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Britain’s second homes “crisis”
Our home affairs correspondent Andy Davies has visited towns in Wales where some say that second home ownership is a threat to their very identity.
Boris Johnson outlines skeleton plans for ‘levelling up’
"Levelling up" is a phrase often used by the prime minister. Today in a speech in Coventry he took the opportunity to lay out the skeleton of what that means.
The garlic-fed cows combating global warming
A report published today on a plan for a national food strategy did not just deal with what we eat, but also how we produce it in a sustainable way.
Barriers preventing undocumented migrants from accessing Covid vaccines should be removed, GP says
I spoke with Dr Krishna Kasaraneni of the BMA's GP committee. I began by asking him his reaction to the findings.
GP surgeries wrongfully rejecting undocumented migrants, leaving many unable to get Covid jab
People without the right paperwork are struggling to access Covid vaccines because they are wrongfully being turned away from GP surgeries.
NHS may be unable to cope with expected rise in winter viruses, report says
A report out today says the NHS may be unable to cope with the rise in winter viruses that's expected.
Debate: Do we need a sugar and salt tax?
We spoke to the co-founder of Leon restaurants and lead author of the National Food Strategy, Henry Dimbleby, and Green MP Caroline Lucas.
PM distances himself from key recommendation in healthy eating report
Years in the making but with key solutions seemingly ruled out by the Prime Minister within hours of publication. Will the National Food Strategy ever be put into practice?
Most Covid restrictions in Wales likely to end on 7 August
In Wales, it was announced that most Covid restrictions are likely to be lifted on August 7.
Zero-pollution refrigerated truck trailers trialled to cut diesel use
The government has announced that the sale of new diesel lorries is to be banned from 2040, as part of its transport decarbonisation plan.
‘A hellishly difficult problem’ to solve prosecutions relating to the Troubles, says negotiator in Northern Ireland peace process
Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair in Downing Street and was intimately involved in the Northern Ireland peace process.
What the British government intends to do is dance on the graves of our loved ones, says son of Ballymurphy massacre victim
John Teggart, whose father, Danny, was among the victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre in 1971, is a spokesman for the families of 10 people who were killed during those three days of shooting.
Government facing opposition to plan to end Northern Ireland Troubles prosecutions
It's estimated 3,500 people were killed in the decades of conflict in Northern Ireland that came to be known as the Troubles. The question of how to give their families justice has been a matter of tension and debate ever since.
‘Countless families’ living in poor accommodation in England, says former Children’s Commissioner
The former Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, is now specialist adviser to the public services committee in the Lords and is looking at how reforming services can address the growing problem of child vulnerability.
The reality of British children in poverty: no beds to sleep in or clean clothes to wear
Exclusive. Britain's leading children's charities are warning that cuts to children's services, which are having the greatest impact on the poorest, most vulnerable families, risk leaving a “damaging legacy”.