The UK’s leading health organisations are demanding an end to the abuse endured by healthcare workers during the pandemic, and are calling on the public to join them. Their stance
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The Government is proposing to make a life-saving medicine that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose more widely available to frontline staff who have regular contact with drug
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A “wicked” rapist whose 13-year-old victim became pregnant in the 1970s has been jailed decades after the crime, following a successful prosecution pursued by his victim’s daughter. Carvel Bennett (pictured),
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Boris Johnson has snubbed an invitation from Nicola Sturgeon to meet during his visit to Scotland this week. The Scottish First Minister had invited Mr Johnson to meet at her
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Drug-related deaths in England and Wales have risen for the eighth year in a row and remain at their highest level in more than a quarter of a century, figures
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Public transport users are being encouraged chat to someone if they suspect something is not right, as part of a nationwide suicide prevention campaign. As coronavirus restrictions ease and more
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A hospital consultant has hailed the development of new hoods for medical staff as a “real game-changer”. The full-face protective hood, which has a large, clear visor and can be
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Most of Scotland’s remaining coronavirus restrictions are to be scrapped from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed, in what she hailed as “perhaps the most significant date so far” in the
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A “handsome and clever” five-year-old boy found dead in a river in South Wales has been named as Logan Mwangi. The body of the youngster was found in the Ogmore
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A shielding four-year-old is to help front a Scottish charity’s national summer fundraising appeal after overcoming the lockdown “struggle” last year. Anya Behl (pictured) has a rare condition called alternating
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