Full Coverage: United Kingdom

29.10.2008 Emteaz Hussain says she ran away and took shelter in a women’s refuge when she was 16, so it’s not surprising that the central characters in her first play, Sweet Cider, are two young British Asian women who have run away from home.

25.10.2008 The BFM International Film Festival - the largest black world cinema event in the UK - opens on 7 November and takes place at venues across London. This year’s festival reflects predominantly British work but also showcases films from African and the Caribbean.

24.10.2008 Carbon emission targets, international agreements and carbon markets are not effective ways of tackling climate change, Prof Lord Anthony Giddens told a meeting in London this week.

24.10.2008 All Britain’s main high street banks are using customers’ money to finance the weapons industry, including the sale of cluster bombs which kill and maim innocent civilians, says new research unveiled today - the beginning of UN Disarmament Week.

22.10.2008 Exiled families longing to return to their native islands in the Indian Ocean - from which they were expelled by Britain to make way for a US military base - cannot return home, Britain's highest court has ruled.
+ The Chagossians fate
+ Previous coverage

18.10.2008 "I was 16 when I ended up in an Asian women's refuge. On my second night there, the girls took me to a pub - I had never been in a pub in my life! I had no idea what to drink and how to ask for it. The girls told me to ask for sweet ciders." Sweet Cider by Emteaz Hussain at the Arcola Theatre.

18.10.2008 Mike Tyson has been beaten in a prize-fight – by four women.

17.10.2008 More than 40 events - film, photography, literature, critical theory, architecture and planning - to throw light on cities ‘from the ground up’, including discussions, films, workshops, symposiums, exhibitions and a walk, free.

17.10.2008 UK Premier Gordon Brown's personal pollsters have tried to fix another public consultation on new nuclear power, claims a leading environmental group.

14.10.2008 Councils have a chance to opt in to new legislation designed to help to assist them reverse the decline of local services, dealing with fuel poverty, protecting the environment and obtaining greater involvement in civic activity.

13.10.2008 One of India’s most isolated tribes is preparing to stop the British company Vedanta from mining aluminium ore on their sacred mountain, after police and hired thugs forced protestors to dismantle a barricade over the weekend.
+ Uncontacted tribe’s plight sparks mass Indian plea to president
+ Amazon tribe’s protest shuts down dam site

09.10.2008 Major donors and grant-making charitable trusts will cut their donations as their wealth and dividend incomes fall and the decline in corporate support for the charity sector will be particularly marked, hundreds of charity leaders were told in London yesterday.

09.10.2008 Malaysian palm oil is finding its way into British petrol tanks despite concerns about its carbon balance and the rainforest being destroyed to produce it, claims a new report.

08.10.2008 Failure to factor climate change into the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was a major mistake, Lord Stern told a meeting in London this week.

06.10.2008 The number of fuel poor households in England is now higher than at any time recorded since Labour came to power, say Friends of the Earth and Help the Aged, who are taking the government to court today over its failure to tackle fuel poverty.
+ Charities put ministers in the dock over energy poverty

06.10.2008 Vulnerable people, often with babies and young children, are being forced into "truly shocking" poverty by the British government's policy of forcing some asylum-seekers to live on vouchers, says a report.