10 h. ago Yellow weather warning shuts M48 Severn Bridge and motorists warned of poor driving conditions

Heavy downpours have caused flooding on roads including the M4 and A470 overnight

Events

53 h. ago Brits face fresh Canary Island chaos as major strike confirmed over Easter

Tourism workers in the most popular Canary Island are getting ready to stage a mass walkout over poor working conditions and stagnant salaries

Events

7 d. ago Prison officer union demands end to pressure cooker conditions in Scottish jails

"Damning indictment" on Scottish Government after report reveals poor conditions in crumbling, Victorian-age Barlinnie Prison

Events

7 d. ago Horse found with hole in his head had to be put down as he was in 'such poor condition'

The black stallion, called Ross had to be euthanised despite the best efforts of a vet, while his owner, Andrea Parry-Jones, avoided an immediate jail term

Politics

2 w. ago New York to release some prison inmates early over shortage of guard staff

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who went on strike over poor working conditions

Events

3 w. ago Lionesses boss Sarina Wiegman stresses player safety concerns amid “dangerously” poor pitch conditions

Poor playing conditions in recent high-profile games has once again raised the issue of standards in women’s football

Sport

3 w. ago A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her

Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voicesUmaymah Mohammad has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she remembers. She traces her ambition to the story of her mother, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel to Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and who contracted polio as a toddler. Despite living with the debilitating disease, Mohammad’s mother went on to raise five children and obtain a graduate degree in the US.It’s the story of a woman who “overcame unbearable medical circumstances”, Mohammad said. It also taught the Palestinian American about “the sociological determinants of health”, she said, as Mohammad believes displacement contributed to her mother catching the disease, due to the poor sanitary conditions entire communities of Palestinian refugees faced at the time. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Scots care workers leaving to work in Aldi amid poor working conditions

Tamara Beattie, 31, from Fife, worked in a private care home for nine years and is now an agency worker in the sector.

Politics