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Matt Hancock has defended government deals to buy personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic, saying the country was in a "desperate situation" at the time. In a bad-tempered session ...

People not knowing about options to make their cervical screening easier and more comfortable is"costing lives", a cancer charity warned last month. To find out what having the test is ...

The most senior doctor in NHS England has said he was "personally terrified" that hospitals could have been overwhelmed in the early stages of the pandemic. Prof Sir Stephen Powis ...

A powerful new criminal offence to target suspects who are found to be preparing mass killings will ensure their plotting is taken as seriously as terrorism, the home secretary says. ...

It has been more than three years since a British official inadvertently leaked a dataset containing the names and contact details of thousands of people who were attempting to flee ...

The government has said it is making "substantial changes" to the compensation scheme for thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal. The announcement was made in Parliament two weeks ...

A state-of-the-art British fighter jet that had been stuck at an Indian airport for more than five weeks is now airborne and on its way to Darwin in Australia, an ...

Labour's original plan to reform the welfare system was a hasty effort to try to make billions of pounds of cuts to a rapidly growing bill in order to help ...

Rob Brydon has said he was inspired by The Traitors as the Welsh actor prepares to return to screens as the host of a new game show. Destination X challenges ...

Seven Wolverhampton schools have been recognised for their commitment to promoting emotional health and wellbeing, the council says. The schools were part of a pilot scheme run by the council ...