40 h. ago Another new name linked with Salford owners as wage wait goes on

SITALEKI Akuaola is the latest name to be linked with Salford’s disastrous ownership - who have left people waiting to be paid again. Isiosaia ‘Sire’ Kailahi and Curtiz Brown are carrying on regardless, even though the club faces being wound up next Wednesday over unpaid tax approaching £1 million. However, SunSport understands wages were not...

Politics

56 h. ago Congratulations everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn | Marina Hyde

Labour can proudly say this was a budget for working people – that is, if your job happens to be prime ministerThanks to Labour’s incredible Black Friday deal, breaking manifesto policies is buy-one-get-one-free. As part of its all-promises-must-go drive, it’s ditching its flagship policy giving the right to claim unfair dismissal from day one of employment. Employers will now have up to six months to summarily sack workers who don’t pan out – unless they’re the government, in which case people have to wait till 2029.The employment rights bill was drawn up and championed by Angela Rayner, who resigned in September following a series of discoveries about her tax affairs. Weird to think that Rayner could easily have been in the I’m a Celebrity camp right now. The former deputy PM reportedly got pretty far along in her discussions with ITV in terms of booking a spot on the current series of the fauna-testicle-based format, and could at this very moment have been giving us her Queen Ove...

Economics

56 h. ago Fury as London pubs, hotels, and shops hammered by business rates soaring by tens of thousands of pounds

Premier Inn expects its business rate bill to go up by between £40 million and £50 million a year

Economics

6 d. ago DVSA issues update on driving test waiting times after being urged to reduce them 'below seven weeks'

Some people are waiting more than five months to undergo the exam

Politics

6 d. ago 'People are morons': The curse of 'button edgers' who refuse to press the traffic light buttons and clog up city streets'

'Button edgers' are a group of people who wait at a traffic light and not press the pedestrian button - and it can be infuriating

Politics

7 d. ago People will be waiting for Arsenal and Mikel Arteta to slip up

Pundits are already recalling Arsenal blowing leads in the title race and all eyes will be on them as they have the chance to go six points clear at the Premier League summit on Sunday

Politics

9 d. ago The shocking amount of time people have to wait in A&E in Wales

Healthcare professionals say they need more support, with one doctor calling the current situation "dismaying"

Events

9 d. ago Martin Lewis issues new car finance warning to people waiting on redress scheme payout

Around 14 million people are due compensation payouts averaging £700 next year.

Events

1 week ago ROLAND WHITE reviews Cooper & Fry: Headless corpses? Evil spirits? All in a day's work for a Peak District cop

When people start new jobs in real life, they wait a few days to settle in. They're on their best behaviour, and they don't moan that it was much better at their old place.

Events

1 week ago NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns

Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investmentThe NHS has failed to cut waiting times as promised in its recovery plan despite billions of pounds in investment, the public accounts committee (PAC) has warned.The influential parliamentary committee’s verdict raises serious doubts over whether Labour can fulfil its key pledge to voters to “fix the NHS” by ensuring that patients can once again get hospital care within 18 weeks by 2029.Key NHS targets to improve access to both planned care and diagnostic tests by last spring “were missed”.NHS England had spent £3.24bn setting up community diagnostic centres and surgical hubs but had not achieved the aim of reducing delays.In July, 192,000 people had been waiting at least a year for care, despite a pledge to eradicate that practice altogether by March 2025.22% of patients were having to wait more than six weeks for a diagnostic test, even though that was due to be cut ...

Events

1 week ago Cancer symptoms linked to almost all forms of disease which shouldn’t be ignored

GP waits deterring people from getting red flag cancer symptoms checked as Cancer Research UK lists the key signs of disease which half of population will get

Science

2 w. ago The areas with the LONGEST A&E waits revealed: More than 1,700 patients A DAY are forced to wait at least 12 hours in emergency departments but waiting list shrinks (for now, at least)

Some 54,000 people who attended England's emergency departments in October waited half a day before admitted, transferred or discharged, NHS figures show.

Science

2 w. ago NHS waiting list falls as Wes Streeting says service ‘on road to recovery’

The NHS waiting list has fallen in last 12 months under Labour for the first in 15 years - but patient demand means the service is at its busiest ever going into winter

Politics

2 w. ago Minister says police and crime commissioners will be abolished in 2028 because system has failed – UK politics live

Elected policing roles will be phased out and their powers transferred to mayors in England in move that could save £100mPA Media has more on what the monthly performance figures from NHS England show. PA says:The data shows 180,329 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of September, down from 190,549 at the end of August.Some 2.4% of people on the list for hospital treatment had been waiting more than 52 weeks in September, down from 2.6% the previous month.The NHS waiting list is 230,000 lower than July last year, even as the health service ‘approaches its limit’ with A&E and ambulances facing record demand ahead of winter.The overall waiting list for September was 7.39m (an estimated 6.24m patients) down 15,845 compared to the previous month and 230,000 fewer than July 2024.Thanks to the investment and modernisation this government has made, waiting lists are falling and patients are being treated sooner The past ye...

Events

2 w. ago NHS hospital performance in England: Latest numbers and trends

Some 180,329 people had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of September.

Politics

2 w. ago New Archbishop of Canterbury says churches SHOULD baptise asylum seekers amid fears of fake conversions to stay in the UK

Dame Sarah Mullally argued that due to the persecution faced by millions of Christians around the world, people may wait until they are in the UK to publicly declare their faith.

Events

2 w. ago KFC launches Stranger Things burger and fans are all asking the same question

The fast-food chain has launched a new burger and wings as we countdown the days until Stranger Things season 5 drops on Netflix - and people can't wait to try it

Politics

2 w. ago Everyday volunteers are providing stopgap services during the shutdown in a show of community power

Everyday people are improvising stopgap efforts to support their communities through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

Events

2 w. ago Furious bull terrorises community and attacks people – 'he’s waiting for the moment'

A bull has left terrified families living in fear for months as it roams the streets, attacks locals, and damages property, despite repeated police interventions, fines, and desperate pleas

Events

2 w. ago M25 traffic LIVE: Driver dies after horror lorry emergency with delays for MILES

The M25 was shut anti-clockwise for about an hour as emergency services attended an incident involving a lorry driver this afternoon who has now been confirmed to have died

Events