A “gang” of consultant neurosurgeons suppressed warnings about patient safety years before police were called in to investigate 40 patient deaths, a whistleblower has claimed. Mansoor Foroughi, a ...

Everyone in Britain should be given a digital ID incorporating their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work as the cornerstone of a “technology revolution”, Sir Tony ...

The England prop Joe Marler has tested positive for Covid-19 and will miss this weekend’s Autumn Nations Series clash against Australia. Marler, 31, began isolating for ten days yesterday evening ...

At least 22 Covid-19 patients on ventilators in an Indian hospital died after a large tank supplying oxygen to the wards suddenly ruptured cutting off the flow. The main storage cylinder outside the ...

Vaccination centres and schools remained closed this morning after more snow coated the country during the coldest winter night in a decade. Temperatures plunged to minus 16.7C in the Highlands early ...

The Serious Fraud Office has dropped its investigation into British American Tobacco over allegations that it bribed government officials in Africa. After more than three years of investigation the ...

When the Kray twins ruled the East End of London in the 1960s, organised crime was a man’s world where bosses controlled their illicit businesses through the threat of physical violence. But times ...

Last March this newspaper reported the concerns of scientists who said that Britain’s shortage of capacity to manufacture a vaccine amounted to a national security risk. They included Peter Piot, ...

Most of England will fall under the toughest Covid-19 restrictions tomorrow as ministers warn that a new strain of the virus may be driving big rises in the southeast. Matt Hancock, the health ...

Students in Dublin will not be offered free Covid-19 tests before travelling home for Christmas despite the prevalence of the virus in the capital being three times that of Cork, where pupils can be ...

The South Pacific territory of New Caledonia will hold a referendum on independence from France tomorrow, in a region increasingly dominated by the rivalry between China and the West. A “yes” vote ...

Nick Hornby’s new novel, Just Like You, is about a white woman in her forties dating a black man in his twenties. Like all his work it is incredibly readable. Unlike his other work, though, it has few ...