Passenger train services were delayed by the equivalent of more than 100 days in a year due to lorries hitting bridges, new figures show. Network Rail said 1,532 bridge strikes were reported in ...

Researchers said that while access to mental health services has risen, the health system continues to struggle to keep pace with demand.

Nearly one million workers in Britain’s jobs market have been “lost” because of poor and unreliable official data and the rate of UK unemployment and inactivity may have been overstated, a think tank ...

A brown bear in Kent who underwent pioneering, life-saving brain surgery in October has made a “very encouraging” recovery after six weeks of rehabilitation. Boki became the first brown bear on record ...

The advertising watchdog has banned ads for five gold dealers for failing to make clear that the investments are unregulated and their value could vary. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ...

Commuters face widespread travel disruption on Wednesday morning after parts of the UK saw heavy snowfall and ice. The Met Office put in place a yellow warning for ice for much of southern England, ...

A ban on social media for under-16s is “on the table” if companies do not take action to protect children, the Technology Secretary has said. Peter Kyle made the warning while preparing to tell Ofcom ...

Experts said that ‘cardiorespiratory fitness’ could be used as a predictor for thinking and memory problems in older age.

Unlike last month’s success, the booster was not caught with giant mechanical arms but was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

Non-crime hate incidents should only be investigated by police where there is “a real risk of imminent criminality”, the shadow home secretary will say. Chris Philp will use a speech at a major ...

Richard Flanagan, who won the Booker Prize for fiction in 2014, has become the first author in history to achieve the “unprecedented double” after being named the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he has “no plans” to join the Bluesky social media platform. The Prime Minister told reporters that “at the moment” there are no plans to establish official Government ...