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A South London hospital has been told it still needs to improve its services following an inspection by the Care ...

MOST people are content to just read a novel on holiday. But Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, decided to write one while ...

Bureaucracy and not enough midwives are among many issues plaguing the current system, says Dr Lorin Lakasing ...

Len Deighton, bestselling author of thrillers that reinvented the spy novel, who has died aged 97, didn't much like his job.

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The organisers of the St Patrick’s Festival has said that over half a million people lined the streets of Dublin for the parade. Over 3,000 performers, artists and musicians took part alongside 165 ...

Doc Martin star Eileen Atkins once faced a financial disaster that almost bankrupted her and her husband. The actress, who played Ruth Ellingham in 46 episodes of the Martin Clunes show, might have a ...

LAST Tuesday saw the end of the longest strike by directly employed staff in NHS history. Had it continued, today would have marked a full year of industrial action.Instead, the Gloucestershire ...

The happy news follows a tumultuous few years for the 43-year-old royal, who announced his divorce from his wife of eight years, Elia Zaharia, in a series of events that were anything but smooth.

A LEGENDARY Darlington rocking rhythm and blues band formed nearly 50 years ago are playing their first hometown gig for nearly a decade at the ...

New NHS figures suggest how a rule change named after a youngster who died when her care was not escalated could have saved more than 400 lives. Martha's Rule was brought in to allow NHS patients, ...