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The MHRA and HRA's largest regulatory overhaul in 20 years went live April 28, introducing notifiable trials, a 14-day automatic-approval modification route, and mandatory transparency for UK studies.

British and Norwegian forces tracked an Akula-class attack submarine and two GUGI deep-sea research vessels operating near critical undersea cable infrastructure north of the UK for over a month before the Russian fleet withdrew.

The UK government is redesigning data.gov.uk after finding a quarter of its links broken, shifting from uncurated volume to a curated, AI-ready service as part of a 1.9 billion pound digital push.