The number of suspensions in secondary schools in England has more than doubled since autumn 2019 – when there were 143,006 recorded. In state primary schools there were 37,695 suspensions in the 2023 ...

England’s hospitals were within “hours” of running out of some items of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the early months of Covid-19, Matt Hancock has said. The former health secretary told the ...

Mr McGregor is facing an accusation in the civil action that he ‘brutally raped and battered’ Nikita Hand at a hotel in south Dublin in ...

The Belfast Health Trust has been struggling to find a contractor to remove “antisemitic” graffiti from the wall of its hospital. The phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” has ...

Concerns have been raised about the care and support people receive while facing long waits in A&E. A major new survey has found that many emergency care patients felt they were not able to get help ...

More than 100 maternity cases at a scandal-hit NHS trust are being reviewed by police. Nottinghamshire Police announced a criminal investigation in September last year into concerns raised about ...

The Queen congratulated junior runner-up, 13-year-old Victor Austin Kiyaga from Uganda, on being the second pupil from his school to be placed in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition. Camilla ...

Craig Evans threw an egg at Lord Prescott who had just got off his campaign bus to speak at a Labour Party general election rally in Wales in 2001.

The Prime Minister has welcomed the Indonesian president to Downing Street. Sir Keir Starmer greeted Prabowo Subianto outside Number 10 on Thursday afternoon. Mr Subianto, who was inaugurated last ...

A woman once dubbed ‘Africa’s richest woman’, and an oligarch who extracted hundreds of millions of pounds from Ukraine, are among ...

The Have I Got News For You star said he could not believe the Archbishop of Canterbury turned up to a British Museum trustees’ dinner.

Seven-month-old Elle Doherty died after being attacked by the family’s Belgian Malinois dog at her Coventry home in June.