TV presenter Jay Blades is due to appear in court charged with rape. West Mercia Police previously said the 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, will face a first hearing at ...

A funeral director is due to enter pleas to 63 charges spanning more than 10 years after a major investigation into human remains found at his premises. Robert Bush, 47, faces 30 counts of preventing ...

MPs are calling on the Government to fund free bus travel for people aged under 22 in England. The Transport Select Committee, which made the recommendation, said it would improve young people’s ...

Donate-a-phone schemes and computer workshops will receive Government backing worth £9.5 million, as part of a plan to help older people and low-income households access an “essential for modern life” ...

A total of 13,109 British drivers were convicted of the offence in 2024, official data obtained by the RAC revealed.

The fourth heatwave of the summer will continue on Wednesday with temperatures expected to climb to 34C in parts of England. An amber heat health alert remains in place for the West Midlands, East ...

NHS Blood and Transplant are trying to encourage more people aged 50 and over to join the NHS Organ Donor Register.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said motorists are often ‘first on the scene’ when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.

Rare species from water voles to adders across England have been helped with cash from the Species Recovery Programme’s capital grants scheme.

The project, led by Heriot-Watt University and involving researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University and the University of Stirling, aims to help people with hearing loss by ...

Using records from the National Disease Registration Service for England and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, experts estimated net survival for up to 10 years after diagnosis for ...

Live facial recognition will be expanded across the country as part of a Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing. The technology will be deployed to catch “high-harm” offenders, with new rules ...