Improving A&E and ambulance waiting times are among the top priorities for the NHS in the year ahead, health officials have said. Hospitals have also been ordered to focus on reducing the NHS waiting ...

Ben Leonard, 16, died while on a trip to North Wales with the Reddish Explorer Scouts from Stockport, Greater Manchester, in 2018.

The number of people suffering norovirus in England’s hospitals is at its highest level this winter. New data from NHS England shows an average of 898 hospital beds were filled each day last week by ...

Nearly half a million shoplifting offences were recorded by police in England and Wales in a year, the highest 12-month total on record, figures show. A total of 492,914 offences were logged by forces ...

The decision to grant consent to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields will now be reconsidered, taking into account downstream emissions.

Lloyds Banking Group will close 61 Lloyds, 61 Halifax and 14 Bank of Scotland branches between May this year and March ...

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has remembered the oldest and youngest victims of the atrocity. The Real IRA bomb attack on August ...

Rahamim Shy, 47, travelled to Bedfordshire from New York in February last year to have sex with the girl after more than a ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings in his bid to become US health secretary have begun in Washington, DC. As he ...

The EA has lifted objections to new housing in Cambridge, while a new reservoir will provide long-term supplies to the ...

Weinstein, 72, is being treated for numerous health conditions, including chronic myeloid leukaemia, heart issues and ...

To get to the US Senate for a vote on his nomination to be US health secretary, Mr Kennedy needs to have two committee ...