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The Health Secretary has apologised to patients as doctors began a five-day walkout in England in an ongoing row over jobs and pay. It comes as healthcare leaders warned the impact of the strike will be “felt all the way into January and beyond”. Wes Streeting said the Government did “everything we could” to avoid the strike, including holding 11th-hour talks with British Medical Association (BMA) officials on Tuesday. He […]

More than half of people began the year with plans to reduce the time they spent on their phone, but data indicates it was another record-breaking year for mobile data usage, new research suggests. Communications giant Virgin Media O2 said usage was up by 18%, with many people reporting they used their phone more frequently to stay in touch with friends and family, scroll on social media and use artificial […]

A target for reducing average driving test waiting times in Britain to seven weeks is not expected to be met for another two years, according to the public spending watchdog. Nearly one in three learners are paying third parties up to £500 to book a test because of the large backlog, a National Audit Office (NAO) report said. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has failed to appoint sufficient […]

Inflation fell sharply last month as lower food prices helped to ease the cost of living for households across the UK, new official figures showed. The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation fell to 3.2% in November, from 3.6% in October, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. This marks the lowest CPI rate since March this year and a bigger drop than the 3.5% that most economists were […]

Children who lived in overcrowded or damp homes missed three weeks more school than other pupils over the course of their education, a study has found. Pupils living in poor quality homes tend to be more likely to experience health problems and therefore are more likely to miss school, researchers from University College London (UCL) and City St George’s, University of London said. Pupils in houses of lower quality from […]