Egor Kulinich/Shutterstock The UK is set to roll out a national lung cancer screening programme for people aged 55 to 74 with a history of smoking. The idea is to catch lung cancer at an early stage when it is more treatable. Quoting NHS England data, the health secretary, SteveContinue Reading
david.costa.art/Shutterstock If you were asked to think of a mammal, chances are high you would think of a placental mammal – horses, dogs, cats, humans, even bats and rats all fall into that category. It includes some 6,000 species who live in the oceans as well as on land. TodayContinue Reading
A n under-threat police station in Boris Johnson’s old constituency is set to remain open, after London Mayor Sadiq Khan intervened to save it weeks before a crunch by-election. Local campaigners have long opposed the potential closure of the police station, with the former prime minister using a rare CommonsContinue Reading
S tate schools in England have paid recruitment agencies more than £8 billion in fees since 2010, Labour has said. It came as Sir Keir Starmer’s party promised that its plan to address growing concerns over the retention and recruitment of teachers would save taxpayers billions of pounds. Labour hasContinue Reading
T ributes have been paid to a “true public servant of the highest integrity”, Lord Bob Kerslake, after his family announced he has died. The former head of the civil service, 68, died on Saturday after “a short battle with cancer”, his “devastated” sister Ros Kerslake CBE said in aContinue Reading
A new package of measures to recruit and retain teachers in English schools would lead to “world-class teaching for every child”, Labour has said. Sir Keir Starmer is expected to use a speech next week to promise to reinstate the requirement for new teachers to have or to be workingContinue Reading
Loveandrock/Shutterstock Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, has told the recently opened COVID-19 Inquiry that the UK’s pandemic planning was “completely wrong”. According to Hancock, the doctrine was “to plan for the consequences of a disaster” rather than stopping or containing the virus in the first place. While there isContinue Reading
The Milky Way, as seen with neutrino particles. IceCube Collaboration / US National Science Foundation (Lily Le and Shawn Johnson) / ESO (S. Brunier) Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. It’s the firstContinue Reading
L iz Truss is set to launch a new taskforce of economists aimed at finding solutions to sluggish growth in the West. The new Growth Commission, which will be launched later this month, has been convened by Ms Truss as an independent body to help tackle the causes of lowContinue Reading
H umza Yousaf said he is “confident” the SNP can hold the constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West but admitted his party would face a “tough” challenge if a by-election is held there. With a recall petition currently under way after Margaret Ferrier, the MP for the area, was suspendedContinue Reading
