Only a fraction of medical students are from working class backgrounds despite efforts to widen access to the profession, a report has suggested. A small number of schools and colleges produce a high ...

The water industry’s problems are not the “inevitable consequence” of privatisation, the chairman of a commission set up to examine reforms of the sector has said. The Government-appointed Independent ...

Children in youth custody were “failed” by multiple services long before they offended, the Children’s Commissioner has warned. Custody settings are often “compounding” the disadvantages children face ...

Co-op is launching an app to allow smaller, independent grocers to supply their customers with the speedy deliveries usually offered by their biggest competitors. With tens of thousands of independent ...

A refugee has said that taking up boxing at a centre which has received funding from Sport England “saved” her life. Dr Zin Myint said she was in a “bad place” after arriving in the UK three months ...

A bungalow where the composer Imogen Holst once lived has been protected with Grade II listed status. Holst, who died in 1984 aged 76, was the daughter of the renowned composer Gustav Holst, who is ...

Car production has fallen amid warnings that the industry is facing a “perfect storm”. The number of vehicles built in the UK last month fell by 17% compared with last January, said the Society of ...

The Crown Prosecution Service must “fundamentally change” the way it improves the quality of casework which has often been reduced to a “tick box exercise”, inspectors have warned. An internal system ...

Rhianan Rudd, 16, was found dead at a children’s home in May 2022, five months after terrorism charges against her were dropped.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will announce on Thursday whether Gatwick’s expansion plan can go ahead. She has a deadline of the end of the day to decide whether to approve a development consent ...

Gatwick says the plan will cost £2.2 billion. – Who will pay for it? The airport says the project will be privately-financed. It has pledged to meet the cost without hiking charges to airlines. – When ...

Half of pregnant women, those on maternity leave, and those returning from maternity leave said they had a negative experience at work, says report.