28 h. ago Thousands of cancer patients denied key drug due to ‘unfair’ NHS rulings, says charity

Charity Breast Cancer Now says the process for NHS drug approval is ‘unfair’

Science

43 h. ago Hundreds pay respects to 20,000 Brit soldiers killed on first day of Battle of the Somme

Poignant sound of whistles heard as tributes paid to the 20,000 British soldiers killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme - 109 years ago

Events

50 h. ago Urgent warning as prescription drug taken by tens of thousands recalled due to cancer risk

UK medicines watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) stuck an alert on one batch of the tablets.

Events

7 d. ago British mother, 66, says she is 'stranded' in Israel despite signing up for Government evacuation flights and forking out £100s

A British woman stranded in Israel said she has still not heard from the Government about chartered evacuation flights - despite registering and paying hundreds of pounds last week.

Politics

8 d. ago From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn’t seeIt’s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandstone mills, Grimsby without its fishing docks, or parts of Liverpool without their streets of terrace houses. Yet all these things could have victims of the wrecking ball, if it weren’t for one small band of plucky activists. You may not have heard of Save Britain’s Heritage, or Save as it likes to style itself. But the tiny charity, which celebrates its 50th birthday this month, has had more influence than any other group in campaigning for the imaginative reuse of buildings at risk, most of which had no ...

Politics

8 d. ago The cancer affecting thousands of Brits that many of us have never heard of

Despite its relative obscurity, this is one of the most aggressive and challenging cancers to diagnose and treat.

Politics

9 d. ago New ‘sponge on a string’ trick could spare invasive cancer tests for ‘thousands of people’

Sponge test ‘could benefit thousands of people’ with Barrett’s oesophagus

Events

1 week ago Cancer breakthrough could transform chemotherapy success rates in UK

Tens of thousands of cancer patients going through gruelling chemotherapy could have DNA test to predict which form of the drug most likely to kill their cancer

Politics

1 week ago 'I warned my mates about rabies on a Morocco trip – then I heard a Brit had died'

After warning my mates on holiday stray animals in Morocco could carry the deadly virus rabies we retuned home to the United Kingdom and were meet with horrifying news just hours upon our arrival

Events

3 w. ago ITV Good Morning Britain star forced to reassure viewers as loud bangs heard live on air

Ranvir Singh was back on ITV morning programme Good Morning Britain alongside Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley to share some breaking news from Los Angeles protests

Society

3 w. ago Surprising symptoms of 'overlooked' cancer every woman must know

An alarming number of women are unaware of the tell-tale signs of a deadly cancer that kills thousands each year, new research has shown.

Science

3 w. ago Cancer survivors 'stopped from going on holiday as insurance won't cover them'

Cancer survivors now free of the disease face premiums of thousands of pounds and sometimes can’t get cover at all

Events