A Filipino clinical nurse and a town councilor in the United Kingdom were honored last week for their special contribution to the British society.

Hoping to help increase their chances of making it to the 2012 London Olympics, the United Kingdom (UK) has provided scholarship funds to 14 Filipino athletes.

Exceptionally talented Filipinos in the humanities, arts, sciences and engineering now have the opportunity to work in and possibly settle in the United Kingdom.

Exceptionally talented Filipinos in the humanities, arts, sciences and engineering now have the opportunity to work in and possibly settle in the United Kingdom.

Philippine officials in the United Kingdom on Thursday provided hotline numbers for Filipinos who were affected by drifting ash from the Grimsvötn volcano in Iceland.

The British Embassy in the Philippines may offer limited services due to a consular training program from May 9 to 20.

The Philippine Embassy in London held another consular outreach mission at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Headquarters in Cardiff, Wales this month.

The United Kingdom (UK) will tighten the issuance of student visas because many foreigners, including Filipinos, are allegedly misusing it to gain employment in Britain.

The Philippine Embassy in London advised Filipinos in the United Kingdom, especially those who plan to work or study there, of recent changes in the Points-Based System of Immigration (PBS) effective this April.

A Filipino nurse in the United Kingdom who was previously convicted for having sex with a minor was again sentenced to jail for a total of nine years for allegedly raping a female patient and sexually assaulting another in Oxford, according to reports in the British press.