• Some within Whistleblowers UK want Britain to look more like America.

    ECONOMIST: Campaigning for a change in the law on whistleblowing

  • "The fact is, in a world that is ever more interconnected, to disconnect yourself, either Scotland from the UK or Britain from Europe, is just not sensible because many of the challenges we face are the challenges you are going to have to face together, you are going to have to get solutions together, " he said.

    BBC: Tony Blair

  • In Britain, the UK Independence Party, which wants Britain to leave the EU, won three seats at the last election to the European Parliament in 1999, and is expected to have gained seats this time (official results are due on Sunday).

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  • ICANN-sanctioned domains like .com or .uk (for Britain).

    ECONOMIST: No one controls the internet, but many are determined to try

  • None of these problems is unique to the UK. But Britain happens to be the first Western nation to host the Games since the credit crunch, so it is we who are also the first to be tested.

    CNN: Why Britain doesn't love the Olympics

  • The campaign is run by Energy UK on behalf of Britain's six major gas and electricity companies, in partnership with the Dominic Rodgers Trust.

    BBC: Carbon monoxide alarms in new NI homes now compulsory

  • Lord McNally, the UK minister responsible for Britain's Crown Dependencies, said he hoped the decision would be revisited when he was in the island last month.

    BBC: Sark civil servant post to be discussed again

  • Muriel said that in the face of Northern Alliance opposition to British troops and what is being seen as limited U.S. support for UK ground forces, Britain appeared to be back-tracking on sending its forces.

    CNN: UK troops set to be stood down

  • Others will accuse of him of leaving Britain's future in Europe open to question - and that could unsettle potential investors in the UK. Some will say that Britain faces years of argument and debate before the issue is settled.

    BBC: Cameron's hardest speech

  • The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU, said it was "obvious" the UK's existing arrangements inside the EU were not working but that Mr Cameron was not proposing an alternative.

    BBC: Tory MPs seeking Labour dialogue over 'EU overhaul'

  • John Collard, nurse consultant and clinical director of Allergy UK, said people in Britain were also going overboard in their reaction to allergies.

    BBC: peanuts

  • Thousands of overseas students may have been allowed to stay in Britain illegally because UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff failed to check out tip-offs about them, a report has revealed.

    BBC: Student visas: UKBA 'failed to check' tip-offs

  • In Britain, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) drew Eurosceptic voters from the main opposition Conservative Party to take 17% of the vote, entitling it to 12 seats in the parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Unhappy voters send a message | The

  • In accounts filed with Companies House, Stemcor revealed that despite generating about one third of its revenues in Britain, its UK tax contribution made up only 2.7pc of the tax the company paid globally.

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  • The figures come on the same day the Chief Inspector of Borders John Vine warned that thousands of overseas students may have been allowed to stay in Britain illegally because UK Border Agency staff failed to check out tip-offs about them - a backlog of 153, 000 had built up at one point, he said.

    BBC: Annual net migration to UK falls below 200,000

  • The torch for the London Olympics toured the UK extensively but was brought to Britain straight from Athens.

    BBC: Scotland

  • And the burners are just about to be ignited under that debate in Britain, as the UK government prepares a new strategy on gas.

    BBC: Energy bills, and loose change

  • Germany and France have warned UK Prime Minister David Cameron that Britain cannot pick and choose EU membership terms after he pledged a referendum.

    BBC: EU leaders warn Cameron over membership referendum

  • Dominic MacAskill, head of local government for Unison in Wales, said councils should oppose public spending cuts imposed by the UK government and "challenge austerity Britain".

    BBC: Local council budgets squeezed 'until at least 2020-21'

  • These are the two best known and longest running monthly snapshots of the UK property market, provided by Britain's two biggest mortgage lenders, the Nationwide and Halifax.

    BBC: House price surveys explained

  • Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU, said Mr Cameron should "make his mind up" about how to deal with the eurozone crisis.

    BBC: Eurozone crisis: Cameron and Merkel stress unity

  • The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that Britain will be writing to the US, on behalf the EU, to clarify the reports of secret prisons, which were reportedly set up after the 11 September 2001 attacks.

    BBC: EU warned on 'secret CIA jails'

  • It will only underline the key political question for Britain: does the UK want to stay in the EU but in the outer circle, does it want to free itself from the EU's embrace or will it select to join a more integrated Europe?

    BBC: Why Cameron is backing closer European integration

  • And although both Spain and France have smaller deficits than the UK, they will have to borrow comparable amounts to the UK in total - more than Britain in the case of France (according to Bloomberg data) - because so much of Spain's and France's debt is short-term, and needs repaying next year.

    BBC: Why investors love lending to the UK government

  • Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain during her time as UK prime minister, a Chester Conservative MP has said.

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher death: Merseyside reaction

  • The tiny Channel Island of Sark has a unique constitutional position: part of Britain, but not the UK, it is still held as a fief on behalf of the Queen.

    BBC: Sark Islanders fear takeover

  • The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU and came second to the Conservatives at this year's European elections, is hoping to win votes off the party at the next election.

    BBC: Cameron denies Tory EU 'turmoil'

  • It is designed to stop jobs leaving UK shores for places like Canada after Britain has slipped from the third biggest games maker to sixth and the number of people working in the industry has fallen by 10 percent.

    BBC: Tax breaks for creatives a 'growth measure'

  • The UK Commission for Employment and Skills says Britain's ageing population means we can expect to see a huge rise in the number of people working in the care industry in the future, and that the retail, catering and financial industries are also likely to pick up again, employing more people.

    BBC: Newsbeat - The P Word - Teen jobs hit hardest by slump

  • The new legislation being prepared in Britain will convince people that the UK is no longer a "soft touch".

    BBC: Analysis: What next for Sangatte?

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