Detectives investigating cyber attacks on UK retailers are focussing on a notorious cluster of cyber criminals known to be young English-speakers, some of them teenagers, police have revealed.

Britain's economy will grow a bit faster this year than thought a month ago, a Reuters poll of economists predicted, partly due to unexpectedly strong growth in the first quarter that was not expected to persist.

"There isn't the feeling of community that I was expecting. At least not where I live," Jessica Hanson told Newsweek.

The Country Land and Business Association’s president Victoria Vyvyan called for an “immediate reassurance” that the UK would have a voice in decisions made under the new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement that covers food safety and animal and plant health.

Former Conservative MP Katie Wallis, who was previously known as Jamie Wallis, pleaded not guilty Monday to harassing her former partner, Rebecca Wallis, earlier this year.

Pay settlements granted by British employers stayed at 3% in the three months to April but many firms are now offering smaller raises, according to figures from data firm Brightmine that are likely to be welcomed by the Bank of England.

The UK's oldest polar bear has been euthanised due to her deteriorating health, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has said. Victoria, who was 28, was the mother of Hamish, who in January 2018 was the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK in 25 years.