Only 0.002% of potential claimants to the infected blood compensation scheme have been invited to seek payouts and “many will die” while they wait, a lawyer representing families and victims of the ...

The Church’s General Synod gathered on Monday for the first time since the resignation of Justin Welby following safeguarding failures.

Farmers protested in Whitehall and Parliament Square on Monday, blasting their horns to tunes including Old MacDonald Had A Farm.

Sir David Davis said last week’s coroner’s report into the Coalisland shootings was ’51 pages of fact and eight pages of naive speculation’.

Health bosses have been urged to tackle bed blocking and long emergency department waits in hospitals by a coroner, who warned that there is a “risk of future deaths unless something is done”. It ...

The next exchange, scheduled for Saturday, called for three more Israeli hostages to be freed in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Thousands of jobs in the North Sea are being put at risk because the Government is driven by “zealotry”, the Conservatives have said. Shadow environment minister Andrew Bowie said the Government will ...

An internal hospital report over the death of a newborn girl was “like night and day” compared to the findings of an independent probe which identified numerous failings in her delivery care, an ...

Sir Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author did not even try to fight back, a prosecutor said during opening statements of ...

A transgender doctor told NHS managers of intent to use female changing room facilities and denied that using them despite the discomfort of a female nurse was “bullying and harassment”, an employment ...

A student killed in the Omagh bombing was a year out from graduating at Dundee University when she died, a public inquiry has heard. A statement from the twin brother of Julia Hughes said they had ...

Oliver Ryan, who was elected to represent the Burnley constituency last summer, had been under investigation over the remarks.