Purgatory News

NHS workers are being urged to accept a 5.5% pay increase with a union describing the offer from the Scottish Government as the best negotiable under current circumstances..

Magistrates have been ordered to delay jailing criminals in a bid to ease prison overcrowding as the number of people behind bars hit a new weekly high..

An animal welfare charity has called on the Scottish Government to urgently act upon fresh evidence of a loophole in fox hunting laws that it claims could allow mounted hunting to continue in Scotland..

Jude Bellingham faces a spell on the sidelines through injury and could miss the start of Englands Nations League campaign..

The life of an extraordinary girl who was killed in the Southport knife attack has been remembered with balloons, bubbles and one of her favourite Taylor Swift songs at her funeral..

Parents of children with additional needs have spoken about how they are at their wits end on how to secure school places for this academic year..

Carol Vorderman has taken aim at controversial decisions by BBC management following the Huw Edwards scandal..

Two stages at Leeds Festival have closed for the day due to high winds caused by Storm Lilian..

A body believed to be that of Mike Lynchs 18-year-old daughter has been located in the wreckage of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, meaning all missing passengers have now been found..

The average household energy bill is to increase by 10% from October after Ofgem said it was increasing its price cap as households approach the winter months..

Vice President Kamala Harris told Americans they have a chance to chart a new way forward in November as she accepted her partys nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention..

Former footballer Jermaine Jenas has been been sacked from presenting BBC programmes The One Show and Match Of The Day..

GCSE results show the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis are still having a disproportionate impact on some English regions such as the North East, it has been suggested..

Police are urgently trying to find two American bulldog-type dogs, one of which may have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of his home..

Detectives have named a man they are hunting over the murder of a parcel delivery driver..

Israeli air strikes overnight and into Thursday have killed at least 16 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials say..

The NHS spending watchdog has recommended that a drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimers disease should not be rolled out on the health service, despite the UK medicines regulator saying it is safe and effective for use..

The body of technology tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, as his 18-year-old daughter reportedly remains missing..

The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has fallen from last year but is higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic, national figures show..

The gender pay gap might even extend to the bank of Mum and Dad, a new survey has suggested, after it found sons receive more help from their families than daughters when buying their first home..