UK Breaking News: Local & News

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65.4K reviews
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Rated for 3+
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About this app

Breaking news from your town and from across the UK, as it happens.

UK Breaking News brings together the stories that matter where you live: police and fire incidents, road closures, weather warnings, council decisions, and the national headlines everyone is talking about.

YOUR TOWN FIRST
Choose your town and see its local news first, from cities like Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast to towns and villages across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Follow more towns to keep an eye on the places that matter to you.

ALERTS THAT MATTER
Get a notification when something important happens: breaking news, major incidents near you, road closures and official weather warnings. You choose which alerts you get.

WEATHER AND WARNINGS
Today's weather for your town, hour by hour, with official warnings for wind, rain, snow and ice.

HAVE YOUR SAY
Comment on the news, like and share stories, and see what people in your area think.

FOLLOW WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT
Follow towns, topics and sources to build your own feed. Trending shows what the whole country is reading right now, and Breaking keeps a live timeline of the latest alerts.

FREE TO USE
UK Breaking News is free. Stories come from UK newspapers, broadcasters, local news sites and official sources; tap any story to read it in full from its source. An optional membership removes the ads in the app.
Breaking news and local news from your town, with alerts and weather warnings.
Updated on
Nov 10, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location and Device or other IDs
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 2 others
  • Data isn’t encrypted
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

57.4K reviews
A Google user
October 9, 2018
I like this app, however as much as I can accept ads on an app, the volume of them on here is pushing the boundaries of tolerance. The price for the premium version is too expensive, I might be tempted with a special offer. Maybe if there was an ad blocker on the inbuilt browser, or a way to link your own browser it would be more useable. Trying to read articles on metro news source is so frustrating. People will just avoid too many ads.
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Safe Apps Inc
April 2, 2018
Thank you for your review. as you know we can not edit or modify anything in sources content, we are very sorry about that.
Rosemary Griffin
August 26, 2022
Don't waste your time on this app, it's rubbish, you can't read full articles for a few reasons. News articles are blocked by practically full blown adds for things or to subscribe to news article, other news suppliers want you to subscribe and pay a monthly fee. I just want to read a news article without this, it being blocked from reading more than a few lines without subscribing, so this free app isn't what it seems. So I've unsubscribe to it, I don't see why I should have to subscribe for s
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A Google user
July 9, 2019
Had barely opened the app, and was in the process of setting it up, and what do I get?? Yes, you guessed it... Within a minute I get a pop up asking me to rate five stars. There's a second option too... "Doesn't Deserve it." Guess which one I pressed!!?? 🤔😂🤣 When will you people ever learn not to pester for a rating before we've had a "REASONABLE" opportunity to try, and to assess?? I have to say, I took great pleasure in uninstalling immediately.
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Safe Apps Inc
July 17, 2019
That doesn't sound right! Can you give us more information at [email protected] so that we can investigate.

What’s new

Faster and lighter app. Quick access to the + membership (no ads in the app) from the app name and the profile menu. Stability fixes.