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Extend Child Benefit for your teen by 31 August

Extend Child Benefit for your teen by 31 August

20 August 2024 - 09:31 Press Release

HM Revenue & Customs

Child Benefit can be claimed for children after they turn 16 if they are staying on in approved education or training. ...

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Chearsley Wetland – a thriving new habitat
on River Thame

Chearsley Wetland – a thriving new habitat on River Thame

20 August 2024 - 08:06 Press Release

Environment Agency

Partnership project transforms 17 hectares of floodplain grassland into complex wetland habitat at Manor Farm. Flourishi...

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Prime Minister and Welsh First Minister: Together we will “supercharge” mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower

Prime Minister and Welsh First Minister: Together we will “supercharge” mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower

19 August 2024 - 23:02 Press Release

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

The Prime Minister and Welsh First Minister will supercharge efforts to make Britain a clean energy superpower today, by...

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Make Noise For Ukraine on Ukrainian Independence Day

Make Noise For Ukraine on Ukrainian Independence Day

19 August 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Ministry of Defence

The UK Government and our partners in NATO are leading an international campaign to Make Noise For Ukraine on Ukrainian ...

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Pension Credit awareness drive as thousands of eligible pensioners yet to claim

Pension Credit awareness drive as thousands of eligible pensioners yet to claim

19 August 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners urged to check if they could be eligible for Pension Credit to secure the Winter Fuel Payment, worth up to £3...

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Libya’s leaders must protect their people’s rights: UK statement at the UN Security Council

Libya’s leaders must protect their people’s rights: UK statement at the UN Security Council

19 August 2024 - 23:00 Speech

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting ...

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Change of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola: Bharat Joshi

Change of His Majesty’s Ambassador to Angola: Bharat Joshi

19 August 2024 - 23:00 Press Release

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mr Bharat Joshi has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Angola. ...

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MOD’s new approach to Single Living Accommodation pipeline

MOD’s new approach to Single Living Accommodation pipeline

19 August 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Defence Infrastructure Organisation

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has announced the appointment of 6 companies to build Single Living Accomm...

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Statement on behalf of the eighth Tata Steel / Port Talbot Transition Board

Statement on behalf of the eighth Tata Steel / Port Talbot Transition Board

19 August 2024 - 15:52 News Story

Wales Office

The Tata Steel / Port Talbot Transition Board met for the eighth time on 15 August 2024, the second under the new govern...

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CMR4 and CRM5 replacement service launch

CMR4 and CRM5 replacement service launch

19 August 2024 - 15:47 News Story

Legal Aid Agency

Apply for prior authority to incur disbursements and Apply for Extension of Upper Limit are the replacement services for...

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Places at Pace - September 2024

Places at Pace - September 2024

19 August 2024 - 15:35 News Story

Closed organisation: Office for Place

We are pleased to announce that the Office for Place will be hosting Places at Pace, our first online mini-conference, o...

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Prime Minister meets new First Minister in Cardiff for two day Welsh visit

Prime Minister meets new First Minister in Cardiff for two day Welsh visit

19 August 2024 - 14:47 Press Release

Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

The Prime Minister has arrived in Cardiff this afternoon for his first in-person meeting with First Minister Eluned Morg...

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First armed forces families collect keys to new homes at Imjin Barracks

First armed forces families collect keys to new homes at Imjin Barracks

19 August 2024 - 14:29 News Story

Defence Infrastructure Organisation

The first armed forces families move into their new homes at Imjin Barracks following the handover of the first wave of ...

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Warship and submarine readiness boost by small British businesses

Warship and submarine readiness boost by small British businesses

19 August 2024 - 13:20 Press Release

Ministry of Defence

Small British businesses are to benefit from a new warship and submarine agreement, Defence Minister Maria Eagle has ann...

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NDA invests £30million in cutting edge research and innovation

NDA invests £30million in cutting edge research and innovation

19 August 2024 - 09:00 News Story

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

NDA awards contracts totalling £30million to drive innovation and research into new nuclear decommissioning techniques....

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Process activated to manage prisoner movements

Process activated to manage prisoner movements

18 August 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Ministry of Justice

A temporary measure to manage pressures in prisons in the north of England has been reactivated, following longstanding ...

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Nationwide call to surrender all zombie-style knives and machetes

Nationwide call to surrender all zombie-style knives and machetes

18 August 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Home Office

A nationwide call to hand over zombie-style knives and machetes has been launched by the government, before these danger...

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It’s never too late for peace in the Middle East – we must break the cycle of violence: article by David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné

It’s never too late for peace in the Middle East – we must break the cycle of violence: article by David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné

17 August 2024 - 23:00 News Story

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

David Lammy and Stéphane Séjourné write for The Observer on how a ceasefire could enable progress towards a two-state so...

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UK Space Command successfully launches first military satellite?

UK Space Command successfully launches first military satellite?

17 August 2024 - 07:35 Press Release

Ministry of Defence

Cutting-edge new satellite launched by UK Space Command to provide crucial space-based intelligence, surveillance, and r...

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Compensation:  Mozambique and Somalia terror attacks

Compensation: Mozambique and Somalia terror attacks

16 August 2024 - 16:38 News Story

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

How to apply for compensation if you were a victim of recent terrorist attacks in either Mozambique or Mogadishu, Somali...

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Chemical spill in Walsall

Chemical spill in Walsall

16 August 2024 - 15:04 News Story

Environment Agency

The public have been asked to avoid an area of the Walsall canal in the West Midlands following a chemical spill ...

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Use Digital Apply service for all criminal legal aid applications

Use Digital Apply service for all criminal legal aid applications

16 August 2024 - 14:14 News Story

Legal Aid Agency

Applications for criminal legal aid must now be submitted via Apply for criminal legal aid. ...

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Win for witnesses as courts revamp waiting rooms

Win for witnesses as courts revamp waiting rooms

16 August 2024 - 13:27 Press Release

Ministry of Justice

Victims and witnesses of crime will benefit from improved waiting rooms in 10 court buildings across England and Wales....

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Hundreds more people continue appearing in court following violent disorder

Hundreds more people continue appearing in court following violent disorder

16 August 2024 - 13:21 Press Release

Ministry of Justice

Data released today (16 August 2024) confirms 460 people arrested in connection with the violent disorder earlier this m...

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Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing’s ‘Delilah’ project papers at risk of leaving the UK

Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing’s ‘Delilah’ project papers at risk of leaving the UK

16 August 2024 - 13:00 Press Release

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

A temporary export bar has been placed on Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers relating to his ‘Delilah’ pr...

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Five Sk:n Group companies in liquidation: information for patients, employees and creditors

Five Sk:n Group companies in liquidation: information for patients, employees and creditors

16 August 2024 - 11:33 News Story

The Insolvency Service

Information for patients and their relatives and carers, employees and creditors of the five Sk:n Group of companies in ...

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Chancellor appoints Professor Alan Taylor as member of the Monetary Policy Committee

Chancellor appoints Professor Alan Taylor as member of the Monetary Policy Committee

16 August 2024 - 11:00 Press Release

HM Treasury

Professor Alan Taylor confirmed as new member of Monetary Policy Committee....

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Chief Vet reminds farmers of bluetongue risk

Chief Vet reminds farmers of bluetongue risk

16 August 2024 - 09:39 Press Release

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Farmers urged to take up free testing and source livestock responsibly as case numbers increasing in Europe ...

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Anniversary Statement: Magic Cyclone, G-KEVA, 16 August 2023

Anniversary Statement: Magic Cyclone, G-KEVA, 16 August 2023

16 August 2024 - 09:00 News Story

Air Accidents Investigation Branch

Aircraft accelerated and struck a wire fence, Glassonby Airfield, Cumbria, 16 August 2023...

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Public trust in charities at ten-year high, new research shows

Public trust in charities at ten-year high, new research shows

16 August 2024 - 09:00 Press Release

The Charity Commission

People receiving charitable support grows threefold in four years, as cost of living pressures bite. ...

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