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- Visitors look at the 5,000 year-old remains of Skara Brae village in the Scottish Orkney Islands, July 19, 2005, which was revealed by a huge storm in 1850. Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution. They want to rejoin Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal wedding dowry more than 550 years ago. Orkney Islands Council is due to debate options for “alternative models of governance” on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. ( AP Photo/Naomi Koppel, File)
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First Brexit, now Orxit? Politicians on Scotland's Orkney Islands vote to explore more autonomy
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
Tue,07/04/23-6:44AM , 419 Reads
LONDON (AP) — Officials on the Orkney Islands, a corner of Scotland with Viking roots and an independent spirit, seized a moment in the global spotlight on Tuesday and voted to explore ways of seeking more autonomy — or even independence — from neglectful U.K. governments.
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- Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman pauses, during a press conference in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, March 18, 2023. A British court on Thursday, June 29, 2023 has ruled that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful. Court of Appeal judges said Rwanda could not be considered a “safe third country” where migrants could be sent. (AP Photo, File)
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UK government vows to challenge court ruling that its plan to send migrants to Rwanda is unlawful
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
Thu,06/29/23-4:32AM , 391 Reads
LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Thursday that a U.K. government plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is unlawful, delivering a blow to the Conservative administration's pledge to stop migrants making risky journeys across the English Channel.
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- Director James Cameron walks in Purmamarca, Jujuy province, Argentina, on June 8, 2023. Cameron says the search operation for a deep-sea tourist sub turned into a “nightmarish charade” that prolonged the agony of the families of the passengers. Cameron told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday June 23, 2023 that he "felt in my bones” that the Titan submersible had been lost soon after he heard it had lost contact with the surface during its descent to the wreckage of the ocean liner at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Javier Corbalan, File)
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'Titanic' director James Cameron says the search for the missing sub became a 'nightmarish charade'
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
Fri,06/23/23-7:05AM , 570 Reads
LONDON (AP) — “Titanic” director James Cameron says the search operation for a deep-sea tourist sub turned into a “nightmarish charade” that prolonged
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- People bound for Royal Ascot race meeting walk past the National Windrush Monument in Waterloo Station in London, Thursday June 22, 2023. Windrush Day is being marked on Thursday on what is the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the ship the Empire Windrush on June 22, 1948. It became a symbol of the post-war migration that transformed the U.K. and its culture. The term Windrush generation has come to stand for hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in the U.K. between the late 1940s and early 1970s, especially those from former British colonies in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Tony Hicks)
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Britain marks the Windrush anniversary with the story of its Caribbean community still being written
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
Thu,06/22/23-1:08AM , 229 Reads
LONDON (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, a ship landed at Tilbury Dock near London, carrying more than 800 passengers from the Caribbean to new lives in Britain.
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