The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

Five million vapes are thrown away each week, equivalent to eight every second, according to environment minister Mary Creagh.

The King has held an audience with one of the possible contenders to become the next archbishop of Canterbury. Charles welcomed the Right Reverend Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich, to Buckingham Palace ...

The Guardian newspaper has announced it will stop posting on X, formerly Twitter, describing the social media platform as “toxic”. The news outlet wrote on its website on Wednesday that it had ...

A man beat his partner and may have slept while she died on the floor next to his bed, a court has heard. Raj Sidpara, 50, admitted the manslaughter of his partner Tarnjeet Riaz, also known as ...

Rapper Nelly will not face drug charges following his arrest this summer at a St Louis-area casino, a prosecutor said. “We don’t believe the facts in this case warrant the issuing of charges,” St ...

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has said that a woman who has accused him of raping her in a Dublin hotel is “full of lies”. Mr McGregor, who is facing an accusation in the civil ...

Frustrated captain Harry Kane has suggested some England players have forgotten the importance of representing their country following a spate of withdrawals. The Euro 2024 runners-up round off a ...

A police officer has been jailed for nine years after he sexually touched a vulnerable six-year-old girl while responding to a disturbance. Dean Dempster, 35, an officer for Greater Manchester Police ...

New flood warnings in the Málaga province of Spain have seen the UK Foreign Office update its travel advice for the country ...

The role of PAs is to support doctors in the diagnosis and management of patients, and they can be deployed across GP surgeries and hospitals.

Former soldier Daniel Khalife has denied asking Iranian agents for help after he escaped from prison. The 23-year-old told Woolwich Crown Court the Middle Eastern country’s security services wanted to ...