Software group Kainos saw its profit more than double in the last year, boosted in no small part by its hospitals business. The Belfast-based company said it had seen good
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Covid-19 infection has a distinct smell that can be detected by specially trained dogs with up to 94% accuracy, UK research suggests. The findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed,
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spoken to recovering drug addicts who have returned to the streets to help support those who have suffered near-fatal overdoses. William and Kate
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New pilot schemes are being launched across England in a bid to encourage people to get tested for Covid-19 and follow self-isolation rules. The pilots will involve increased social care
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Forcing care workers to have a coronavirus vaccine is likely to backfire because they could still turn down a jab if they have been threatened or not given advice by
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All unregulated accommodation for 16 and 17-year-olds who are leaving care will have to meet a national standard under new proposals. The aim, included in a Government consultation launched on
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The number of Scottish prisoners on remand has grown by more than a third during the pandemic due to delays in criminal trials, campaigners have warned. The Howard League charity
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A serial paedophile who forged references as an au pair to abuse more than 20 children has had his “unduly lenient” jail sentence increased to a minimum of 12 years
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A major supplier of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Covid-19 testing kits is in dispute with the Government over a £150 million contract. Novacyt developed one of the UK’s first coronavirus
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Coronavirus care home death statistics were unlawfully kept secret by a department of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Information Commissioner has ruled. National Records of Scotland (NRS), an agency of
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