Researchers from Norway and the United Kingdom found that mortality rates for people suffering from depression are similar to those who smoke.

As two of the largest British banking groups (Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland) are about to sell hundreds of their branches, millions of UK customers will face years of uncertainty.

With many of the country's current nuclear power stations coming to the end of their working lives, the U.K. government has revealed the details of ten locations where it is hoping to build a new generation of nuclear plants over the next two decades.

After agreeing to provide authorities in the U.S. with details of 4,450 of its American clients the Swiss bank UBS has now received requests from authorities in the U.K. and Australia for information on its cross-border wealth management services.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have confirmed that the Territorial Support Group (TSG), a unit within London's Metropolitan Police Service, has received 5,000 complaints in just four years.

Five British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan police officer on Tuesday afternoon as they rested inside a compound in Helmand Province where they had been living for the past two weeks and acting as mentors to the gunman and his colleagues.

The U.K. Parliament is due to witness its first civil partnership ceremony in the near future after Europe Minister Chris Bryant confirmed that he and his partner Jared Cranney are hoping to get "married" within its historic walls next year.

Two Beefeaters have been suspended and a third is under investigation over allegations that the first woman to become a Yeoman Warder in the 1000-year history of the Tower of London has been harassed.

Leaders from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Baha'i, Jain and Zoroastrian faiths have said climate change posed a "very real threat to the world's poor".

Research conducted by psychiatrists in Britain has revealed that members of the country's armed forces returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan commonly suffer from depression, with many turning to alcohol for relief.

It is looking increasingly certain that a lack of support amongst both center-right and center-left politicians across Europe will put paid to Tony Blair's chances of becoming the first President of Europe.

Research conducted by experts from Queen Mary, University of London has revealed that an increase in older mothers has led to a rise in the number of babies diagnosed in England and Wales with Down's Syndrome.

One of the world's leading experts on climate change has said that people becoming vegetarians would help the fight against global warming.

Members of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the U.K. parliament, will vote on Monday on proposed legislation that would criminalize modern-day slavery and forced labor.

A Lance Corporal in the British army who faces a court martial for refusing to return to Afghanistan will lead a march in Central London on Saturday that will call for the U.K. to withdraw its forces from the conflict in the South Central Asian country.

Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, has delivered a speech in which he accuses the U.K. banking industry of failing to reform and the U.K. government of failing to have an adequate regulatory system in place.

U.K. Chancellor Alistair Darling has blocked an attempt by Sweden, which currently holds the E.U. presidency, to reach an agreement for the creation of a regulatory body for the banking sector within the European Union's 27 member states.

Crime figures for every street in England and Wales are now available in the form of an interactive map, launched on Tuesday by the Home Office.

Two former heads of the British Army have put their names to a letter which warns of the danger of far-right groups hijacking "the good name of Britain's military for their own advantage".

After a suicide bomb attack in Sistan-Baluchistan province in Southeast Iran that killed six commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and 37 other people, the U.S. the U.K. and Pakistan have all been accused of complicity in the bombing.