Covid: Latest Greater Manchester talks end with no agreementA meeting between ministers and local leaders about Greater Manchester’s Covid restrictions has ended without agreement, the government…Oct 19, 2020Oct 19, 2020
Endometriosis care needs urgent improvement, MPs sayEndometriosis care across the UK needs urgent improvement and diagnosis times need to be cut in half, a report by MPs says.Oct 19, 2020Oct 19, 2020
Coronavirus: People to get emergency help to pay energy billsEnergy regulator Ofgem is introducing new rules from 15 December to help vulnerable customers who struggle to pay their energy bills this…Oct 19, 2020Oct 19, 2020
Shops and police in stand-off over enforcing mask wearingRetailers say it is up to the police to enforce rules on face coverings in shops, as the government seeks to encourage mask wearing in a…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Covid: Two-week circuit breaker ‘may halve deaths’, report saysA two-week circuit breaker at the end of October may halve Covid deaths in the UK between now and the end of the year, says a scientific…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
New MI5 chief says UK facing ‘nasty mix’ of threatsBritain is facing a “nasty mix” of national security threats, from hostile state activity by Russia and China to fast-growing right-wing…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
How Australia-China tensions have hit ‘lowest ebb in decades’Tensions between Australia and China have recently read like the edge-of-your-seat part of a geopolitical thriller; no-one knows exactly…Oct 11, 2020Oct 11, 2020
Covid-19: Lockdown breach fines rise while some make bogus reportsPolice have been called to more than 500 incidents of Covid-19 rule breaches in Newcastle in the past two weeks.Oct 11, 2020Oct 11, 2020
Bryanboy: Controversy grows over restaurant’s ‘racist’ postersAs coronavirus has spread around the world, people of Asian heritage have reported facing greater hostility.Oct 11, 2020Oct 11, 2020
Alone and in pain: one woman’s struggle for breastfeeding supportHannah Wheeler suffered for five months before eventually finding her own solutionOct 4, 2020Oct 4, 2020
