In the UK, it is illegal to purchase alcohol under the age of 18, but many shops operate a Challenge 25 policy. 

The UN  has criticised Priti Patel’s proposals regarding asylum seekers as so damaging they risked Britain’s ‘global credibility’. 

National Statistics data  indicates that more than 40,000 'excess deaths' were recorded in private homes in England and Wales in 2020 - but only 8% (3,221) were down to Covid as official data reveals the total number of fatalities was 14% higher...

A coronavirus strain first detected in India has been classed as a “variant of concern” by health officials.

Over £110,000 has been raised by the British Indian Jewish Association (BIJA)’s fund-raising efforts to support the response to Covid in India. This has been raised in 3 days from over 130 donors, with Natalie Machta-Joseph leading on the campaign. 

Reports suggest that students in Nottingham, Manchester and Durham were England's worst-hit areas in the Covid second wave with up to one in five people getting infected between September and April.

Neil Basu, the most senior counter terrorism officer, will become the first ethnic minority Met commissioner if he succeeds Dame Cressida Dick. Basu, the most senior officer of Asian heritage is the son of an Indian doctor and white Welsh nurse.

The fire at the 19-storey building was brought under control around lunchtime,  following a mass evacuation over fears the structure could collapse.