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The PM unveiled a "historic" 10-year plan for the NHS that will see funding boosted by £20.5billion a year by 2023-24. Health chiefs claim up to 500,000 lives could be saved over the next decade. However, one union has criticised the plan to fill the 100,000 staffing black hole. They believe the plan can't be delivered without the staff to undertake the work. They claim the much-delayed announcement completely ignores the NHS greatest assets – its workforce – and fails...

Stephen Hicks, 57, is finally behind bars after committing the sick offences in 1979

Scientists say a breed of penguins found on the coast of South America are among the most faithful couples in the animal kingdom - despite spending months apart each year

The calf appears to have one giant eye and no nose, in a video which locals claim hasn't been edited

Wife Simbiso Aretha Moula, 39, was found strangled while husband Garikayi Moula, 51, was found hanged at their home in Rainham on Friday

A protest held by the TSSA union greeted commuters on Monday morning demanding ScotRail is brought back into public ownership

Lee Pomeroy, 51, had been taking his 14-year-old son for a day-trip ahead of his 52nd birthday when he was stabbed nine times on the 12.58pm service from Guildford to Waterloo on Friday.

This morning 100-150 lorries were supposed to turn up to a disused airport to stage a huge fake traffic jam. The idea was to see how we would cope during a No-deal Brexit scenario and the expected travel (and other) chaos. Unfortunately only around 90 vehicles turned up to the airstrip, at the old Manston airport, in Kent. The convoy of lorries then set off at just after 8am from the disused airfield, on a 20-mile route to the Port...

Piers Morgan has been hilariously trolled on Twitter after he used a 1400 year-old olive tree in Puglia to give "perspective to Remoaners", only to learn that the EU intervened with €7 million of funding to save the trees in 2015. The outspoken media personality tweeted at the weekend that he had driven past an ancient tree which has survived "over 1350 years longer than the European Union has existed". He added that it should offer "hysterical Remoaners a little perspective",...