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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": 408174,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "cf3785176961b918ac435bc6c65c5999",
            "title": "M25 collision and vehicle fire causes congestion in Essex",
            "description": "National Highways says emergency services are attending the scene.",
            "content": "Motorists are being warned of several miles of congestion after a collision and vehicle fire on the M25 in Essex.\nNational Highways said traffic had been stopped, external on the anti-clockwise carriageway between junction 29, at Romford, and junctio... [288 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6z8qv91yno",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/6986/live/94957e30-b494-11f0-88c2-2f88d87ba8c9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-29T07:12:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cf2e03a1ef9032e79d0c02d9dedb0153",
            "title": "Kinahan enforcer’s bulletproof mansion & drug lord’s manor disguised as a FARM shed… UK's gangster homes map revealed",
            "description": "FROM council estate tower blocks and dingy terraced houses to luxury penthouse apartments and sprawling country mansions, Britain’s criminal...",
            "content": "FROM council estate tower blocks and dingy terraced houses to luxury penthouse apartments and sprawling country mansions, Britain’s criminal underworld network has a home in every corner of the land.\nEven the most unassuming properties have been foun... [9742 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37148363/britain-gangster-home-map-revealed/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/newspress-collage-9aj59hxus-1761669032656.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&1761669035&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-29T07:06:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8312b3960d99553247ab475ee7eeed9a",
                "name": "The Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b6536b86244f9c92803cc83dcee11ad8",
            "title": "HMRC pauses child benefit crackdown after 23,500 families caught up in data error",
            "description": "Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK",
            "content": "The UK tax authorities have announced they will no longer cut off parents’ child benefit payments after a new crackdown on overseas fraud backfired due to incomplete Home Office travel data.\nThe flawed data led to HMRC suspending 23,500 payments in r... [3950 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/29/hmrc-pauses-child-benefit-crackdown-after-23500-families-caught-up-in-data-error",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/948d8b14da314ceddcb8b4f473ddd22501973c02/560_0_2509_2008/master/2509.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=e417782ac6592f2f9b804d96b6e66822",
            "publishedAt": "2025-10-29T07:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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