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Cancer treatment waiting times fall to their worst performance on re...

Figures from Health Protection Scotland show 71.7% of patients started treatment within the 62-day target.

Number of bed days lost to delayed discharge increases by 8% in one...

A total of 51,732 bed days were lost in February.

Labour vows to make fly-tippers clean up as rubbish dumped 3,000 tim...

The party is portraying itself as tough on crime as it hopes to snap up votes in May’s local elections.

Sir Keir Starmer urges students to keep career options open

Sir Keir talked to students at Burnley College planning careers, including in sports training, the police, journalism and social work.

NHS leaders broadly welcome Patricia Hewitt’s review of healthcare

The review says adding new targets and initiatives and not being consistent with funding makes it impossible to plan new services and recruit staff.

A&E four-hour target missed for a third of patients, figures show

Statistics released by Public Health Scotland show only 63.4% of those that attended A&E in the week of March 26 were seen within the target time.

Government’s antisocial behaviour measures ‘not making any differenc...

Labour and the Conservatives are ramping up commitments on law and order ahead of the May local elections.

Parts of Good Friday Agreement still not realised say Women’s Coalit...

Some elements of the historic peace deal have still not been put in place after a quarter of a century, ex-members of the now defunct party said.

Just Stop Oil activists guilty of public nuisance over Dartford Cros...

Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker used ropes and other climbing equipment to shuffle up the cables of the bridge, Basildon Crown Court had heard.

Halving social care workforce funding a ‘betrayal’, say charities an...

The Government has been accused of a ‘smoke and mirrors attempt to sow confusion bundling these cuts alongside pre-announced funding’.

Ministers accused of ‘failing in duties’ to make public aware of vot...

Labour branded the plans ‘expensive’ and ‘unnecessary’ while the Electoral Reform Society warned they could hinder young voters.

Homelessness campaigner Fr Peter McVerry warns of oncoming ‘tsunami...

More than 4,300 notices to quit were recorded in the final three months of 2022.

Paramilitaries exploiting young people 25 years on from Good Friday...

The issue of drug-related deaths among the so-called ceasefire generation remains a concern, an expert warned.

Donaldson has ‘no regrets’ on walk out from Good Friday Agreement ne...

The then UUP MP refused to back the proposed early release of paramilitary prisoners without firm commitments on decommissioning terrorist weapons.

Raab urged to fast-track plans to force criminals to attend sentenci...

Farah Naz made the comments after Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s killer, Thomas Cashman, refused to face the youngster’s family in court.

Conservationists create reef which will be home to 30,000 oysters

The reef will be laid in the river Hamble in Hampshire as part of a five-year scheme to reverse the loss of the area’s oyster fishery industry.

Tributes continue from Tory grandees following death of Nigel Lawson

Former prime minister Sir John Major said Baron Lawson of Blaby will be ‘long remembered’.

Finland to become Nato member in Brussels ceremony

Finland shares an 832-mile border with Russia, so its entry will more than double the size of Nato’s border with Russia.

One dead and 19 in hospital after Dutch train derails in crane crash

The passenger train and a freight train both hit the crane that was being used to carry out maintenance work.

Scientist ‘couldn’t believe’ discovery of rare shark on Irish shore

The 14ft female smalltooth sand tiger shark is at the upper end of the size limits for the species.