Illegal migrants desperate to get into Britain have exploited the closing of Calais and travel chaos on both sides of the English Channel.

Police release aerial footage of deranged cage fighter on rampage after beheading 82-year-old woman and her two cats.

The fining of a British driver for being a road hog is something many Kiwi drivers would like to see enforced here, according to Herald readers.

Two boys were caught plotting to blow up the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace after suspicious powder was in found in a bedroom.

A British motorist is the first person in the country to be convicted in court of hogging the middle lane of a motorway.

The university accused of forcing a Nobel Prize winning scientist to resign over sexist comments is at the centre of a new row over freedom of expression.

A Red Devil parachutist had a lucky escape when his chute failed to open at an air show - leaving a teammate to catch him in mid-air and bring him to safety.

The BBC has refuted Jeremy Clarkson's claim that he was asked to return as the host of Top Gear months after he was axed.

A pregnant London woman who lost her baby in an attack was left lying in the street waiting for an ambulance for more than an hour.

A heart-warming picture of a British police officer helping an elderly man with his shopping has gone viral.

Kevin Pilley enjoys a game of beach cricket with Kiwi pals on the picturesque Fife coast northeast of Edinburgh.

Nicola Sturgeon, the most senior politician in Scotland, is leading the drive for Scottish independence and even appeared on The Daily Show.

A spider claimed to be the world's deadliest is feared to be on the loose in Britain after a family spotted a nest in a bunch of bananas.

A woman who breached a court order barring her from causing nuisance by making "loud sex noises" was sent to jail.

A British lottery winner who was told he had just won the 8 million ($16.98 million) jackpot responded by saying "lovely", a recording has revealed.

More than one million foreigners living in Britain will be banned from voting in the EU referendum.

It was the biggest earthquake to hit Britain in seven years, but people living near the epicentre in Kent would have been forgiven for not feeling the earth move yesterday.

A sex attacker got more than he bargained for when he preyed on a kickboxer who throttled him with her legs until he passed out.

Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Britain's oldest National Trail - the Pennine Way. Ellie Ross follows the acorn signposts up hill and down dale for a celebratory ramble.

Kiwi Duncan Smith was a “hard-core regular” at his UK squash club and often played there three or four times a week.

The parents of two boys who set themselves on fire as part of an online craze have pleaded for videos promoting the dangerous stunt to be taken off the internet.

The election fate of Britain’s Lib Dems is similar to failed coalition partnerships in New Zealand, writes John Roughan.

Britain’s longest-serving poppy seller has been found dead amid concerns that she was being besieged with begging letters from dozens of charities.

Most incoming governments take charge of divided countries, that's the nature of democracy. And the UK is really no more divided now, writes Paul Thomas.

Talk show host berates audience who laughed at man who was forced to jump off a three-storey balcony to escape his violent girlfriend.

A giant conger eel weighing in at 59kgs and measuring 6.4 metres has been caught off the coast of Devon.

Letters from Prince Charles to government ministers were finally published after a 10-year legal battle to keep them from public view, opening debate on whether the Prince overreached into political affairs.

A Kiwi professor will deliver a lecture at London's Imperial War Museum today on a flu pandemic that killed more people than the whole of the First World War.

Ed Miliband did a really good job of keeping the UK Labour Party united, writes Josie Pagani. They still lost, proving there is more to winning elections than having everyone singing

Three British teenage girls were reported to be on the run from Isis raising fears it might be the London schoolgirls who fled there earlier this year.