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Royal Mail’s failure to meet delivery targets is a long term problem due to a recruitment crisis, the postal workers’ union has warned..

Voting Scottish Conservative on the peach ballot is the “secret weapon” to remove the SNP from power, Russell Findlay will say..

Low-cost natural solutions such as creating wetlands are needed to help make the UK “climate ready” to cope with increasingly extreme weather, a leading insurer has said..

A new trial will explore if a special medical tampon can help detect the earliest signs of ovarian cancer..

US President Donald Trump has announced a 10% global tariff on “all countries” after the Supreme Court struck down his reciprocal levies policy..

The King has said “the law must take its course” after expressing his “deepest concern” over the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office..

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One in nine new homes were built in flood risk areas between 2022 and 2024, exposing a “worrying” rising trend, analysis shows..

UK inflation has eased to its lowest since March last year on the back of falling petrol prices and slower food price increases, according to official figures..

Sick days taken from school have increased by 50% during flu season, analysis has found, as health experts call on the Government to increase vaccine rollout..

The Rev Jesse L Jackson, a protege of the Dr Martin Luther King Jr and two-time presidential candidate who led the civil rights movement for decades after Dr King’s assassination, has died. He was 84..

YouTuber and experimental singer-songwriter Look Mum No Computer will represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in May, the BBC has announced..

A nine-year-old boy has become the first person in the UK to have pioneering surgery to make him taller..

Six companies linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are being wound down in the wake of the publication of the Epstein files, Companies House documents show..

Further yellow warnings for snow and ice will come into force on Monday, covering large swathes of the UK..

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to act in “months, not years” to protect young people from addictive social media platforms, amid calls for a ban for under-16s..

Former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful is to get a wax statue in Madame Tussauds to celebrate London Fashion Week..

Around one in three workers feel less satisfied and engaged in their job, hitting their productivity, research suggests..

The average price tag on a home edged down by £12 month-on-month in February following a record jump of nearly £10,000 in January, according to a property website..

Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead has hailed the greatest day in British Winter Olympic history as records tumbled like an avalanche in Livigno and Cortina..