The UK Independence Party (UKIP) declares itself the official opposition after making big gains in local elections. UKIP is averaging 25% of the vote in the wards where it is standing with more than 140 seats so far, the state-run BBC reported. Labour stands in the lead and the Conservatives in second place with 29% and 25% respectively. UKIP is also in third place with 23% of votes while the Liberal... 

Researchers say the governments in Britain and Scotland are willfully underestimating the number of families living in poverty, local media reported. A report backed by the Economic and Social Research Council found that ministers both at Holyrood and Westminster have failed to “effectively define” deprivation. Academics at Edinburgh University believe there is a “weakness” in the way central... 

David Cameron has said he would consider further powers for Scotland, but only after a referendum. David Cameron made his boldest move yet in the campaign to stop Scotland voting for independence by offering the country more freedom from Westminster if it votes no in the coming referendum. Speaking to business leaders in the capital, Edinburgh, the prime minister said the referendum did not have to... 

Fourteen people were injured and 35 were arrested outside the Conservative Party's headquarters. Other demonstrators massed near Parliament. A demonstration against government proposals to cut education spending and steeply increase tuition for university students turned violent on Wednesday as protesters attempted to storm the building that houses the Conservative Party. The protesters scuffled... 

Inspectors from Westminster City Council photographed this cockroach eating a chip in the Leicester Square branch of KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was ordered to pay out almost £19,000 today after a cockroach was found eating a chip in one of the busiest branches in Britain. The insect was seen on a food dispensing counter near takeaway boxes and tongs used to serve chicken by an environmental... 

A shocking report, ordered by the Metropolitan Police Authority, has revealed that 92 percent of all gang rapists in London are immigrants. Fifty percent of all the victims are British. The report, drawn up by a senior detective from the Yard’s Operation Sapphire team, which investigates sex crimes, revealed that eight percent of all gang rape suspects in 2008/09 were white, 32 percent were black,... 

Nationalist campaign worker beaten with a hammer by leftist thugs. The media love to forge an image of the specter of “right wing violence,” yet downplay or ignore the organized violence of the left. And while “anarchists” and Marxists may commit the violence, well funded special interest groups use the media to stoke and inflame the climate of hatred that leads to the violence. In...