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Liz Kendall urged by online safety figures to hand job to Jeremy Wright ahead of Labour grandee Margaret HodgeMinisters are facing pressure to appoint a former Conservative cabinet minister as the new chair of the media regulator Ofcom, as he battles f…
Number fell 23% year on year in 2025 but waste companies say recycling systems still under strain from sheer volumeMore than 6m vapes and vape pods are still being discarded every week in the UK, with waste management companies warning the sheer volume…
Ministers urged to work with survivor groups on formal apology as many victims are nearing end of their livesThe UK government must urgently issue a formal apology for the state’s role in forced adoption as many victims are nearing the end of their liv…
Keir Starmer promises help for parents in limiting children’s online activity as government issues guidance to families Children under five should spend no more than an hour a day on screens, new government advice says.Screen time for children under tw…
BMA’s decision to withdraw from talks with government and NHS chiefs has sparked a war of wordsNHS bosses have accused resident doctors of seeking to cause “maximum harm” to patients by striking for six days next month over pay and jobs.Wes Streeting h…
Research suggested resurgence in Christianity, especially among young people, but some respondents found to be fraudulentA YouGov survey showing a significant rise in church attendance in parts of the UK has been withdrawn after some respondents were f…
Ministers not on course to meet their objectives, including to shift power from Whitehall to local areas, says IfGKeir Starmer’s drive to overhaul public services is failing to live up to its aims of shifting power from Whitehall to local areas, a repo…
About 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 29% in England as a wholeLondon has England’s highest levels of child poverty and most extreme concentrations of hardship, data has revealed. In two boroughs more than half of chil…
Noelia Castillo, 25, a paraplegic, had suffered from psychiatric illness and lived in constant painA Spanish woman who spent months fighting her father for the right to euthanasia after being sexually assaulted and becoming paraplegic has finally ended…
Shaine March killed Alana Odysseos after being released on licence for killing a teenager in 2000A man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend after being released from prison on licence must spend the rest of his life in jail, the court of appeal has rul…