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United Kingdom Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 502968,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0164f722c62a226b7e59e3ae3ce41f15",
            "title": "Driver jailed over dad's 'senseless' Christmas death in Blackburn",
            "description": "James Ward reversed over Kirk Marsden in a 4x4 outside a Lancashire pub on Christmas Day in 2024.",
            "content": "A driver who deliberately tried to mow a man down outside a Lancashire pub on Christmas Day before reversing over him in what police called a \"senseless act of violence\" has been jailed for 13 years.\nKirk Marsden, 37, was struck outside The Gate Bar ... [1850 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9gvzledyko",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/011d/live/4d8bd5e0-c76c-11ef-b5ea-e7f0609bc93f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T22:58:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "413776be755c92b45952180b7b7c4c3d",
            "title": "Police block road as protesters gather after Edinburgh double murder bid",
            "description": "Demonstrators have gathered near to where the alleged attacker was arrested by armed police",
            "content": "Police have closed a road in Edinburgh after anti-migrant protesters gathered in the wake of a double murder bid.\nFirearms officers locked down the Calders area of the city on Monday after receiving reports of a man brandishing a “bladed weapon”.\nTwo... [1456 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.stv.tv/east-central/police-block-road-as-protesters-gather-after-edinburgh-double-murder-bid",
            "image": "https://news.stv.tv/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/905f4de8f77543fc0fc1a94c3bc706e6-1772828589-social-default.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T22:37:04Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "47bdcb03aa1ab49074770ad673d4e5d6",
                "name": "STV News",
                "url": "https://news.stv.tv"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b58203bc4f1c52b03fe6f2ccde9a9fba",
            "title": "London man charged with manslaughter in case that links alleged domestic abuse to suicide",
            "description": "Gillian Morand, 36, died in Bexley, south-east London in 2020 after which allegations against her husband emerged",
            "content": "A man has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a woman in 2020, in a rare prosecution of alleged domestic abuse linked to suicide, police have said.\nGillian Morand, 36, died in Bexley, south-east London, and an inquest concluded she had t... [1571 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/06/london-man-charged-manslaughter-gillian-morand-suicide",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f19394ccaa5eae68a81d74c587dd4c08299c10d1/47_8_570_456/master/570.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=039a6c5db71b8d40a8a3ab8b59f3b677",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T22:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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