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All mobile phones across the United Kingdom (UK) will get a siren-like alert next month as the government tests a new public warning system. According to an official statement on Sunday (March 19), the “Emergency Alerts service is launched and is in operation from today, and the UK-wide alerts test will …

Official figures indicated that between the months of June and December last year, the number of lost days was recorded at 2,471,000, the highest since 1989. Royal Mail workers protest as members strike over pay and conditions, in London. Credit: Reuters British media reported on Tuesday that the UK registered …

Emma Corrin has described their West End production of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando as a “celebration of queer joy”. The actor, who played Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown, is currently starring as the titular character at the Garrick Theatre, directed by Michael Grandage. Corrin, who identifies as non-binary …

A week after the U.K.’s Royal Mail experienced a “cyber incident,” the company says it is still experiencing “severe service disruption” to its outgoing international postal operations, with no clear end in sight. Why it matters: The problems have prevented a large portion of mail from leaving the U.K., leaving …

Express News Service One was given to understand that strikes and industrial action, especially in the womb of the Industrial Revolution, were passe and belonged to another era. Reformed Capitalism, it has been subtly preached, has a way of adjusting pressure points like wages not keeping pace with inflation. The …

Britons are preparing for a holiday season of delayed packages, cancelled trains, and medical shortages, as hundreds of thousands of workers plan to walk off the job amid a nationwide cost of living crisis. Union members from rail networks, buses, the postal service, the health sector, and border patrol are …

London CNN Business  —  Britain is bracing for further disruption from strikes heading into the Christmas period, as ambulance drivers and nurses join rail operators and postal workers in the worst wave of walkouts the country has endured for at least a decade. More than 20,000 ambulance workers, including paramedics …

LONDON – Cleaners will become the latest set of transport workers to strike over pay in Britain, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union said on Saturday, adding to a wave of industrial action sweeping the country. The RMT said its members, working as cleaners throughout the transport network, had voted …

London CNN Business  —  Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is already taking the shine off Black Friday. Now, the annual shopping bonanza faces an additional threat from strikes that could disrupt deliveries, subdue online sales and deliver another blow to the slumping economy. Some 235,000 workers have gone on strike across the …

London, United Kingdom: The UK’s recent austerity budget may avert a deeper recession, but the government must focus more on growth to improve the country’s long-term prospects, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will say Monday. The business lobby group’s director general, Tony Danker, will tell its annual conference that the government …