Written by The value of the UK’s private healthcare market rose to a record £12.4bn last year as long NHS waiting lists fuelled demand from individuals and the health service paid for nearly £3.5bn of procedures to help ease the care backlog. As private medical insurance boomed, total revenues generated in the independent healthcare sector hit an […]
Starmer under pressure to accept case for slavery reparations, as Commonwealth minister claims UK will eventually agree Keir Starmer has been told by Commonwealth leaders he must come to the table to discuss reparations for the “ill effects” of slavery, PA Media reports. Commonwealth nations are looking at an agreement that could begin conversations on […]
Chris Kaba, the unarmed man killed by a police firearms officer, was pictured on CCTV shooting a man on a nightclub dancefloor and was alleged to be a core member of a London gang, it can be revealed. A judge ruled on Tuesday that details of Kaba’s criminal past could be released, a day after […]
The British luxury handbag retailer Mulberry has rejected an increased £111m bid from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, describing it as untenable. Frasers, which already owns 37% of the company, increased its offer to 150p a share on 11 October from 130p, which had valued Mulberry at £83m. However, the retailer’s biggest shareholder, Challice, a group […]
Former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke appointed by MoJ to lead sentencing review Good morning. Michael Howard was Conservative leader at one point, and was instrumental in ensuring that David Cameron succeeded him in that job, but perhaps he will be best remembered for his time as home secretary in the 1990s, when he gave […]
Streeting revives claims that some patients facing avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current NHS failings Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has revived claims that some patients are receiving a “death sentence” because of the problems with the NHS. Speaking at a health centre in east London, where he was launching the consultation on the future […]
Shoppers with a habit of returning goods bought online to retailers will send back £1,400 of products each this year, totalling £6.6bn, a UK report has found. Serial returners account for 11% of shoppers, but are on course to account for almost a quarter of the £27bn forecast returns this year, according to the report […]
Growing numbers of travel companies are promoting holidays involving animal attractions through adverts that should be illegal in the UK under new legislation, campaigners say. MPs passed a law more than a year ago that gave ministers the power to ban tourism adverts that offer animal attractions, including elephant rides, but it has not yet […]
‘It was a terrible sensation when I heard the sentence: life.” It was 11 March 2016 and Daniela Poggiali had just been confirmed as Italy’s “angel of death”. Less than 18 months after she had first been arrested, in October 2014, the nurse was now the country’s most infamous killer, convicted of killing one elderly […]
Parts of the UK are expected to be hit by ferocious winds of up to 80mph this weekend as the first named storm of the season closes in. The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning ahead of Storm Ashley for the north-west of Scotland on Sunday, as well as a yellow warning for […]