Category: UK

Striking junior doctors no longer have public’s backing, Wes Streeting says

The health secretary’s intervention marks a drastic shift in tone after he brought months of strike action to an end last year by handing doctors a 22 per cent pay rise within weeks of entering office

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Demonstrators arrested over protests at new Gal Gadot film set

Police say protesters have disrupted filming at various locations in recent weeks

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‘Game of Thrones-style families’ behind 2,000-year-old Dorset massacre

The Maiden Castle skeletons were first unearthed in 1936 with ‘skulls smashed to oblivion’

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‘Little Lady’ snow leopard cub revealed to the world for first time

Ambassador for The Big Cat Sanctuary, Paul Hollywood, said he ‘cannot wait’ to meet the new cub

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British holidaymaker attacked by shark during morning swim ‘thought she would die’

Rachel Smith had emergency surgery and hopes to regain full movement in 18 months time

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Scientists fear Britain’s entire food chain is contaminated as study finds microplastics in bugs

Researchers say study of insects in Sussex first to find plastics ‘consistently turning up across an entire community of land invertebrates’

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Health Secretary tells doctors to help ‘rebuild our NHS’ amid strike action ballot

A recent poll found 48 per cent of Britons oppose resident doctors striking, while 39 per cent support such action

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Mother dragged by car at Liverpool parade feared baby son had died after pram was flung 15ft down road

Exclusive: Sheree Aldridge feared for the worst after she was struck by the Ford Galaxy vehicle while pushing her six-month-old baby in a pram in Water Street during the Liverpool FC victory parade

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Scientists ask public to look out for England’s only mountain butterfly

Conservationists say the butterfly is so hard to find in England that it is not known whether its numbers are increasing or decreasing

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Liverpool parade crash suspect is ‘married businessman and father-of-three’

Neighbours have said his arrest is ‘completely out of character’

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