Category: UK

MPs have written to Wes Streeting, the health secretary, asking for his action plan to help the 14 hospitals declaring critical incidents under winter pressure. [more…]

An England-wide amber health alert has been extended to Tuesday as temperatures are expected to continue to fall over the weekend. The UK Health Security [more…]

Concerns over the UK government’s borrowing costs were revived on Friday after stronger-than expected US jobs figures triggered volatile conditions in global financial markets. In [more…]

Police searching for two sisters who disappeared in Aberdeen three days ago are working with officers in Hungary to find them. The public have been [more…]

The Conservatives have been accused of “bottling” the local elections after 13 Tory-led county councils in England said they were asking for a delay to [more…]

Jeremy Hunt has said ministers took “too long” to introduce medical examiners to investigate deaths in the NHS, as he apologised to the families of [more…]

11.58am.) Asked about the letter at the morning lobby briefing, the PM’s spokesperson said: I am not sure I have seen the detail of the [more…]

A murder investigation is under way in Spain after the body of a 37-year-old man from Northern Ireland was found three weeks after he went [more…]

Mick Lynch has said he will retire as general secretary of the RMT union, after four years during which he became perhaps the most recognisable [more…]