News from UK
42 news articles from publishers in UK, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is landlordknowledge.co.uk with 14 articles, 33.3% of the total, followed by www.intersecmag.co.uk, foodnetwork.co.uk. By language it splits into English (42). Daily volume averages about 3 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 11 on 2026-09-17. This is a small slice — 42 articles against 41,723,806 in the whole index. Expect gaps: a quiet day here may mean nothing was published, or simply that nothing was captured. Widen it by dropping to a broader filter, or combine several related slices in one query with a comma-separated list.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UK&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=UK&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting UK articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UK&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-20T09:00 | Everything you need to know about Legally Blonde | www.londontheatredirect.com |
2026-10-19T12:30 | Lyn Gardner's Weekly Picks | www.londontheatredirect.com |
2026-09-23T15:33 | Menzies flags £18.5m SDLT gap in six-home rule | landlordknowledge.co.uk |
2026-09-23T11:59 | Propertymark urges licence-fee reporting as costs top £1,000 | landlordknowledge.co.uk |
2026-09-23T08:22 | Beauchamp: prime London house rents jump 67% | landlordknowledge.co.uk |
2026-09-22T23:46 | HomeLet: over-70 renters spend 46.8% of income on rent | landlordknowledge.co.uk |
2026-09-22T14:51 | MHCLG: councils spend £2.93bn on temporary accommodation | landlordknowledge.co.uk |
2026-09-22T09:39 | Telford Council withdraws £1,500-plus HMO licensing plan | landlordknowledge.co.uk |
Who publishes it
The 8 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
landlordknowledge.co.uk | 14 | 33.3% | query |
www.intersecmag.co.uk | 14 | 33.3% | query |
foodnetwork.co.uk | 6 | 14.3% | query |
www.meltwater.com | 3 | 7.1% | query |
www.londontheatredirect.com | 2 | 4.8% | query |
johnhaywoodwatercolours.co.uk | 1 | 2.4% | query |
thesecretflorist.co.uk | 1 | 2.4% | query |
www.citizensadvicedaventryanddistrict.co.uk | 1 | 2.4% | query |
Languages published in UK
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| en | English | 42 | 100.0% |
Domain zones used by UK publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-20 | 1 | |
2026-10-19 | 1 | |
2026-09-23 | 3 | |
2026-09-22 | 4 | |
2026-09-21 | 4 | |
2026-09-17 | 11 | |
2026-09-13 | 1 | |
2026-09-09 | 2 | |
2026-09-08 | 2 | |
2026-09-03 | 7 | |
2026-08-31 | 1 | |
2026-08-18 | 5 |
Combine with other filters
# UK, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UK&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# UK, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UK&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# UK, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=UK&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"