Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• British Airways cancels flights due to ash cloud (AFP)
• Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters)
• UK lawmakers green light shale gas drilling (AP)
• MP defies court to name Giggs in injunction row (AFP)
• Clinton: More NATO nations must join Libya mission (AP)
• Volcanic cloud heads to Scotland, flights canceled (AP)
• UK outlines plans for green bank (AP)
• Twitter 1, UK justice 0 as gag order collapses (AP)
• FTSE closes lower on signs of slower growth (AFP)
• UK lawmaker names soccer star Giggs in privacy row (Reuters)
• Chelsea flower show blossoms despite dry weather (AFP)
• UK warns of likely flight disruption from ash cloud (Reuters)
• Cameron blasts 'unsustainable' gagging orders (AFP)
• Britain's banks fail to meet lending target (AP)
• Britain's battle over privacy law descends to farce (Reuters)
• Former UK minister to take police to court (AP)
• British electricity pylons to get a makeover (AFP)
• US, Britain to start joint security council (AP)
• Alex Salmond urges cuts in North Sea oil taxes (AFP)
• Toilet is centrepiece of Chelsea show garden (AFP)

British Airways cancels flights due to ash cloud (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:58 PM PDT AFP - Flagship carrier British Airways said Monday it was to temporarily suspend flights between London and Scotland as a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano drifted towards Britain.

Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday begins a visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will review NATO action to help end conflict in Libya and Western policy toward uprisings in the Arab world.

UK lawmakers green light shale gas drilling (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 02:39 PM PDT AP - British lawmakers said Monday that shale gas resources in Britain should be developed to reduce the country's reliance on imported supplies.

MP defies court to name Giggs in injunction row (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:38 PM PDT AFP - A lawmaker defied a court ruling Monday by naming Ryan Giggs as the footballer who used an injunction to keep details of an alleged affair secret, escalating a row over privacy laws and the Internet.

Clinton: More NATO nations must join Libya mission (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged more NATO nations to take an operational role in the air campaign in Libya, and defended her own country's contribution to the mission.

Volcanic cloud heads to Scotland, flights canceled (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 02:26 PM PDT AP - A dense ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano blew toward Scotland on Monday, causing airlines to cancel flights, forcing President Barack Obama to shorten a visit to Ireland, and raising fears of a repeat of last year's huge travel disruptions in Europe that stranded millions of passengers.

UK outlines plans for green bank (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 11:06 AM PDT AP - The British government outlined plans for the world's first state-backed green investment bank on Monday — a key plank of its pledge to transition the country into a low-carbon economy.

Twitter 1, UK justice 0 as gag order collapses (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 11:04 AM PDT AP - Britain's scandal-hungry news media, an outspoken parliamentarian and thousands of ordinary people using the Twitter micro-blogging site have dealt a body blow to an institution of British justice, flouting a gag order imposed by one of the country's top judges.

FTSE closes lower on signs of slower growth (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 09:48 AM PDT AFP - London shares closed sharply lower on Monday, hit by signs of slower growth -- especially in global powerhouse China -- and fears that Greek debt problems will spark a new eurozone crisis.

UK lawmaker names soccer star Giggs in privacy row (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - A British politician defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to prevent newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair.

Chelsea flower show blossoms despite dry weather (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 07:45 AM PDT AFP - Britain's dry spring has forced many exhibitors at Chelsea flower show to amend their planned displays but they believe that the horticultural extravaganza will be as colourful as ever when it opens on Monday.

UK warns of likely flight disruption from ash cloud (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 06:48 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it was likely that flights from parts of the country would be disrupted Tuesday by an ash cloud billowing from a volcano in Iceland.

Cameron blasts 'unsustainable' gagging orders (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 06:24 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron weighed in Monday on an escalating row over Britain's privacy laws, saying it was "unsustainable" to impose gagging orders on newspapers only for them to be breached online.

Britain's banks fail to meet lending target (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 06:19 AM PDT AP - The British government has warned the country's major banks that it wants to see a "significant improvement" in lending to smaller businesses after figures released Monday fell well short of pledges.

Britain's battle over privacy law descends to farce (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 06:19 AM PDT Reuters - An increasingly farcical game of cat-and-mouse between Britain's media and celebrities, Twitter users and the judiciary prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to promise a review of the country's privacy laws on Monday.

Former UK minister to take police to court (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 06:02 AM PDT AP - Britain's former deputy prime minister won the right Monday to a legal review of the way London's Metropolitan Police handled the wide-ranging phone hacking campaign mounted by a British tabloid newspaper.

British electricity pylons to get a makeover (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 05:59 AM PDT AFP - Electricity pylons across the British countryside may soon cease to be eyesores thanks to a government backed competition for a new design.

US, Britain to start joint security council (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 05:37 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will announce the formation of a new joint U.S.-British national security council when he visits London this week.

Alex Salmond urges cuts in North Sea oil taxes (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:53 AM PDT AFP - Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond on Monday urged the British government to ease a "smash and grab raid" on North Sea oil revenues, as he arrived in London for talks after his election success.

Toilet is centrepiece of Chelsea show garden (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:26 AM PDT AFP - A toilet is the centrepiece of a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, based around the traditional Korean belief that emptying your body also means cleansing your mind.

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