Category: UK

More than 130,000 people across England will benefit from workplace health checks being trialled to help protect people from preventable diseases, the government has said. [more…]

Keir Starmer has been warned against caving in to pressure to water down a ban on exploitative zero-hours contracts, after fresh evidence showing the financial [more…]

Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street, according to his biographer. Tom Baldwin said that after Starmer [more…]

The Conservative MP Esther McVey has been urged to “get a grip” after she posted a poem about the Holocaust to criticise government plans to [more…]

A series of weekend strikes by train drivers on LNER from Saturday has been called off, their trade union Aslef has announced. Passengers travelling between [more…]

Three people have died in a road collision in Anglesey (Ynys Môn), police have said. North Wales police said officers responded to reports of a [more…]

An 11-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with this summer’s riots, as police vowed to continue catching people suspected of being involved despite dwindling [more…]

A woman stabbed at the Notting Hill carnival as she tried to stop a fight is in a coma in a life-threatening condition, a court [more…]

Ministers have committed to help households struggling with their gas and electricity bills this winter after energy industry bosses warned that consumer debt had climbed [more…]

People in England are walking record distances, official figures show – but charities have said more needs to be done to get individuals on their [more…]