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Rich Renton, from Duns in the Scottish Borders, was driving with two colleagues on his usual collection route when the looming cloud caught his eye.

A hospitality leader has warned that there is likely to be severe workforce shortages in the industry unless action is taken. Kris Gumbrell, CEO of Brewhouse & Kitchen, says the loss of free movement will undoubtedly cause big issues in the hospitality sector which has a heavy reliance on European workers. A KPMG report for the British Hospitality Association found that EU nationals made up more than 75 per cent of waitstaff, as well as 43 per cent of the...

Scientists say knocking back beers, wine or spirits damages a gene that regulates shut-eye - potentially causing permanent insomnia

Ambulance workers’ annual earnings are down 18.2 per cent - and real terms cuts are set to continue. GMB, the union for NHS staff, has once again criticised Jeremy Hunt’s ‘paltry’ pay offer as new figures reveal show that average NHS earnings fell sharply in real terms between 2010 and March 2018. The NHS in England’s latest pay statistics, released today, show that average health workers’ earnings are down by £4,288 or 12 per cent since the public sector pay cap came into...

The potentially harmful impact of indoor air pollution on children is to be the subject of a major study for the first time in the UK, with experts saying it needs to be taken as seriously as outdoor pollutants. A new working group, led by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), has been established to study the effects of indoor air pollution on child health and what can...

The female mallard got the better of the bird of prey after jumping on its back mid-air, forcing it to drop its catch

Scottish scientists from the same institute that created "Dolly the Sheep" have created genetically modified pigs that are resistant to one of the world's deadliest animal diseases.

The research also found that only 15 per cent of people globally live in places where women and lower income groups have at least somewhat equal access to power

Millions of people who produce the food for supermarkets are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, with many going hungry, according to a new report on global supermarket supply chains, published today by Oxfam. Ripe for Change highlights how supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Asda, Aldi and Lidl, are increasingly squeezing the price they pay their suppliers with less and less of the price paid at the till reaching the small-scale farmers and workers who produce the food....