Two environmental organisations have been granted permission for a legal challenge on the Rosebank and Jackdaw offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea. Greenpeace UK and Uplift’s legal grounds ...

Experts are calling for evidence on the health impact of plastics to be placed at the core of any UN treaty agreed at final talks in November.

Zara Aleena’s murderer has refused to appear in court for a hearing over an alleged “inappropriate relationship” with a prison workshop instructor. Jordan McSweeney, 31, failed to appear via video ...

Some 2.79 million people are estimated to have been economically inactive in May-July 2024 due to long-term sickness. This is up from 2.71 million in the same period a year earlier and 2.05 million in ...

The member-owned mutual has spent £18 million so far this year on measures to help protect staff in its food business.

The first black woman to compete for Great Britain at the Olympic Games has embraced her role as a sporting trailblazer as she was made an MBE. Anita Neil competed in the women’s 100 metres and 4 x ...

The deaths of Child O and Child P on successive days in 2016 led to the removal of the nurse from the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.

More than half a million people are missing out on £2,000 they have left unclaimed in Child Trust Funds, HMRC have warned ...

Firefighters and police evacuated residents on Tuesday at Billing Aquadrome holiday park, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service said.

Workers have voted overwhelmingly to accept pay offers from train companies and Network Rail. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) backed a one-year rise of 4.5% at Network Rail (NR ...

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have been duped by the recent ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ trend on Instagram. The trend comes as Meta, which also owns Facebook, makes changes to its privacy policies, ...

David Garland, 39, and Jack Rance, 28, both of no fixed abode, have now been charged with murdering Mr Wheeler along with Mark Roberts, 38, and Reuben Clare, 18, both of Yeovil. The four defendants ...