Justine Gerardy

Subz knocking out a quick alert in AFP’s Kabul office

بنٹوں یا کنچوں کی عالمی چیمپیئن شپ، جو 1930 کے عشرے سے انگلینڈ میں ہو رہی ہے اور اس مرتبہ انگلش ٹیم جرمنی کو ہرا کر بنٹے چیمپیئن بنی UK team pips Germans in England's annual World Marbles Championship which has been running since 1930s in Crawley, England

Feet in the air and crash helmets on: the UK Wife Carrying Race takes place in Surrey, England, with teams running up and down a hill in a quirky tradition with Finnish roots.

The world's biggest dog show Crufts opens in Britain With plenty of barks, treats and tail-wagging, the world's biggest and most famous dog show gets underway in Britain, with a record number of overseas entries among those bidding for Crufts glory. More than 20,000 pooches of varying size, shape and personality are competing in the four-day showcase

London pub braces for UK budget after 'disastrous' cost increases. Pub landlord James Fitzgerald is bracing for the UK government's November 26 budget. Fitzgerald has seen his running costs rocket, including rising energy prices alongside hikes in food bills, taxes and the minimum wage

🇬🇧 London's Kew Gardens opens its 2025 Christmas lights trail London's world-renowned botanical attraction, Kew Gardens, has opened its annual "Christmas at Kew" lights installation, which takes visitors on an illuminated trail around the site.

NEW on our site Inside AFP’s fight to protect its Gaza reporters “Some of our freelancers have lost 20-30 kilos. Their battle to find food and to feed their family is immense,” says Global News Director @philchet in this interview with @Marina__Adami reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/starved-d…

VIDEO: 🇬🇧 🐌 'Ready... Steady... Slow!' UK village hosts World Snail Racing Championships Congham in Norfolk hosted the 2025 edition of the championships during which dozens of entrants were seen off by a rented snail called Bilbo Sluggins 📹 @JustineGerardy

UK Flooding: Volunteers build natural flood barriers in Leicester by using logs @JyotsnaKumar13 brings you this report

🇬🇧 VIDEO: Centenarian Dorothea Barron, who now teaches yoga and saw in her big 100th birthday with a celebratory flight in a Spitfire fighter plane, is among an ever-shrinking number of veterans with first-hand memories of the war.

Vétérane et prof de yoga : à 100 ans, Dorothea Barron fait toujours preuve d'une détermination sans faille. La même détermination qui lui a permis d'intégrer la branche féminine de la Royal Navy en 1943.

🇬🇧 VIDEO: A Tesla, destined to be scrapped, is destroyed with baseball bats and sledgehammers in London at an event organised by UK campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon". The damaged vehicle will create an art piece "London vs Musk" that will be sold to raise funds for food banks.

🇬🇧 VIDEO: At the bottom of a long-abandoned mine that supplied the gold for Britain's royal family wedding rings, the search for rare Welsh gold is back on as gold prices hit fresh highs in the turmoil of US trade tariffs.

VIDEO: At the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, southwestern England, visitors don extravagant costumes and pose with a Mr Darcy mannequin. This year, the city and the wider UK kick off celebrations in the run up to the literary icon's 250th birthday on December 16.

VIDEO: Cider and animal bones in pagan-rooted British ritual for bountiful apple crop. A cider bowl is passed around and people in animal bone costumes dance a jig as a crowd wishes good health to apple trees. It’s a tradition with pagan roots in the UK known as wassailing, which is enjoying something of a revival. "I think there's a big movement at the minute, particularly in the UK, to reclaim some of the lost pagan histories that are around," says Cordelia Roberts, a participant at an urban wassail in the east London suburb of Hackney

VIDEO: Drag queens have gathered in London for the third RuPaul's DragCon UK, a two-day event celebrating drag culture. Now in its 17th season, the TV show has grown into a global phenomenon with audiences worldwide.

Larry editing the PM. Possibly the best day any journalist has ever had at Downing Street. Ever

VIDEO: One British nonprofit has brought horseback riding to a wider audience with 450 centres around the UK helping those with extra needs get into the saddle

VIDEO: From a life-size English queen to a Roman sea god, an international fair in Birmingham is drawing cake artists from around the world to showcase their multi-tiered talents.

Thameslink train to work in London cancelled this morning. Afternoon Avanti train from Birmingham to London delayed by 29 mins. Thameslink train home from work cancelled this evening. Four trips today - one on time, one delayed and two cancelled. £75 in tickets, £750 in hassle

@AllThingsBarna Hi Sally, I'm a video journalist with AFP news agency. Would it be possible to use your video, crediting you. Many thanks, Justine

So this is fun. Birmingham Airport has been evacuated after reports of a 'suspicious vehicle’ and we’ve all been herded to the NEC.