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Peer Reviewer contract holders will receive contract extension from 1 April 2025.

Today the IPO has launched a suite of new digital services to apply for, manage or renew UK patents.

Science Secretary Liz Kendall has named Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz as her preferred candidate for Chair of UK Research and Innovation

Statement on Lebanon by the foreign ministers of Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, the UK a

UK Statement on the Appointment of Mandate Holders. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders.

The Prime Minister's remarks at a press conference in Downing Street.

£307 million to repair and maintain colleges in all regions of England to fix leaking roofs, broken windows and worn-out facilities, deliver

On 4 March 2026, a winding-up order was made against Woodbois Limited, a company incorporated in Gurnsey (company number CMP52184).

From 1 April most planning applications made to local planning authorities will follow a new route if they are appealed and decided via writ

Investigation into a near miss between a passenger train and a track worker at Harpenden, Hertfordshire, 7 March 2026.