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Long-term unemployed youths will be guaranteed paid work and could face being stripped of benefits if they refuse to take it up, Rachel Reeves will announce..

School closures and a free school meals “blunder” which ended in an embarrassing U-turn by Boris Johnson’s government during the pandemic are expected to be among issues scrutinised in upcoming hearings of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry..

The British Medical Association (BMA) has given the Health Secretary 48 hours to act and avoid going into dispute with GPs over online access plans which they claim could put the safety of patients and staff at risk..

Eating more fruit could reduce the impact of air pollution on the lungs, a study has suggested..

Artists are being invited to breathe life into the felled Sycamore Gap tree on the second anniversary of it being chopped down..

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, a group of scientists have found..

Graham Potter has been dismissed by West Ham after only nine months..

Hundreds of thousands more children are set to receive a free breakfast through a Government scheme, Bridget Phillipson has announced..

Guinness World Records is celebrating its 70th anniversary by looking back at the extraordinary feats achieved since its inception – as well as unveiling 70 wacky and unclaimed records..

The King and Queen will have a first meeting with the Pope during a state visit to Vatican City next month..

Education unions have warned that poverty continues to “rip through our communities and schools” as they added to growing calls for the Government to ditch the two-child limit..

A nursery worker who abused 21 babies has been jailed for eight years as parents of her victims condemned her “sickening” crimes and branded her the “worst kind of human”..

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders at the United Nations that his country “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war in Gaza..

The Scottish Conservatives have laid out a plan to cut red tape and end “woke” practices in Scotland’s business agencies..

White children from low-income backgrounds are already the most likely to be disengaged when they start secondary school, a study has found..

Former England rugby captain Chris Robshaw has said Strictly Come Dancing is “completely” out of his “comfort zone”..

Barack Obama was presented with the Freedom of the City of Dublin at a clandestine ceremony in the Irish capital..

The taxi driver who took Axel Rudakubana to the Southport attack has said he drove away despite seeing screaming children running “like a stampede for their lives” because he thought he heard gunshots..

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said parts of its IT systems are back online amid a “phased restart” of its operations as it continues to recover from a damaging cyber attack..

Liverpool teenager Rio Ngumoha has signed his first professional contract a month after turning 17 and a year after arriving from Chelsea..