19 h. ago The NHS nurses branded bigots for refusing to share a changing room with a 'big burly bloke': As they launch a landmark legal case, these warrior women reveal why their fight is NOT a trans issue

'Say one of us changed our name, and without any other evidence that we were transitioning, walked into the male changing room, believing we had every right to be in there, in our bra and knickers.'

Sport

28 h. ago Hudson River helicopter crash: NYC chopper 'had mechanical issue months before fatal wreck'

The Bell 206 helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River during a sightseeing tour of New York City had reported an issue with its transmission assembly prior to the crash, according to FAA data

Events

43 h. ago Dad with dementia will no longer have to sell his home to pay for care in landmark legal victory

Leonard Manning's care home fees were costing £1,800 a week

Politics

49 h. ago David Moyes issues Jarrad Branthwaite transfer update amid '£70m' Man United links

Manchester United were keen on signing Jarrad Branthwaite last summer and the interest in the Everton centre-back is reportedly still there

Economics

52 h. ago NHS anaesthetist who 'played God' and almost killed shop owner by injecting him with powerful paralysing drug in 'motiveless' attack is jailed for 15 years

Gary Lewis, 65, collapsed to the floor in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, on July 2 last year after Darren Harris, 58, plunged a a syringe loaded with a muscle-paralysing drug into his thigh.

Events

52 h. ago Travel warnings issued for trans people planning trips to the US

Several European countries have issued travel advisories for their transgender, non-binary, and third-gender citizens hoping to travel to the US, after Donald Trump's recently signed executive order.

Events

66 h. ago Man Utd news: Bruno Fernandes transfer claim made as Ruben Amorim issues challenge

Manchester United are building up to a crucial summer transfer window in which boss Ruben Amorim will look to overhaul his underperforming squad as the pressure mounts on him

Politics

4 d. ago Liverpool news: Arne Slot discovers target's transfer preference as 'nightmare' issue emerges

Liverpool have plenty of work still to complete on and off the pitch before the Premier League season is over with Arne Slot's attention first on West Ham United next weekend

Events

5 d. ago Parkrun embroiled in transgender 'bigoted bullying' row as race director tells former Olympian to 'f*** off'

Former British Olympic runner Mara Yamauchi has been branded a 'bigoted bully' and told to 'f*** off' by a Parkrun director in a furious row about trans women competing in the event's female category.

Sport

6 d. ago Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander issues statement after tube passenger openly smoking crack on the Victoria line

The shocking incident occurred on the Victoria Line during rush hour, with the man bending over and attempting to light up a rock of the drug in full view of fellow passengers.

Politics

6 d. ago Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander issues statement after tube passenger openly smoking crack on the Victoria

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander issues statement after tube passenger openly smoking crack on the Victoria  Daily Mail

Politics

9 d. ago Alan Shearer issues Liam Delap Man United transfer verdict amid Man City advantage

Ipswich Town has enjoyed a season in the Premier League, and other clubs have become alert to his situation should Kieran McKenna's side go down

Politics

9 d. ago Free bus passes for over 60s update as new DfT statement makes funding suggestion

The Department for Transport has issued a response to campaigners who want the same automatic concession as those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to be extended to over 60s in England

Politics

1 week ago Nurses launch landmark sexual harassment battle against NHS: Group claim transgender colleague given access to female changing rooms 'stared as they got undressed'

The eight nurses say that allowing a male-born colleague to use the women's facilities at Darlington Memorial Hospital puts them at risk, deprives them of dignity and breaches their rights.

Events

1 week ago JK Rowling stickers on campus ‘not a transphobic dog whistle’, tribunal told

Academics Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) over criticism of their film about trans issues.

Politics

1 week ago Mr Burton review – the teacher who inspired and encouraged screen legend Richard Burton

Toby Jones plays the spaniel-eyed schoolmaster setting Harry Lawtey’s needy young pupil on course for haughty international stardomThe career of Richard Burton seemed mythic at the time, and more so in retrospect. In Pedro Almodóvar’s latest movie The Room Next Door, Julianne Moore’s character is even shown reading Erotic Vagrancy, Roger Lewis’s account of Burton’s then-adulterous relationship with Elizabeth Taylor in the early 60s, the title taken from Pope John XXIII’s extraordinary denunciation: “You will finish in an erotic vagrancy, without end or without a safe port.” In fact, the nearest thing Burton ever had to a safe port was his inspirational English teacher Philip Burton in Port Talbot, south Wales, whose own frustrated dreams of the theatre were poured into the bright young miner’s son Richard Jenkins, coaching him in acting and even making him his legal ward and getting him to change his surname to Burton to facilitate the teacher’s sponsorship of his Oxford scholarship...

Politics

1 week ago The quiet, boring change that gives Andy Burnham more power from today

The Greater Manchester mayor says it's a 'big moment'

Events

1 week ago Manchester United new striker transfer truth emerges as update issued

Man United are in desperate need of a new striker this summer with goalscoring a major problem at Old Trafford under Ruben Amorim.

Sport

1 week ago Parents who were branded bigots for removing their boy from school after 'identity' row speak out amid 'transphobic' toddler saga

Sally Rowe and her husband Nigel appeared on GB News this evening where they described recent events as a reflection of the 'tragedy of our society'.

Politics

1 week ago Nursing bosses warn lack of staffing needs puts SNP's NHS vision at risk of falling flat

Fears have been raised over a lack of workforce planning in the Scottish Government’s NHS improvement plan.

Events