More babies will die from whooping cough unless vaccination rates go up to slow the spread of the infection, a leading expert has warned.

On Friday, the ONS confirmed the quarterly performance after 0.4% economic growth in March, again boosted by the UK’s service industry. There was notable growth for the human health and social ...

Russia is pressing hard in parts of eastern Ukraine in an effort to drive deeper into the Donetsk region, which it partly ...

Hungary and China have signed a number of new agreements to deepen their economic and cultural co-operation during a visit to ...

Israel reopened its side of the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing – Gaza’s main cargo terminal – after a rocket attack over the ...

British author and journalist Dame Shirley Conran has died aged 91. Her son, the designer Jasper Conran, wrote on Instagram on Thursday: “Shirl girl has flown away, a lark ascending.” ...

An outbreak of whooping cough and a “tug of war” over interest rate cuts lead the Friday papers. The Daily Mail, Metro and the Daily Mirror report on an outbreak of whooping cough that has cost five ...

Analysis by the Institute for Government came after the Prime Minister pledged to cut Civil Service jobs to pay for an increase in defence spending.

It comes after revelations at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London around PSNI spying tactics on reporters.

The Public Health Agency said there have been 769 confirmed cases compared with just two between 2021 and 2023.

The plans would have seen at least 10,000 properties in one area switch from gas boilers to hydrogen heating by the end of the decade.

Grass pollen levels peak in May and June and weed pollen counts remain high over the summer, bringing with it hay fever ...