British champion Backstedt eyes Tour de France debut

Zoe Backstedt aims to ride her first Tour de France Femmes in August after an "incredible" double title-winning week at the British Road Championships.

Burnham vows to ‘rewire’ British state

UK’s prime minister-in-waiting takes aim at centralisation and promises voters help on living costs

Penelope Keith: the most spectacular sitcom snob ever to grace our screens

In The Good Life, To the Manor Born and beyond, the star played domineering snobs with pinpoint comic timing – yet she still made them feel like old friends. No one will do it better At their broadest, and most audience-friendly, sitcoms thrive on stock characters: chancers, jobsworths, slobs and snobs. No actor has ever been more suited to the last than Penelope Keith. Others have played funny snobs, but she was a walking colour chart of snobbery. Her greatest strength was her ability to alw...

By Stuart Heritage

King Charles becomes first British monarch to publicly disclose tax payments, revealing $39.6M bill

King Charles paid over $39.6 million in taxes since 2022, becoming the first reigning British monarch to voluntarily disclose personal tax information.

Ottawa set to relaunch federal green home retrofit program in 4 provinces

After a hiatus, the popular greener homes grant is returning to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and British Columbia, CBC News has learned.

Penelope Keith, star of classic British sitcom The Good Life, dies at 86

Penelope Keith, a comic performer who shone as flinty but lovable upper-crust characters in British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born, has died aged 86. Keith’s family said on Monday that she had been diagnosed with cancer and died at her home in Surrey, near London. Keith began her acting career onstage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 but she found her greatest fame on television. She won a Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award in 1977 for The G...

By Associated Press

Silverstone’s 2026 Nightmare: Why the British GP Will Brutalize the New Hybrid F1 Cars

Silverstone has historically been revered as the ultimate aerodynamic testing ground—a flowing, high-speed ribbon of the British GP asphalt that rewards massive downforce and supreme cornering bravery. But as the Formula 1 paddock sets up in Northamptonshire, the engineering conversation…

FIRST READING: Recriminalizing drugs might have something to do with B.C.’s falling overdose rate

The introduction of decriminalization, on the other hand, directly precipitated one of the world's worst spikes in overdose deaths

By Tristin Hopper

Dan and Phil on Going Back on Tour After Finally Revealing Their Relationship: ‘We Just Want to Go on Stage and Be Completely Ourselves’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Last fall, Dan Howell and Phil Lester broke the internet. In a 46-minute video titled “Are Dan and Phil in a Relationship? The Truth,” the OG British YouTubers finally revealed — after 16 years of speculation — that they’re a couple, and have been since they started making videos together in 2009. The news made […]

By Ellise Shafer

Penelope Keith, British Sitcom Star Best Known for ‘The Good Life,’ Dies at 86

The show, which went by 'Good Neighbors' in the U.S., ran from 1975 to 1978 and won Keith a BAFTA.

By Lily Ford

Johann Grech dumps David Walliams as annual multi-million party moves to Rinella

Film Commissioner Johann Grech has quietly ended his four-year association with British comedian David Walliams, dropping the controversial British television personality from this year’s Mediterrane Film Festival gala, which was held on Sunday evening at Fort Rinella. Walliams, who had become the face of Grech’s annual taxpayer-funded film extravaganza since first being engaged in 2022, … Continued

By The Shift Team

Cyprus should review British bases status says Bar Association

Cyprus possesses strong legal arguments which could form the basis for revisiting the issue of the British bases within the framework of modern international law, participants at a discussion organised by the Cyprus Bar Association heard. The event brought together academics, legal experts and government officials to discuss the legal status and future of the […]

The Good Life and To The Manor Born star Penelope Keith dies aged 86

By Laura Harding

Penelope Keith Dies: BAFTA-Winning ‘The Good Life’ Actress Was 86

Dame Penelope Keith, the BAFTA-winning British actress best known for the BBC comedy The Good Life, has died. She was 86. In a statement sent to British media, Keith’s family said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Dame Penelope Keith died peacefully whilst living with cancer at her home in Surrey where she had […]

By Jake Kanter

The Good Life star Penelope Keith has died aged 86

Penelope Keith, best known for sitcoms The Good Life and To The Manor Born, has died aged 86, her family said in a statement.

Penelope Keith, star of classic British sitcom The Good Life, has died aged 86

Keith played the snobbish, social climbing Margot in the classic BBC show

Where failure is free, nations pay, By Dakuku Peterside

There is a powerful lesson in the political fate of Keir Starmer, but it is not merely a British lesson. It is not about Westminster drama, Labour Party turbulence, or the familiar theatre of parliamentary politics. It is about a deeper principle without which no democracy can remain healthy for long: leadership only improves when […] The post Where failure is free, nations pay, By Dakuku Peterside appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

By Dakuku Peterside

250 Years Ago: South Carolina Defeats The British Empire

250 Years Ago: South Carolina Defeats The British Empire Authored by Alan Wakim via The Epoch Times, On the morning of June 28, 1776, Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five presented a draft of the Declaration of Independence to John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress. Although immortalized by John Trumbull’s famous painting, the historic moment unfolded with quiet parliamentary precision and strict protocol rather than fanfare. The attack on the fort o...

By Tyler Durden