September 3, 2021 Joan Washington, Richard E. Grant's wife and voice coach to the stars, dead She was one of Britain’s leading voice and dialect coaches and worked with stars like Anne Hathaway, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Stone and Jessica Chastain.
September 1, 2021 Woman loses 140 pounds during COVID-19 lockdowns: ‘I’m full of life now’ Sarah Armstrong, 45, from Lockerbie, Scotland, weighed more than 300 pounds last March.
August 31, 2021 Stingray photobombs baby's picture with matching expression A stingray in an aquarium made a mom “burst out laughing” when it photobombed a picture of her baby and both the baby and the stingray had the same expression.
August 31, 2021 Former British soldier plans Afghan escape with 400 evacuees in tow A former British soldier has plotted an escape from Afghanistan with hundreds of refugees in tow, according to reports.
August 31, 2021 Hot 'Scot' Wheels: Dad spent lockdown year Instagramming photos of son's toy cars in real world settings Ross Burns spent the past year posting photos of his son's toy cars on Instagram to get him out of the house during lockdown.
August 30, 2021 Delta COVID-19 variant doubles risk of hospitalization among unvaccinated: study A new British study found that the COVID-19 delta variant doubles the risk of hospitalization for unvaccinated individuals.
August 29, 2021 British government to ban single-use plastic utensils The British government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic utensils in England as part of a wide-ranging Environmental Bill that aims to tackle plastic pollution.
August 27, 2021 Afghanistan security lapse: Documents identifying staff left behind at UK embassy in Kabul, report says The U.K.'s defense chief promised Friday to “get to the bottom of” a security lapse that saw documents identifying Afghan staff members and job applicants left behind at the abandoned British Embassy in Kabul.
August 26, 2021 US, others issue security alert at Kabul airport The foreign minister of the Netherlands says the last Dutch diplomats and troops have flown out of Kabul as the international airlift winds down and that her thoughts are now with the people left stranded in the Afghan capital.
August 25, 2021 Fire damages self-described 'birthplace' of Harry Potter A cafe in Scotland's capital where author J.K. Rowling wrote some of the Harry Potter books has been damaged in a fire.