was found on a private jet. Martin and Stephen Neil, from Poole in Dorset, are jointly charged with bringing the Class A drug into the UK. Half a ton of the substance ...

U.K. lenders approved the fewest mortgages in almost three years in December as a Bank of England interest-rate increase added to the headwinds facing the housing market. The number of approvals fell to 61,039, down from the 64,712 in November and the lowest since January 2015, the U.K. central bank said ...

LONDON: Amazon UK said on Monday it would open a new fulfillment center in Rugby, central England, increasing its 2,500-strong workforce in the Midlands by another 400 people. Rugby will be the fourth Amazon fulfillment center in the region, and joins centers in Coalville and Daventry, which opened in 2016, ...

LONDON: Britain’s economy has the potential to start catching up with the rest of the world as the outcome of the Brexit negotiations becomes clearer, the governor of the Bank of England has said. Mark Carney said there was the prospect of a “conscious recoupling” after seeing the international economy ...

LONDON: Detectives have released an image of a man being sought over a car crash that killed three teenage boys in Hayes, West London. Harry Rice, George Wilkinson and Josh Kennedy were killed as they walked to a friend’s birthday party on Saturday evening. A 28-year-old man was arrested on ...