Category: UK

British Steel is to deploy emergency measures in a race against time to save the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, as the business secretary refused to [more…]

Drivers heading off for Easter getaways face a “hat-trick of hold-ups” as the four-day weekend coincides with the end of the holidays for many schools. [more…]

Patients with an advanced type of skin melanoma in England will be given fast-track access to a “revolutionary” new cancer vaccine as part of an [more…]

Office-based military specialists have been called in to deal with the mounting piles of rubbish on the streets of Birmingham after a month-long strike by [more…]

The union representing prison officers has said inmates should be banned from cooking in jail, with staff fearing copycat incidents after the brother of the [more…]

Proposals to save British Steel’s Scunthorpe blast furnaces have been granted royal assent after an extraordinary parliament sitting on Saturday. Emergency legislation giving the government [more…]

British Steel to keep the plant open passed both the Commons and Lords in a single day unopposed. The TUC has welcomed the move, describing [more…]

Davina McCall announced that her benign brain tumour “is not coming back” after recent MRI scans. The former Big Brother presenter had surgery in November [more…]

Tourists from Great Britain who travel to the continent to satisfy their epicurean desires for cured meats and fragrant cheeses will be frustrated in their [more…]

Only a quarter of staff at Cambridge University are satisfied with how their department tackles bullying and harassment, according to an internal survey seen by [more…]