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Wes Streeting said his own experience of kidney cancer had made him focus on his health ‘but the nature of my job means my exercise has suffered’.

Richard Hughes, facing the Commons Treasury Committee, rejected the suggestion the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast was now driving policy.

Three men have admitted rioting in the Ely area of Cardiff following the deaths of Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, in 2023.

Noah Smedley, 18, was fatally injured in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, just days after Christmas last year.

The UK’s largest water supplier also revealed a sharp increase in pollution incidents over the past year.

The current system is ‘piecemeal’ with no organisations whose ‘primary objective’ is protecting the dignity of the deceased, the inquiry has found.

Akhmed Yakoob stood in Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s Birmingham Ladywood constituency in the last general election and came second.

The BBC has been criticised for a number of failings in recent months which included breaching its own accuracy guidelines and misconduct allegations.

A timeline of events in the data breach and how governments responded to it.

The retired teacher told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he believes police had ‘coached youngsters’ to make allegations.

The 58-year-old was speaking as the BBC unveiled its annual report.

Dame Jackie Baillie said Scotland should welcome the US President, who is set to visit the country later this month.

However Scottish Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson continued to insist the legislation, introduced after Brexit, should be repealed.

The PA news agency looks at superinjunctions and what made this one the first-of-its kind.

The senior backbencher called for greater accountability in politics by reducing the ‘cloud of quangos’ in the system.

Three further areas – Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, East Anglia, and Thames area – move into prolonged dry weather status.

Changes include reforming the bank ring-fencing regime and reducing burdensome regulation in the City.

It is part of a secret £850 million scheme.

The 64-year-old was reported to have earned between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 in the corporation’s latest annual report for 2024/2025.

There are no non-white people in the top 10, and only three women.