The UK needs to invest an additional £30bn a year in shovel-ready green projects to create jobs, energise the post-lockdown economy and put the country back on track to achieve its climate targets, a new cross-party commission recommends.

A 100-year-old Muslim man has raised more than £170,000 for coronavirus victims after being inspired by Colonel Sir Tom Moore. Dabirul Islam Choudhury is fundraising for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in both the UK and Bangladesh by walking laps of his community garden while fasting for the religious festival of Ramadan.

A woman has appeared in court charged with murder following the discovery of human remains in two suitcases. Gareeca Conita Gordon, 27, from Birmingham, appeared before Cheltenham magistrates court on Saturday accused of killing a woman between 14 April and 12 May 2020 at her home address.

Over 170 MPs and peers have urged the government to introduce a universal basic income to "give everyone the financial support they need to provide for themselves and their families" during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to chancellor Rishi Sunak the parliamentarians say that the plan to pay every adult a flat, unconditional sum of money each week for the duration of the crisis is a "practical, not ideological" proposal.

People are having to use videolinks to say their last goodbyes to dying relatives with Covid-19 because hospitals are curtailing visits to prevent spread of the virus. In a sad scene that is increasingly being played out out across the country, in the early hours of Tuesday morning a patient with coronavirus was taken off a ventilator at a hospital in south-east London.

People in the UK need to shift from cars to public transport to address the challenge of climate change, the government says. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: "Public transport and active travel will be the natural first choice for our daily activities.

OneWeb, the high-profile London-based satellite start-up, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US. The firm, which has been building a network to deliver broadband across the globe, blamed the Covid-19 crisis for its inability to secure new investment.

Cell towers in the U.K. are being torched after some online trolls peddled conspiracy theories that linked 5G communications technology to the coronavirus.

A beauty queen who was crowned Miss England in 2019 has returned to the United Kingdom from overseas charity work to continue her career as a doctor amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bhasha Mukherjee took a career break as a junior doctor after competing in the Miss World pageant in December 2019. Mukherjee represented England at the pageant after winning Miss England.

Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 with coronavirus, his agent has confirmed to the BBC. The entertainer, best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies, and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, died on Sunday. Goodies co-star Bill Oddie called him a "true visual comic and a great friend".

Connie Titchen, who is a 106-year-old great grandmother, may be the oldest person in the United Kingdom to beat coronavirus. Three weeks after testing positive for Covid-19, Titchen was discharged from Birmingham City Hospital in the UK.

Only 9% of Britons want life to return to "normal" after the coronavirus outbreak is over, a survey suggests. People have noticed significant changes during the lockdown, including cleaner air, more wildlife and stronger communities. More than half (54%) of 4,343 people who took part in the YouGov poll hope they will make some changes in their own lives and for the country as a whole to learn from the crisis.

Britain’s largest bird of prey has returned to the English skies for the first time in 240 years. White-tailed eagles, which have a wing span up to 2.5 metres, were once a common sight across southern England until the 18th century when they were wiped out by illegal killing. They were last recorded in England in 1780 at Culver Cliff on the Isle of Wight, before becoming extinct in the whole of the UK in 1918 when the final bird was shot on the Scottish Shetland Islands.

Due to booming population, siblings will no longer have the privilege of getting a priority in school places. It has been announced by the Wandsworth council in London that it will be removing the rule that gives an automatic place to the pupil’s brothers and sisters even if the family has moved out

UK based mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse announced that it is planning to launch its own mobile network. The retailer promised an increased contract flexibility and greater access to free data roaming with the best value 4G network in the UK market. The upcoming network by Carphone Warehouse will be called as iD …Share the joy         

Fake mobile towers that scoop up data from passing phones are routinely being used in London, an investigation by Sky News suggests.

The BBC's Paddy O'Connell says that migrants in France are so desperate to get to Britain that they are now trying to swim across the English Channel.

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Any attempts to repeal the Hunting Act would be "deeply unpopular" among the majority of the British public, a new poll has found. The Ipsos MORI poll commissioned by animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports found 84% of the public do not want a return to fox hunting. Opposition to hare hunting and deer hunting was even stronger, at 91% and 88% respectively.

Record collectors have flocked to a derelict Manchester shop where thousands of rare and antique records are being given away for free. Everything from Bob Marley LPs to Jimi Hendrix singles have been discovered within the haul of around 50,000 records in Newton Heath. Haulage collectors clearing out the store have been inundated with collectors and vinyl enthusiasts hoping to pick up something rare.