East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) has launched a volunteer recruitment campaign. The Care to Help initiative, started yesterday, aims to encourage more people to assist in its shops and Retail ...

The chair of the Royal College of GPs also told the BBC this week that doctors have “real concerns about the practical and legal implications of a change in the law on assisted dying”, which she said ...

For the second time this month, Sir Lindsay Hoyle berated ministers in the chamber for making policy announcements to the media.

Members of the Unite trade union working in the NHS have voted to accept an 8% pay increase over the next two years. The deal will see a 4.25% rise this year and a 3.75% uplift next year for staff, ...

The British endurance swimmer says ‘I’m frightened of sharks but I’m really frightened of a world without sharks’ ahead of his latest swim.

It’s clear we need to do more to improve the resilience of our transport energy infrastructure,’ Paul Kohler MP warned.

A veteran broadcast journalist has been appointed head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland. Howard Simpson, who has almost two decades of experience, will take over from Gary Smith who is ...

Transport minister Mike Kane said the Government wants to ‘maximise the benefits of future flight technologies including flying taxis’.

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins has been named as the new head of the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence said, following the earlier than expected departure of his predecessor. Royal Marine Sir Gwyn ...

Leading medics and health organisations have urged the Government to outlaw ‘the physical punishment of children’.

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year in the flat the two shared in Scotts Road, Shepherd’s Bush, west London. The ...

The announcement comes in the same week that the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats passed 12,000 for the year.