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Anti-vaccination campaign blamed for massive measles outbreak in Wales
Public health officials said Friday they were investigating the first suspected death from measles in Britain in five years, after an outbreak blamed on a campaign against vaccinations. More than 800 people have contracted the highly contagious disease in Wales in the past six weeks, centred around the southern city…
Margaret Thatcher polarizes opinion even in death
Thousands lined the route of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession on Wednesday to pay their respects to a prime minister who had a profound impact on Britain, but others turned their backs on her coffin in bitter protest. The woman who ruled Britain for 11 years has aroused strong passions even…
Researchers argue Britain now has seven distinct classes –including ‘new affluent workers’ and ‘precariats’
A new survey of 166,000 Britons found that instead of the three traditional classes – upper, middle, and working – that are prominent in shows like ‘Downton Abbey,’ shown at left, now there are seven distinct strata.(PBS/AP) Britain’s infamous class system has become… …
‘Catastrophic’ 2012 rain means Britain’s butterfly populations drop
Britain’s butterflies suffered a “catastrophic” year in 2012 with almost all species declining as a result of torrential rains, according to a study published on Tuesday. Of the 56 species studied by the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, 52 saw a drop in numbers as Britain’s second-wettest year on record left…
Horse-wary Britons spurning ready-meals, all meat
A poll out Sunday found that almost a third of adults in Britain have stopped eating ready-meals as a result of the horsemeat scandal, while seven percent have stopped eating meat altogether. The ComRes survey, for the Sunday Mirror and The Independent on Sunday newspapers, found that 31 percent have…
Horsemeat lasagna in Britain sparks European food scare
Britain’s horsemeat lasagne food scare spread to several other European countries on Friday as officials said they suspected criminal activity was behind the growing scandal. Swedish food giant Findus withdrew various frozen meals from France and Sweden, a day after withdrawing frozen beef lasagne from sale in Britain that was…
British PM Cameron denies ‘blackmailing’ EU members
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday denied trying to “blackmail” his European partners by threatening to pull out of the EU if he did not get his way on repatriating powers. Ahead of a long-awaited speech next week in which he is expected to propose a referendum after 2015…
Germany warns Britain against ‘blackmailing’ EU
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Britain in a Sunday newspaper interview against “blackmailing” its EU partners in a bid to bring powers back home from Brussels. “We want to keep Britain in the EU and not force it out,” Schaeuble told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. “But I will also…
Britain’s PM David Cameron ‘humiliated’ by EU budget defeat
Prime Minister David Cameron was battling to reclaim authority on Thursday, after Conservative party rebels delivered his first major parliamentary defeat by defying him over the EU budget. MPs passed a motion late Wednesday urging Cameron to insist on a real-terms cut in the European Union’s trillion-euro 2014-2020 budget at…
Report: Unemployment dropped in Britain
The number of unemployed people in Britain fell by 7,000 to 2.59 million in the quarter to July compared with the three months to April, official data showed on Wednesday. Britain’s unemployment rate was stable at 8.1 percent, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. The rate and…
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