Browsing: England

The government has reneged on a pledge to make all prison cells fire-safe or take them out of use by the end of next year, meaning…

About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall – will need to be given over to nature, forests and…

Pat had been in trouble with the police before, when she was 16 and had been spat out of the care system with no qualifications, no…

Three-quarters of nine-month-old babies in England are allowed daily screen time, while a small “heavy use” group watch more than three hours a day, according to…

More than 500,000 women in England are to be offered a drug on the NHS that prevents hot flushes.The green light for Veoza, also known as…

Almost a third of people in England now use private dentistry, with a sharp rise in the number of poorer households forced to pay for fillings…

More than 400 lives may have been saved as a result of Martha’s rule, which lets NHS patients request a review of their care, official figures…

There are urban areas of England where no one lives within a 15-minute walk of nature, government data shows, as ministers scramble to meet their access…

Schools in England are moving away from pupils dressing up as their favourite literary characters for World Book Day, with experts telling MPs they feared the…

A poet is threatening Arts Council England (ACE) with legal action after a magazine it funds withdrew her work from publication based on her “social media…