British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday the European Union must come up with an alternative to her Brexit proposals, noting that talks had reached an impasse after bloc leaders had rejected her plans without explaining why. "It's not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and counter proposals," May said in a televised statement.

The UK government is considering "all options", including a regulator, as part of new legislation governing the internet. It has previously said it will publish a White Paper in the coming months, laying out its proposals. According to Buzzfeed News, the White Paper will propose a regulatory body similar to Ofcom, which regulates broadcasters and telecoms companies. The government told the BBC it would publish the White Paper this winter. But a spokesman for the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said it had nothing to share at this time.

A majority of Britons would now consider voting for a new centre-ground political movement amid soaring dismay at the state of the main parties, an exclusive poll has revealed. The exclusive research for The Independent found the number of those ready to back a new party has leapt in just four months after a summer in which Labour’s antisemitism crisis raged and the Tories tore themselves apart over Brexit.

Britain's native bee species face being “wiped out” by a "highly aggressive" Asian hornet, conservationists have warned after the invasive insect was spotted in two locations at opposite ends of the country. The honey bee-killing Asian hornet, which is believed to have first arrived in Europe on crates imported from China to France in 2004, has been confirmed at locations in Liskeard, Cornwall and Hull. The creature, which is smaller than the UK's native hornet, poses no greater risk to humans than the humble wasp, but feasts on honey bees and is capable of killing around 50 a day.

Britain is one of the most heavily surveilled nations on Earth. And then there are the 'super recognisers'. This is how they found their men.

The unusually hot summer of 2018 has proved challenging for farmers across the UK. Among other things, the scorching weather and lack of rain has damaged crops, and the grass used to feed farm animals too. Unfortunately the unusual may become more usual as the effects of climate change are felt more frequently across the world. The high ambient temperatures and humidity seen this year, as well as extreme weather conditions such as flooding, are a significant challenge to the future of farming.

The dig site found by metal detectorists 3 years ago appears to be a high-status homestead that once had two villas

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Theresa May has come under fire for claiming to have secured the UK’s first post-Brexit trade deal as it is merely a “rollover” of an existing EU agreement. Critics said the announcement – to replicate a deal with six southern African nations – fell far short of boasts, before the referendum, of a new free trade area much larger than the EU. They also pointed out that it came amid doubts about whether the UK will be able to retain deals the EU has struck recently with Canada and Japan – which are far bigger economies.

People with signs of the disease are failing to act, with many worrying they will waste a doctor’s time, a new survey reveals. Despite discovering a potential symptom of cancer, half the UK population would not seek medical help with many too afraid that they may be wasting a doctor’s time by raising it. In addition, one in four people would not bother having a symptom examined for fear of what the doctor might find, according to a new survey by Populus.

The poisonings are under investigation.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned there may be “no Brexit at all” because of lawmakers’ attempts to undermine her plan to leave the European Union. “My message to the country this weekend is simple: we need to keep our eyes on the prize,” May wrote in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. “If we don’t, we risk ending up with no Brexit at all.”

Will journalists, due to hatred of Assange, unite behind the Trump DOJ in support of one of the gravest threats to press freedom in years?

Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll.

The Home Office uses similar tactics to those of the Trump administration – with devastating effects for parents and children

More than one in four households have no emergency savings pot, a survey has suggested. Some 27 per cent of people in the UK said that, excluding pensions and insurance policies, they have no savings they can quickly access if needed. The UK figures are slightly higher than the European average at 26 per cent, according to the ING International Survey of 15 countries.

The UK appears to have officially lost its coveted spot on the list of the world’s five largest economies. During Wednesday’s Budget, Philip Hammond, in a series of statements aimed at highlighting the strength and health of the British economy, admitted that the country has slipped to sixth spot, trailing France. The other four countries that make up the leaderboard are the US, China, Japan and Germany.

The figure for the pro-democracy killings in Beijing in 1989 comes from newly-released UK cables.

People should not expect pay rises above inflation this year as the stagnation in wages is set to continue until the end of 2018, according to a leading thinktank. The pay squeeze is likely to get worse before it gets better, with no meaningful recovery in wage packets before the end of next year, the Resolution Foundation found. Real wage growth is expected to be zero over the course of 2018 as a whole, meaning the pressure on living standards is set to continue.

England’s entire landscape will be mapped with lasers to tackle flooding, help conservation work and even track illegal waste dumps, the Environment Agency said. Under plans unveiled by the government agency, aircraft equipped with laser scanners will map all 130,000 sq km of the country in 3D, including rivers, fields and national parks, by 2020.

A major UK housebuilder will prefabricate up to a quarter of its homes in a factory, in the latest attempt by the construction industry to tackle the country’s housing shortage. Berkeley Homes, which builds 4,000 homes a year, is planning to create a facility in Kent this year where builders will work to produce up to 1,000 houses and flats annually, which will then be craned on to sites.

Theresa May is to declare war on the UK's "throwaway culture" by demanding the 5p levy on plastic bags is extended from supermarkets and other major stores to all shops. The Prime Minister is also being urged to back demands from a committee of MPs earlier this week for a 25p "latte levy" on throwaway plastic coffee cups.

The plan is for 50 million new trees to repopulate one of the least wooded parts of the country—and offer a natural escape from several cities in the north.

Nigel Farage has said that he thinks there should be a second referendum on Brexit. The revelations came on UK Channel 5 TV show, 'The Wright Stuff'. "What is for certain that the Cleggs, the Blairs, the Adonis' will never give up ... I'm reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on EU membership."

Ever since China announced last year that it no longer wanted to be the “world’s garbage dump,” recycling about half of the globe’s plastics and paper products, Western nations have been puzzling over what to do when the ban went into effect, which it did on Jan. 1. The answer, to date, in Britain at least, is nothing. At least one waste disposal site in London is already seeing a buildup of plastic recyclables and has had to pay to have some of it removed.

The plan is for 50 million new trees to repopulate one of the least wooded parts of the country—and offer a natural escape from several cities in the north.

Donald Trump has given a wide-ranging interview to Piers Morgan for ITV. In it the US president claimed he was popular in the UK despite calls for protests if he takes up Theresa May’s invite for a state visit; said he did not know if he had been invited to Prince Harry’s wedding; said women voters liked his strong support for the military and defended his fondness for junk food.

An ageing population means more men are developing and dying from prostate cancer.

UK prosecutors tried to dissuade Swedish counterparts from doing so, exchange shows

An American tourist assaulted two armed police officers outside Buckingham Palace after asking them if they knew any jokes, a court has heard. Ryan Robinson, 36, of Hawaii, punched Ben Collins in the face at least four times and tried to grab his Taser electrical weapon on Wednesday evening. When Simon Leckie tried to intervene, shouting “armed police, stand still” and pointing his weapon at Robinson, he knocked him to the ground.

Eighteenth-century Indian arms were as sophisticated as European. Then came the British Empire to drive industry backwards

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UK millennials are on track to be the most overweight generation since records began, health experts say. Based on population trends, more than seven in every 10 people born between the early 1980s and mid-90s will be too fat by the time they reach middle age. In comparison, about half of the "baby boomer" generation, born just after World War Two, were fat at that age. Being fat as an adult is linked to 13 different types of cancer, says Cancer Research UK, who did the analysis.

Created by accident in 1869, the Kendal mint cake has played an outsized role in mountaineering history – including fuelling the first ascent of Mt Everest.

The first polar bear cub to be born in the UK for 25 years has emerged at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig. Previously, the birth had only been confirmed by high-pitched noises heard from the maternity den. The cub was born in the week before Christmas, after its mother Victoria mated with Arktos, one of two male polar bears at the park. Victoria's enclosure has been closed to the public.