A bus company has become the first in Britain to offer free travel to the HOMELESS. Rough sleepers will be able to get hold of special passes which enable them to travel cost-free, as part of a scheme which was launched yesterday (Mon). National Express West Midlands will be distributing ...
By Ben Martin, Green Economy Coalition Today is World Health Day, which every year is a great excuse for journalists and editors to trot out finger-wagging articles about how unhealthy we’re all getting. We’re drinking too much, not exercising enough, our food is basically just sugar and chemicals, and our lungs ...
Kevin McCarthy got down on one knee when he learned the love of his life, Mandy Lucitt, was suffering from incurable pancreatic cancer.
A cancer patient recovering from a life-saving operation was forced to sleep in a hospital CUPBOARD because of a bed shortage. Shocking images show Martyn Wells, 49, lying in the cramped windowless room after being wheeled into the makeshift ward just hours after having his stomach removed. The father-of-four has ...
There are more than 24 million commuters in the UK today, and the average travel time to work for London commuters is 79 minutes. Reports have found that non-active commutes, such as on buses and trains, have a detrimental effect on both the physical and mental health of commuters, in ...
The last few days have seen the issue of street violence in London and elsewhere unusually occupying headline space as the realisation appears, at last, to be dawning that the thinning blue line are struggling to maintain control of our streets. This has been clearly illustrated by the tragic events ...
The Home Office has been called on to help a five-year-old with epilepsy whose mother says cannabis oil is the only treatment that can ease his suffering. Karen Gray, 43, launched a petition for Cannabidiol (CBD) oil to be prescribed to her son Murray, who was diagnosed with Myoclonic Astatic ...
Thousands of people could be in Cambridge today (sat) to witness the funeral of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.
What happens when populism fails to deliver on its far-flung promises? With a year to go until Britain's official break from Europe that is a question that seems to be gaining relevance as a likely outcome of the process gets pieced together. There will be no "taking back control" at ...