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Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A thinktank with links to Reform UK has proposed abolishing the United Kingdom’s state pension as part of a wide-ranging programme of tax and economic reforms that would reduce taxes by an estimated £75 billion. The proposals are contained in a 183-page report titled “Boosting Britain”, produced by the Centre for a Better Britain, or CFABB. The report...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A far-right activist has been accused of using a blade to slash an inflatable dinghy in the English Channel while a rescue worker was still onboard, prompting condemnation from refugee organisations and a police investigation into the incident. Daniel Thomas, who is also known publicly as Danny Tommo, filmed himself approaching a small inflatable boat carrying asylum seekers...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Jamaica has welcomed King Charles’s decision to refer a landmark petition concerning slavery and reparations to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, describing the move as a significant development in the country’s long-running effort to seek legal clarification over Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and its enduring consequences. Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange announced the...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK government is preparing to establish a new national agency dedicated to countering foreign disinformation, deepfakes and other forms of information warfare, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham warning that hostile states are increasingly exploiting digital platforms and social divisions to influence public opinion. Burnham announced the planned National Centre for Information Defence during his address to the...

Published: 22 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has declined to rule out the possibility that reversing Brexit could feature in Labour’s manifesto at the next general election, while making clear that his immediate focus remains on strengthening the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. Burnham made the comments as he travelled to New York for the United Nations General Assembly,...

Published: 22 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK government borrowed £18.3bn in August, significantly more than economists and the government’s independent fiscal watchdog had expected, adding to the financial pressure facing Chancellor John Healey ahead of next month’s budget. Official figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed that public sector net borrowing in August was £2.9bn higher than during the same month...

Published: 22 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Nearly four million records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have become searchable online, creating a new opportunity for descendants of enslaved communities to investigate family histories that have remained difficult to trace for generations. The collection contains about 300,000 pages of historical records covering enslaved people in former British colonial territories between...

Published: 22 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. British mothers who return to the United Kingdom with their children after fleeing domestic abuse overseas could receive greater legal protection under a government review of international child abduction cases. The Ministry of Justice is examining how allegations of domestic abuse are handled in cases brought under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child...

Published: 22 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A British father is due to appear before a court in Cyprus on Tuesday, accused of causing the death of his two-year-old son after the child fell from a fourth-floor window during a family holiday near Paphos in July. The 37-year-old man, who has not been publicly named, is facing a charge alleging that his actions were negligent,...

Published: 21 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Air passengers across parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland faced disruption on Monday after a technical fault affected air traffic control operations at Prestwick in Scotland. Airlines including British Airways and easyJet cancelled or delayed services as engineers investigated the problem. The disruption is the second significant technical issue to affect National Air Traffic Services, known...