Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move was to ‘confront the reality’ of the pressures on the service.

Concerns were often raised as to how his opinions would feature when he became monarch. The head of state is a non-political figurehead and must remain strictly neutral. But when he turned 70, four ...

Dr Beth Upton gave evidence about an allegation of patient safety in 2023 regarding nurse Sandie Peggie, a tribunal heard.

A woman allegedly turned into a teenage “sex slave” by a Rochdale grooming gang of Asian men told a jury “everybody knew what was going on”. And the witness said she was regarded as a “prostitute” ...