Gary Gibbon
Can Britain still slam the brakes on Brexit?
Could Article 50 be revoked unilaterally by the UK government without having to ask for the EU’s permission?
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Britain accuses China of cyber-espionage
Britain has accused China of carrying out a “widespread and significant” campaign of industrial espionage around the world – through cyber warfare. The Foreign Office, acting in co-ordination with the United States, said hackers acting on behalf of China had targeted intellectual property and valuable trade secrets, and that efforts were ‘almost certainly’ continuing.
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EU political leaders sign off on Britain’s Withdrawal Agreement
Theresa May has got agreement on Brexit from her 27 EU counterparts – who signed off the deal she negotiated in 38 minutes this morning.
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Brand Brexit Britain: How to sell the UK after the EU
We’ve been to talk to some of the top advertising gurus in the country to ask how they’d sell Britain to the world after the political crisis has finally passed.
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Portraits in the sand: artwork honours The Fallen on Britain’s beaches
On beaches throughout the British Isles people have come together to mark the centenary of the Armistice.
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Psycho-active drug abuse ‘completely out of control’ in Britain’s prisons
The abuse of psycho-active drugs in prisons across England and Wales is “completely out of control”, according to the prisons watchdog. In her annual report, Elizabeth Moody warned that jails were struggling to cope with the consequences – including “all too often, death”. She said there was an urgent need for a national strategy to…
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Toynbee Hall renovation: the fight against Britain’s poverty
At the forefront of the battle against poverty for more than a century: Toynbee Hall in London’s East End has helped to pioneer social reform. And with a recent report finding more than one in ten people in the UK live in persistent poverty – its work has never been more crucial. The Victorian building…
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Celebrating the Mangrove: The London restaurant which defined Caribbean Britain
Fifty years after the Mangrove restaurant opened in west London’s Notting Hill, there’s been a mini carnival to celebrate a place which defined a part of Britain’s multi-cultural history.
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Operation Yellowhammer: Britain’s ‘no deal’ Brexit plan
A snatched image of official papers shows that the government has a code name for it’s no-deal Brexit planning: Operation Yellowhammer. The revealing snap was taken as Minister left Downing Street. The revelation came as the government announced a pilot scheme for non-EU seasonal migrants to pick fruit & vegetables after Brexit.
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Farewell my love: A letter from Barbados to Britain
As I sit on the 14:30 train from King’s Cross to York for what is my last train ride across England, in pursuit of trade links with Scarborough, there is a certain ambivalence to my taking leave of the UK at the end of August after what has been a rewarding four years as High…
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Neil Kenlock: the political struggles of Britain’s black community
Neil Kenlock co-founded the UK’s first legal radio station devoted to black music and spent decades capturing images of the black British experience. Now an exhibition of his work has opened in Brixton, south London. It’s a unique insight into two formative decades, from the struggle against racism and the British Black Panther movement, to the pioneers…
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Homeless Britain: Another death on the streets
In December, we met Jayne Simpson in Stafford – where a local charity was trying to help rough sleepers through the harsh winter. Despite their best efforts, she was found dead in a doorway in the town centre several months later.
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Interview with Jackie Sebire about violent crime in Britain
Jackie Sebire is the National Police Chiefs’ Council national lead on serious violent crime and she joins us now from Bedfordshire Police Headquarters.
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Donald Trump in Britain: President lands as protests begin
Mr Trump described the UK as “a pretty hot spot right now with a lot of resignations.” But despite all the mass protests planned for his visit he declared “people like me there.” We analyse his visit, trade, the special relationship and witness the pomp and ceremony.
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Britain on heatwave alert
Slap on the sunscreen, it’s officially the hottest day of the year so far. The Met Office has recorded a temperature of 30.6 Celsius in Porthmadog in Wales, while the heat has caused fires to spread across moorland in the north-west of England. Britain has been put on heatwave alert, with health advisers issuing warnings…
