The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

A tug capsized in less than 10 seconds with the loss of two lives because of a “breakdown of the systems that should have kept them safe”, marine investigators have found. The Biter capsized while ...

A court in Greenland again decided on Wednesday to extend the custody of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson until December 4, while Denmark considers a Japanese extradition request. Japan does not ...

The pub group said the rise in employers’ National Insurance contributions will cost it £3 million with a further £5 million due in ...

A new group has met to try and transform the region's economic growth potential. The first York and North Yorkshire Development Forum, held at York Biotech Campus, brought together developers behind ...

Scrum-half Tomos Williams will miss Wales’ Autumn Nations Series clash against Australia on Sunday. Williams is understood to have suffered a shoulder injury during the 24-19 defeat against Fiji, ...

SSE boss Alistair Phillips-Davies is to retire after more than 11 years at the helm, as the energy company reported a more than one-quarter jump in profit. Mr Phillips-Davies oversaw SSE’s exit from ...

A domestic abuser who murdered his ex-partner and her new boyfriend should have his whole life sentence reduced as it is “not necessary”, the Court of Appeal has been told. Marcus Osborne was jailed ...

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has been urged to intervene after a Co Tyrone man was arrested in the UAE over an online review he posted. Craig Ballentine, 33, from Cookstown, was ...

Scotland’s First Minister has given farmers a “cast-iron” guarantee to return £46 million taken from the agriculture budget to combat the cost-of-living crisis. The cash was taken in 2022 and 2023 as ...

Song Jae-lim, a South Korean actor known for his roles in K-dramas Moon Embracing the Sun and Queen Woo, has been found dead at his home in the capital Seoul. He was 39. Officials at Seoul’s Seongdong ...

Republic of Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson was unaware of the controversy surrounding Robbie Keane’s visit to the camp but says the former captain’s presence was “a good thing” for his squad.