Donna Stevens, chief executive of the Girls’ Schools Association, has called Labour’s private school policy a ‘step backwards for equality’.

The work will accelerate the development of hypersonic vehicles which travel faster than the speed of sound, John Healey said.

Downing Street refused to be drawn into a row over the tech billionaire’s criticisms of its plans to reform inheritance tax for farms.

An MP has said it is “mystifying” why files on the bombing of the Navy support ship Sir Galahad during the Falklands War have still not been released. Defence minister Al Carns said the Ministry of ...

Arrests have been made after police found suspected class A drugs in Nelson. On Sunday (November 17), police stopped a VW Passat at around 8pm on Camden Street. After searching the car, police found ...

Daley, 30, announced his retirement after collecting 10m synchro silver alongside Noah Williams at the Paris 2024 Olympics, but Figueiredo – who can claim some credit for inspiring the athlete’s ...

Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted that decisions he made during the Covid pandemic continue to “weigh heavily” upon him. Mr Swann also told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he did ...

A defence minister has pledged to help recognise the service of thousands of women dismissed from the armed forces because of pregnancy. Al Carns, whose ministerial brief includes veterans, offered to ...

Mr Swann told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he believed it would have been ‘unethical and unnecessary’ to deploy the orders based on age ...

A new homes development in a council joint venture near Nelson has faced a host of challenges, it has emerged.

Cheshire Child Death Overview Panel said she heard concerns regarding Lucy Letby 10 months after they were first raised.

New business openings across the UK hit their lowest rate in more than a decade last year, official figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows 316,000 new businesses were ...