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    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding day has reportedly been revealed. And there's good news for those hoping for a bank holiday for the Royal Wedding - but not for the reason you think. The happy couple will reportedly break from royal tradition and tie the knot on a weekend. The nuptials will take place at Windsor Castle on Saturday, May 26, according to The Sun. Harry and Meghan's big day happens to coincide with the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, which means Brits will have Monday May 28 off work anyway. Earlier this week, Downing Street there were no plans for a bank holiday to celebrate the Royal wedding in 2018. Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said there was "no precedent" for one - a blow to the millions who wanted a day off. Kensington Palace confirmed on...

    Little more than two weeks after arriving in the UK, Meghan Markle has dived straight into her strange new world as Prince Harry’s fiancee with an introduction to that royal staple the walkabout. Nottingham was chosen for her inauguration into the firm, and her first step in a career that will include an abundance of royal waves, handshakes, tree plantings and ribbon cutting. Meghan Markle is an American actor, best known for her role in the hit series Suits. She has described herself as an actress, a writer, the editor-in-chief of my lifestyle brand the Tig, a pretty good cook, and a firm believer in handwritten notes. She has also campaigned for humanitarian causes. The 36-year-old grew up in Los Angeles. She studied at a girls Roman Catholic college there before attendi...

    Rogue states and terrorists will get their hands on lethal artificial intelligence in the very near future, a House of Lords committee has been told. Alvin Wilby, vice-president of research at French defence giant Thales, which supplies reconnaissance drones to the British Army, said the genie is out of the bottle with smart technology. And he raised the prospect of attacks by swarms of small drones that move around and select targets with only limited input from humans. The technological challenge of scaling it up to swarms and things like that doesn't need any inventive step, he told the Lords Artificial Intelligence committee. It's just a question of time and scale and I think that's an absolute certainty that we should worry about. The US and Chinese military are testi...

    Net migration is estimated to have fallen by nearly a third to 230,000 in the year to June, new figures show. It is the first time that a full year of data has been available since the UK voted to leave the EU last June. The figure is still short of the Conservatives' target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands. Net migration is the difference between people coming to the UK for more than a year, and the number of people leaving the UK for a year or more. In this 12-month period, 572,000 people arrived in the UK, and 342,000 emigrated, the Office for National Statistics report showed. Immigration specifically fell by 80,000 people over the year and three-quarters of that drop was down to fewer EU citizens coming to live in the UK, figures showed. Nicola White, ...

    Donald Trump's re-tweets of far-right group Britain First are a betrayal of the special relationship, Sadiq Khan has said. The Mayor of London launched a blistering response to the US President's promotion of three anti-Muslim videos on Wednesday. Many Brits who love America and Americans will see this as a betrayal of the special relationship between our two countries, Mr Khan said on Thursday. It beggars belief that the President of our closest ally doesn't see that his support of this extremist group actively undermines the values of tolerance and diversity that makes Britain so great. Theresa May Mr Khan, who was targetted directly by the US President for his response to the London Bridge terror attack, added his most recent intervention should see a planned state visi...

    US President Donald Trump, in an unprecedented public attack on America’s closest security ally, sharply rebuked British Prime Theresa May on Twitter after Britain criticised him for retweeting British far-right anti-Islam videos. Theresa don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine,’ Trump tweeted, sparking further outrage in Britain that has seen several major Islamist militant attacks on its streets. Trump’s unrepentant response was a reaction to May’s spokesman who on Wednesday criticised his retweets of anti-Islam videos originally posted by a leader of a British far-right fringe group. It is wrong for the president to have done this,’ the spokesman said. Trump sparked crit...

    The pound bounced back on currency markets on Tuesday after the Telegraph revealed that British and EU negotiators have broken the deadlock on the Brexit divorce bill. After being dragged down earlier in the day by Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s gloomy warning of potential Brexit “pain”, sterling spiked above €1.12 against the euro as traders piled into the currency on news of a breakthrough in talks. The long-awaited progress propelled the pound from a 0.6pc loss to a 0.6pc gain against the euro in a matter of minutes while it soared back above $1.33 against the dollar. Uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations has proved a major impediment to the pound’s recovery this year with stumbling talks offsetting gains made as the Bank of England prepared markets for th...

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are wasting no time with their nuptials, confirming they plan to get married in May, within six months of announcing their engagement. And according to royal expert Kate Nicholl, the prince’s special bond with his aging grandfather, Prince Philip, is behind both the timing and venue for the wedding. He didn't want to get married at the same place as his brother,” Nicholl told ET about the couple’s choice to hold the ceremony at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, where the Queen and Prince Philip reside. “He didn't want to have such a big royal wedding at Westminster Abbey -- it doesn't need to be as big as William's wedding. Harry really wanted to have something a little bit more intimate. The second reason is that he wanted something clos...

    Theresa May has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for retweeting inflammatory videos about Muslims from a leader of the British far-right. The Prime Minister said via a spokesperson that it was "wrong" for Trump to have broadcast the footage to his 46 million Twitter followers this morning. Theresa May Trump reposted three videos by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, the UK's most well-known far-right group. A spokesperson told journalists: Britain First seeks to divide communities and cause anxiety to law abiding people. The spokesperson added: "It is wrong for the President to have done this.

    Brits will be hit with a polar windchill as temperatures plummet to -10C tonight - making it colder than the closest village to the North Pole. Forecasters predict up to eight inches of snow will fall in parts of the country while temperatures fall to a record low, sparking a Government health alert. A Yellow Ice and Snow warning has been issued across Scotland, the east Midlands, the east of England, north east England and Yorkshire tonight and tomorrow. PA The Met Office has warned there will up to eight inches of snow in North Yorkshire and Scotland tonight and some flurries could be seen in London and the south east. Public Health England declared a Level 2 cold weather health alert until Saturday, warning hospitals to prepare to be busier than normal. Health staff hav...