The Government is suing two companies for more than £140 million after they allegedly supplied Covid-19 test kits which “failed at an unacceptable rate”, the High Court has heard. The
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The number of children living in temporary accommodation has reached another record high, while people needing help for homelessness due to no-fault evictions has also reached a new peak. A
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A jealous ex-partner who murdered a mother of two in front of her children has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years. Obert Moyo, 46, attacked Perseverance “Percy” Ncube,
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Steps to ensure harassment victims can have malicious complaints made against them scratched from the record have been promised by the Government in the face of a Tory-led rebellion. The
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Thousands of asylum seekers earmarked by the Home Office for deportation to Rwanda have lost contact with the department, a Government document suggests. Out of 5,700 people identified for removal,
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Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, blasted politicians as “dysfunctional bastards” in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Fractious exchanges at Stormont were detailed during the
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The number of foreign care workers applying for a visa to come to the UK fell by a quarter in six months. Health and care visa applications covering 153,500 people
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Changing the law to legalise assisted dying could see people killed because they are old, an at-times emotional parliamentary debate has heard, while others rejected a picture painted of a
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A police constable who punched a medical worker after mistaking him for a suspect has been spared jail. Metropolitan Police officer Jonathan Marsh, 34, was called to a medical clinic
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A watchdog has criticised “unacceptable” conditions at the busiest airport immigration detention centre in England and Wales. Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said the facility in Luton was “unable
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