Category: UK

A damp squib of a summer has abruptly ended in an appropriately biblical fashion, after intense thunderstorms swept the UK over the weekend with severe [more…]

Breast cancer patients who continue to smoke after having radiotherapy are at much higher risk of their treatment causing them lung cancer in the future, [more…]

No 10 is braced for a potential defeat in a Labour conference vote to condemn cuts to the winter fuel allowance, as major trade unions [more…]

A Polish man who has lived in the UK since he was seven has been granted a last-minute reprieve after facing deportation because officials said [more…]

Civil servants were told to rewrite a proposed social media campaign to combat drink-spiking after the original appeared to blame victims, a minister has told [more…]

A weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy showers is in force across much of southern England and Wales. The Met Office says damage to buildings [more…]

A division of the publisher of the Economist has been forced to cancel a high-profile cancer conference at the last minute amid a backlash from [more…]

Interest rates may have been kept on hold this week, but the direction of travel is clearly downwards, with savers being urged to check the [more…]

Grammar schools in England have been ordered to publish details about their admissions tests, which campaigners say will expose them to greater scrutiny and potential [more…]

Shopping at a local convenience store can cost you up to a fifth more than buying the same items at larger branches of the supermarket [more…]