7 h. ago Hundreds take to Manchester city streets in trans rights march

The protest comes after the UK’s Supreme Court ruled this week that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex

Politics

37 h. ago Annual duck race to return as hundreds of rubber duckies set to descend on Greater Manchester's waters

It wouldn’t be Easter weekend without a bit of quacking good fun, right?

Sport

55 h. ago Hundreds of Greater Manchester NHS staff could face 'severance and redundancy' in major reforms

NHS Greater Manchester has been told it needs to cut back its costs by 39 per cent, saving £41m of its £106m 'total cost of people' under the government’s new NHS reforms

Sport

3 d. ago Farage warns Reform is parking its 'tanks' on Labour's lawn and of 'Nige

In a major speech in Durham, the Reform leader insisted Labour had just as much to fear from his insurgent party as the Tories in its traditional working-class heartlands.

Events

3 d. ago NHS Greater Manchester has to save £41 MILLION from staff budget as government's reforms hit

NHS Greater Manchester is ‘required to submit an outline plan' by the end of May of how millions will be saved, reports health writer Helena Vesty

Economics

3 d. ago Scots Health Secretary Neil Gray praises staff during visit to NHS Lanarkshire’s Flow Navigation Centre Plus

Mr Gray, who is also MSP for Airdrie & Shotts, recently visited the FNC+ hub in Bothwell to mark the launch of the Scottish Government’s Operational Improvement Plan.

Society

9 d. ago A man had 'hundreds of pounds stolen', then police came knocking... with a special guest

'There is no earthly point carrying a warrant card if you don't go around arresting bad people'

Events

9 d. ago Two arrested as police raid house with their boss watching on

'There is no earthly point carrying a warrant card if you don't go around arresting bad people'

Events

9 d. ago People who are violent or abusive to NHS staff because they think they have a 'right' to access health care should be turned away, Wes Streeting warns

The health secretary pledged to keep staff safe at work by enforcing a 'zero tolerance' approach and making the reporting of violent incidents mandatory.

Events

9 d. ago NHS access ‘does not come with licence to abuse staff’, says Wes Streeting

The Health Secretary pledged to ‘act to keep NHS staff safe at work’ by making the reporting of violent incidents mandatory.

Events

9 d. ago Lanarkshire NHS staff to consider eight per cent pay rise over next two years

Health Secretary, and Airdrie and Shotts MSP, Neil Gray set out plans for a 4.25 per cent increase in 2025-26 and a 3.75 per cent rise next year.

Politics

1 week ago Wes Streeting promises 'zero tolerance' to violence against NHS staff in key speech

The Health Secretary Wes Streeting will say 'no one should go to work fearing violence' as he addresses Unison union's annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday

Events

1 week ago Voices: ‘I no longer recognise it’: Former staff and patients share experiences of the NHS

From ex-workers to chronic illness patients, while many Independent readers value the NHS, they also say the service the have trusted over the years has vanished

Science

1 week ago DARREN LEWIS We need to accept that giving kids phones ends their childhood

From NHS staff being harassed and filmed to Tottenham Hotspur fans weaponising their phones against boss Ange Postecoglou, The Mirror's Assistant Editor and columnist Darren Lewis says childhoods are 'poisoned' by the effect of mobiles and their content

Politics

2 w. ago Cardiff Metropolitan University announces compulsory redundancies

Costs exceed income and "difficult decisions" must be made said Cardiff Met University bosses as they announced between 30 and 50 compulsoryt redundancies on top of staff leaving through voluntary severance

Culture

2 w. ago NHS hospitals plagued by rats and vermin as staff survey reveals disgusting state of buildings

Around one in six NHS staff said they had seen vermin such as rats inside their building in the past 12 months, in a report published by Unison.

Politics

2 w. ago NHS staff lift the lid on appalling conditions with hospitals 'plagued by rats and cockroaches' in bombshell report

NHS staff have revealed the 'worst of the problems' in the health service - including exposing hospitals and buildings that are 'plagued by rats, cockroaches and sliverfish'

Events

2 w. ago From rats to sewage leaks: NHS staff expose reality inside UK hospitals

A new survey of nearly 9,000 staff also reported sewage leaks, faulty lighting, broken toilets, and decaying ceilings

Politics

2 w. ago Cabbies fear 'hundreds' of taxis will be 'forced off' Manchester's roads at stroke of New Year's Eve midnight

"It physically cannot be done"

Politics

2 w. ago Top Tory meets major landlords in bid to scupper Labour’s rental reforms

A Tory frontbencher met landlord groups to discuss plans to frustrate or scupper Labour’s overhaul of renters rights

Politics