Firefighters were scrambled to the Rivington Belmont area just after 8pm after receiving a number of phone calls from members of the public. A number of roads have been closed off and the fire service ...

The National Audit Office identified problems at UK Research and Innovation, an arm’s length body considered key to Government priorities.

The children’s charity has published new research on what it says are the dangers women and girls face online.

The Royal Society for Public Health found that 53 of the public said their local high street did not have enough shops selling healthy food.

A survey by the RCN of 3,000 migrant nurses found more than four in 10 internationally educated nurses are planning to leave the country.

Kim Leadbeater said she is ‘pleased’ that MSPs backed the general principles of assisted dying as psychiatrists raised ‘serious ...

Counter-terrorism officers are working ‘at pace’ to establish the cause of the fires and ‘any potential motivation’, Scotland Yard said.

Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney said some victims of rape and sexual assault had been charged up to £22,000 for the transcripts.

Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of Belle and Sebastian, will join campaigners to call for urgent action on ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis). He and other people with the condition, which is also known ...

An AI tool called Consult has been tested as a way of speeding up the analysis of public responses to consultations.