John Prescott and the pork pie

Sky Newsโ€™ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politicoโ€™s Dan Bloom look at the day ahead in British politics. The Labour Party has descended on Hull for the funeral of John Prescott. Sky Newsโ€™ chief political correspondent Jon Craig had many a run-in with the former deputy prime minister and shares some of his best [โ€ฆ]

โ€˜Weโ€™ve heard these promises beforeโ€™: is this the end of the line for Irish fishing?

Devastated by quota changes post-Brexit, fishers are pinning all their hopes on Irelandโ€™s politicians as they head into a general electionWords and pictures by Finbarr Oโ€™ReillyGale force winds gusting across the North Atlantic Ocean kicked up thick spu…

Divers search for last missing person in British tech magnateโ€™s superyacht shipwreck

Italian rescue divers recovered a fifth body on Thursday from the wreckage of British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s family yacht, which sank earlier in the week during a severe storm off the coast of Sicily. The search for the sixth and final victim conti…

UK far-right riots: everything we know

What has happened, who is behind the violence and how the UK government has responded.

British PM threatens dire consequences as race riots escalate

Far right rioters have targeted mosques and other buildings following the killing of three young girls in Southport last Monday.

UK local elections: How to watch like a pro

From declaration times to the top TV pundits, POLITICO has the true nerds covered in the crucial local fights.

โ€˜Hull is inspirationalโ€™: Mariupol academics look to Yorkshire as they plan for rebuilding of city

Ukrainians in exile plan to rebuild Russian-occupied home city with help from University of HullArchitects rebuilding the destroyed city of Mariupol will learn lessons from Hull, which was regenerated after heavy bombing in the blitz, the rector of Mar…

Sweden seeks to tighten NATOโ€™s grip in Baltic Sea with 2 new submarinesย 

Swedenโ€™s first new submarines inย decades will have advanced weapons, stealthy propulsion and sonar-evading hulls to counter Russia under the Baltic Sea.

Zelenskyyโ€™s secret โ€˜Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfareโ€™

Ukraine certainly has its heroes and martyrs, but only once the war is over will there be an opportunity to assess exactly how impactful the countryโ€™s commandos have been.

Families of Yorkshire divers who died on Greece trip โ€˜may never know what happenedโ€™

Investigation into deaths of Vincent Hong and Timothy Saville โ€˜let downโ€™ by Greek authorities, says coroner The families of two men from Yorkshire who died on a scuba diving trip in Greece have been told they may never find out exactly what happened to…

โ€˜It all disappeared with Brexitโ€™: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust

New trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changesKimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft …

Meet Westminsterโ€™s attack dogs

The gloves are coming come off in Westminster, even before the general election has been called.

โ€˜We are at 50% of the quota we hadโ€™: boss of UKโ€™s last long-range trawler rues โ€˜squanderedโ€™ Brexit hopes

The Kirkella used to bring in 10% of the cod and haddock sold in chip shops. But the post-EU settlement means its quotas have been slashed. Can it survive?Docked in the port of Hull, the fishing vessel Kirkella dominates the quayside, towering over a n…