The holy oil, chrism, which will be used to anoint King Charles III during his coronation on 6 May has been consecrated at a ceremony in...
MPs are demanding action to make brain tumour research a “critical priority”, after a landmark report showed child survival rates have remained unchanged for decades. Derek...
Three lifeboats were despatched from Kent to a ferry in the English Channel after a fire broke out on board. The Isle of Innisfree was around...
“You’ve heard of ‘tree-huggers’ protecting woodlands, We ‘bog-trotters’ love the wetlands.” The words of agile ecologist Andrew McBride, from the Land and Habitats consultancy, as he...
National ambulance strikes have been suspended after GMB and Unison agreed to talks with the government. The GMB union said there had been a “huge shift”...
A couple have been charged with the manslaughter of a baby girl called Victoria, a court has heard. The child’s body was found wrapped in a...
Tens of thousands of elderly people have died without getting the care they need, according to a charity which is calling for more social care resources....
Boris Johnson says he believed “implicitly” that he was following COVID rules after a committee of MPs said it would have been “obvious” the rules were being...
Evidence strongly suggests it would have been “obvious” to Boris Johnson COVID rules were being breached at Downing Street gatherings he attended, an inquiry into whether...
A couple have been charged with the manslaughter of a baby girl called Victoria, a court has heard. The child’s body was found wrapped in a...
Anne Marie started drinking as a teenager. Then three decades later, her addiction brought her to the brink of death. “I got really sick and was...
Russians in the UK have been subjected to violent assaults, threats and vandalism in the last year, as new figures suggest a surge in hate crime...
Norovirus levels across the UK are “the highest we have seen at this time of year in over a decade”, a doctor at the UK Health...
The journalist who leaked Matt Hancock’s lockdown WhatsApp messages has said the public are only interested in what happened – not in her or the former...
Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice have been issued for parts of Scotland and the North East for Monday and Tuesday. The Met Office is...
Energy suppliers have been asked to prepare for government support to households to be maintained at the current level in April, ahead of a final decision...
Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses will join Sir Elton John in headlining this year’s Glastonbury Festival, meaning all the top-billed acts will be male. The...
A couple have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter after the remains of a baby were found in Brighton. Constance Marten, 35, and Mark Gordon, 48,...
The security services were guilty of “a significant missed opportunity to take action that might have prevented” the Manchester Arena bombing, according to the chairman of...
A woman who shouted and waved aggressively at a cyclist on the pavement, causing her to fall into the path of a car, has been jailed...