Labour’s plan for benefits throws up a bigger dilemma
The debate has sparked a wider dilemma about the broader purpose of welfare
Health
What are the Pip and universal credit changes and who is affected?
The government says changes to the welfare system will save £5bn and get people into work.
At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up
How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans.
Probe into claims people allowed in to watch hospital surgeries
It is not clear how the individuals gained access to the operating theatres or who gave permission.
‘Chubby filter’ pulled from TikTok after user backlash
Critics say the AI tool - which made people look overweight - was a form of body-shaming.
Repeated failures in reading scans costing lives, ombudsman says
The most common issues include clinicians not spotting abnormalities, and scans being delayed.
Newborn’s death ‘due to gross failures of midwives’
The coroner at newborn baby Ida Lock's inquest highlights eight opportunities that were missed.
What nine months in space does to the human body
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?
‘The discrimination I face on public transport is inhumane’
A report by parliament's cross-party-transport select committee says accessibility failings are "systematic" across all modes of transport.
