Category: UK

Just 2% or fewer of trains on some of the busiest Avanti West Coast services between London and Manchester are leaving and arriving on time, [more…]

All state school teachers should given the right to work away from the classroom on lesson preparation, marking and pupil assessment to stem a growing [more…]

The building of a controversial 25-storey office block nicknamed the Slab on London’s South Bank is to go ahead after the high court upheld a [more…]

A 77-year-old environmental activist will spend Christmas in prison despite having been released on an electronic tag, because the authorities cannot find an electronic device [more…]

Prince William has agreed to end the last feudal restrictions on land ownership in parts of his hereditary Duchy of Cornwall estate after decades of [more…]

When, in 1998, my friend Rosemarie Everton was appointed to the UK’s first ever chair in fire law, at the University of Central Lancashire, it [more…]

Peter Mandelson is the new ambassador to the US. In a statement Keir Starmer said: I am delighted to appoint Lord Mandelson to be the [more…]

A children’s charity has rejected a Christmas donation from the archbishop of Canterbury, who resigned over the Church of England’s failures in dealing with a [more…]

A dramatic slowdown in economic growth and rising borrowing costs since the budget could undermine the government’s finances and force the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to [more…]

A man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman who was found with serious injuries at a house in Coventry. Astra [more…]