Emilia Belli Westminster correspondent, BBC Wales News Mel Wallace Mel Wallace was a keen motorbike rider but now, as she waits for a hip replacement, she struggles to put her own socks on NHS patients from Wales who need knee and hip operations in England face lengthy delays after a health board asked English hospitals … Read more
Police Commissioner N. Shashikumar speaking at Gurudev Sambhrama in Dharwad recently. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Setting a clear goal combined with self-confidence will simplify the path to success in competitive examinations, Police Commissioner of Hubballi-Dharwad N. Shashikumar has said. He was inaugurating Gurudev Sambhrama, a felicitation programme organised by Gurudev IAS, KAS and Banking … Read more
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental … Read more
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental … Read more
Kerala State Human Rights Commission Chairperson Alexander Thomas has asked the Ernakulam District Collector to look into a complaint about the unfair collection of parking fees at the district collectorate and to take a decision within two months. The Commission asked the petitioner to forward the complaint and possible solutions to the Collector. The Collector … Read more
The High Court has heard claims that the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission, “acted irrationally” when it registered England’s first private clinic offering gender treatment to under-18s. The case, brought by a former nurse and the mother of a 16-year-old, claims the watchdog did not consider all relevant information and should also have imposed … Read more
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Congress on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must immediately chair an all-party meeting upon his return from his three-nation tour to brief leaders on what he has told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephonic conversation and … Read more
The government has written to Sainsbury’s and Morrisons asking them to stop “advertising and promoting” heated tobacco products, which it says is against the law. The BBC reported in February the supermarkets were displaying posters and video screens showing devices which create a nicotine-containing vapour by heating tobacco with an electric current. At the time, … Read more
Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more
Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more