Exclusive: Admission comes in testimony in case of woman waiting more than four years for appointmentA single mother of six children has been waiting four years and four months to see a consultant for suspected multiple sclerosis in Northern Ireland as…
UK’s largest purpose-built village for rough sleepers planned in Manchester
Embassy Village will provide 40 purpose-built pods underneath railway arches in desirable Castlefield district Plans are under way to build the UK’s largest village for rough sleepers in one of Manchester’s most desirable neighbourhoods. Embassy Villag…
Salisbury train crash: ‘detailed and forensic’ investigation begins
Investigators trying to establish cause of collision between two trains that left 13 people needing treatmentRail investigators are urgently trying to establish the cause of a collision between two trains that led to at least 13 people needing hospita…
France has 48 hours to back down in fishing row, warns Liz Truss
Foreign secretary says UK will begin dispute talks set out in Brexit deal if threats not withdrawnThe UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned France it has 48 hours to back down on threats made in the row over fishing licences or the UK will begin…
Is this a watershed moment when it comes to sewage in England’s rivers and seas? | Rachel Salvidge
After a public outcry, the Tories are realising that effluent-dumping water companies need more than a ticking offThe groundswell of disgust over water firms dumping raw human sewage into England’s rivers and seas has grown into a roiling tsunami threa…
How to start investing safely and profitably
Once you’ve got your head round the fees, putting spare cash into shares could bring big rewardsInflation is running at 3.1%, and finding a savings account paying above that is impossible. But many experts claim you can reasonably expect investments to…
Kathleen Stock’s departure shows universities can’t cope with argument | Rachel Cooke
Sadly, the philosopher’s resignation from Sussex is a victory for the bullies and anti-intellectualsHow profoundly depressing to hear that the philosopher Kathleen Stock has effectively been hounded from her chair at Sussex University by the mob. Howev…
Prince Andrew asks US judge to dismiss lawsuit alleging sexual abuse
Duke of York says Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of forcing her to have sex when she was 17, is seeking a ‘payday’ at his expenseIn a filing asking a US judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit in which he is accused of sexually abusing a woman when she was…
The Queen is ‘on very good form’ says Boris Johnson
Prime minister’s comments come after news that doctors advised the monarch to rest for two weeksBoris Johnson has said the Queen is “on very good form” after speaking to her this week.The prime minister’s comments come after it was announced on Friday …
Student ‘still feels vulnerable on nights out’ five years after alleged spiking
Polly Sutherland, now 24, says Lancaster University student union did not take her claim seriously in 2016A former art student who had to use a walking stick and lost the use of her hand for weeks after she believes she was spiked has said she still fe…