More than 130,000 people across England will benefit from workplace health checks being trialled to help protect people from preventable diseases, the government has said.
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TUC warns Keir Starmer: do not water down ban on zero-hours contracts
Keir Starmer has been warned against caving in to pressure to water down a ban on exploitative zero-hours contracts, after fresh evidence showing the financial
Keir Starmer ‘gets rid of’ 10 Downing Street’s Thatcher portrait
Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street, according to his biographer. Tom Baldwin said that after Starmer
Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for using Holocaust poem to criticise smoking ban
The Conservative MP Esther McVey has been urged to “get a grip” after she posted a poem about the Holocaust to criticise government plans to
LNER train driver strikes called off after successful union talks
A series of weekend strikes by train drivers on LNER from Saturday has been called off, their trade union Aslef has announced. Passengers travelling between
People in England driving more, cycling less and walking further, survey shows
People in England are walking record distances, official figures show – but charities have said more needs to be done to get individuals on their
Starmer hails ‘once in a generation’ treaty with Germany – as it happened
here. Here is a summary of today’s key developments: Keir Starmer announced a new UK-Germany treaty at a press conference with German chancellor Olaf Scholz
Thames Water says without steep bill increase it’s ‘neither financeable nor investible’
Thames Water has said it will be unable to recover from its funding crisis if it is blocked from charging customers significantly more, as it
Man who threw object at Nigel Farage in Barnsley gets suspended sentence
A man has been given a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of throwing what appeared to be a coffee cup at Nigel Farage during
Two pilots survive light aircraft crash on busy road in Gloucestershire
Two pilots of a light aircraft escaped without serious injury despite crash-landing on to a busy A-road in Gloucestershire. After landing, the plane appeared to