A major trial to determine if an innovative 10-minute sponge test should be used to screen people with heartburn for oesophageal cancer has welcomed its first patients.

The results showed a five-year downward trend in the number of people saying they were always able to get help from staff during labour and birth.

Khalife, who grew up in south-west London, passed secret information to Iranian agents after joining the British Army.

Mr Putin said that over the past two days Russia had fired 100 missiles and 466 drones at Ukraine, saying they were a ...

Former soldier Daniel Khalife has been found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets and Terrorism Acts by collecting sensitive information and passing it to agents of Iran. The 23-year-old spy, who ...

Khalife made his escape in September last year, while being held on remand over spy charges, by strapping himself underneath a food delivery lorry.

The Competition and Markets Authority said fuel margins remained higher than historic levels, and it remained concerned about weakened competition.

Estimates of migration to and from the UK typically undergo a number of revisions as more data becomes available, but the scale of the latest revisions – a jump of 166,000 in the total for the year to ...

The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

The UK’s asylum system now costs £5 billion – the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.43 billion, up 36% from £3.95 ...

The emergency departments at the James Paget University Hosptial and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital have been scored among the best ...

An Anglian Water storm overflow has been discharging sewage into a Norfolk Broads river for more than a week following heavy rain.