Tens of thousands of council workers will be balloted on strike action from Thursday in what a union is calling the biggest vote of its kind in years. Unison said a vote will be offered to more than ...

Together Coalition, which organises the VE Mail programme, said more than 1,300 schools and youth organisations had requested a letter from ...

One in eight secondary school teachers report that a pupil committed sexual assault against another child in the past term, poll suggests.

The 50p coin design, available to buy from Thursday, features a dove of peace and the inscription ‘In peace goodwill’.

The research found 49% of people in the UK, and 45% in Scotland, suffer from sunburn at least once every year. Stephen Maxwell, 58, from Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire, was diagnosed with melanoma ...

The new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, DERM (Deep Ensemble for Recognition of Malignancy), works by analysing images of moles or skin lesions to see whether they are potentially cancerous.

Dame Julia Hoggett was praised for her leadership and impact in financial services as she was named winner of the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award.

It follows the findings of Leeds University research, featured in the BBC Panorama investigation The Truth About Baby Food.

The US and Ukrainian presidents were pictured in discussion at the Vatican over the weekend, having both travelled for Pope Francis’s funeral.

Mistakes on medical records can put people’s health “at risk”, experts have said, as a new poll revealed almost one in four have found errors in their personal documents. Healthwatch England has urged ...

Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor set her sights on completing the domestic treble and an unbeaten season after clinching the Women’s Super League title. Lucy Bronze headed a second-half winner as the ...