A charity founded by the late former Scotland rugby star Doddie Weir has raised more than £18 million for motor neurone ...

Overall shop prices are now 0.6 cheaper than a year ago, but have risen from October’s 0.8 cheaper, according to the BRC and ...

A legal challenge over whether trans women can be regarded as female for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act begins at the UK Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The UK’s world-leading climate law has had a “transformative” effect on fighting global warming, but progress is now at risk, a report warns. In a report launched to mark the 16th anniversary of the ...

“Despite a wealth of wider training, most practitioners working with children across social work, policing, education and health won’t even get a single day of training focused on child sexual abuse ...

More than a million illicit vapes were seized in England by trading standards in 2023-24, a 59% increase on the previous year. The products failed to meet basic UK safety standards, with most ...

Places with the highest levels of joblessness will get extra NHS support as the Government bids to “get Britain working again”. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will announce the plans on ...

More flooding is “likely” this week after Storm Bert brought torrential rain over the weekend, the Environment Secretary said. Steve Reed said its impacts “should be less severe” than they were on ...

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill prevents anyone born after January 1 2009 from legally smoking by gradually raising the age at which tobacco can ...

Shoppers have been warned that price rises are “inevitable” as a 17-month run of falling shop inflation came to an end in November.

Almost 4,000 adults contacted the NSPCC Helpline with concerns about children experiencing domestic abuse in the first six months of 2024/25 ...