Browsing: UK News briefing

Team GB has bagged a gold medal in team eventing at the Tokyo Olympics for the first time in almost 50 years. 

Rishi Sunak has hinted at delays to the budget after he failed to announce a date when publishing the new forecasts, as is normally expected. 

Steven Bouquet, 54, has been jailed for more than five years for stabbing 16 cats in a series of night-time attacks. 

The latest estimates show infection rates have continued to rise across most of the UK, with rates only dropping in Scotland. 

There has been a sharp fall in the number of people on furlough, with young people moving off the government scheme fastest, new figures show. 

Mallory Franklin has won the silver medal in the women’s single slalom and Matt Coward-Holley picked up shooting bronze in the men’s trap final.

A record 689,313 alerts were sent to users of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales in a week, NHS figures show.

Dominic Raab has said university students will get an “advance warning” if they are required to have vaccines before moving to halls of residence. 

The government has announced the UK will give Kenya 817,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. 

Former football star Wayne Rooney’s complaint of blackmail has been dropped by the police. 

More than 60 people have been reduced after towns around the popular tourist spot Lake Como were hit with mudslides and floods. 

A horror crash in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has killed at least 18 people after a truck crashed into a bus. 

Wayne Rooney’s complaint of blackmail is being reviewed by police. 

The United States has confirmed US travel restrictions will not be lifted due to the growing threat of the highly contagious Delta variant. 

Team GB’s Georgia Taylor-Brown has won an Olympic silver medal in the women’s triathlon

American musician Britney Spears has officially requested her father Jamie Spears to be replaced as her conservator

For the first time in the UK, contraceptive pills can be bought over the counter in pharmacies without the need for a prescription. 

The UK’s largest airport Heathrow has wanted that it was falling behind its European rivals because of Covid restrictions on international travel. 

Two hospitals in London are asking patients to stay away after their emergency departments were flooded on Sunday. 

Diver Tom Daley has finally won gold alongside Matty Lee, as Adam Peaty and Tom Pidock were also crowned Olympic champions on day three

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning, with heavy rain and thunderstorms potentially leading to some disruption and flooding this evening. 

Kanye West held an album launch party in Atlanta for his 10th studio album – DONDA. The sold-out listening party was held at the Mercedes Benz Arena for the album named after his late mother. 

Six people have been taken to hospital after a car slammed into a crowd outside a pub in South Wales, it is believed the 79-year-old driver was suffering a medical episode when he crashed

Tottenham says they have no plans to sell Harry Kane this summer, despite rumours a record-breaking £160 million move is close. 

Nine people have been arrested in Peru after accusations they have been charging Covid-19 patients the equivalent of more than £15k for hospital beds