English hospitals brace for ‘alarming’ disruption as GPs go on strike
The NHS faces “alarming” and “dangerous” disruption until Christmas and potentially into 2025, health chiefs have said, after GPs began their first industrial action in
Environmentalist becomes first juror to swear oath on river water
When jurors are called to court, they are required to swear on a holy book or make a secular promise to tell the truth. So
Boy, 11, arrested on suspicion of arson and seven men charged over Hartlepool rioting
An 11-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a police vehicle was set alight, while seven men have been charged, all in
‘We don’t want to feel unsafe in the place we love’: Muslims and asylum seekers fear more far-right protests
It was about 6pm on Wednesday when faith leaders at the Nasir mosque in Hartlepool were told by police to close its doors due to
‘Humongous’ fort found in Wales may disprove theory of Celtic-Roman peace
A previously unknown Roman fort discovered in Pembrokeshire in Wales overturns assumptions that the area’s indigenous Celtic tribe was on peaceful terms with the Roman
Egyptian mummy with screaming expression ‘may have died in agony’, say researchers
She looks uncannily like The Scream painting by Edvard Munch, but just why an ancient Egyptian mummy has such a startling expression has long puzzled
Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?
When Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, made $438m worldwide on its opening weekend, Marvel executives must have felt as if Christmas
Andy Murray’s tearful farewell, Simone Biles’ brilliance and boxing controversy
Paris saw the best of Olympic sport as Andy Murray ended his career with one last night under the floodlights and US superstar gymnast Simone
Andy Murray – a career in pictures
2012 Grand slam victory at last! Murray poses with the US Open trophy next to his mother, Judy, who drove his career from an early
Battling Andy Murray does not go gently as curtain falls on career | Alexandra Topping
‘Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light’, wrote Dylan Thomas in 1947. He could