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Reform UK launched its local election campaign in Birmingham

Reform UK was launching its local election campaign in Birmingham on Friday.

The King was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer in February 2024 and returned to public-facing duties in April

Figures reveal 29% fall in operations in England to remove foreign bodies from children’s airways, noses and throats

The King’s Fund charity has called for a shift in how cash is spent to drive care into the community.

A recent BBC investigation questioned the accuracy of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) self-tests – rapid at-home tests for men worried about prostate cancer. The BBC analysed five of these tests using one blood sample and found varying results: one positive, three negative, and one unreadable.

Shoplifting has soared to such “epidemic” levels with reports of 17,000 incidents-a-day while attacks on shopkeepers are up by 50 per cent. Reports of violence against women and girls have surged so alarmingly in the last few years that the police declared it a “national emergency”.

Senior civil servant who was appointed director of the Office for Population Censuses and Surveys in 1986

It is first time in three weeks there has not been a small decrease in norovirus patients.

The drop comes despite warnings of a deepening mental health crisis

The decision was confirmed in a written ministerial statement by the Health Secretary on Thursday.