6 hours ago Wales train crash: Man dies and 15 people taken to hospital as two passenger services collide

All services have been cancelled until further notice - the man's next of kin has been informed

Events

14 hours ago Free energy drinks and ‘mandatory euthanasia’ among tips submitted as NHS public consultation mocked

Government launches major consultation on the future of the NHS, promising to put patients and staff at the heart of its 10-year health plan

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14 hours ago NHS care can be a ‘death sentence’ for some patients, Health Secretary says

Wes Streeting has spoken out

Science

16 hours ago Streeting revives claim that some patients face avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current state of NHS – UK politics live

Health secretary says NHS is going through the ‘worst crisis in its history’In the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, one of the balloons is ...

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16 hours ago Starmer insists NHS must make better use of tech amid data protection concerns

Proposed new laws will make patient records available across all NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulance services in England.

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20 hours ago Hundreds of mourners gather to bid farewell Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter after they perished when the Bayesian superyacht sunk

Seven people died when Mr Lynch's £30million Bayesian yacht sank in just 16 minutes after getting caught in a freak storm off the coast of Porticello, near Sicily, on August 19.

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25 hours ago Number of people killed in road rage incidents hits record high: Urgent warning after figures show at least two people a week die during rows on the road

A record number of people died in accidents that were triggered by 'road rage' incidents.

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25 hours ago Hundreds of mourners gather to farewell Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter after they perished when the Bayesian superyacht sunk

Seven people died when Mr Lynch's £30million Bayesian yacht sank in just 16 minutes after getting caught in a freak storm off the coast of Porticello, near Sicily, on August 19.

Politics