The UK Health Security Agency said the patients attended Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre.

The Government has blocked 11 foreign “far-right agitators” from entering the UK for a Tommy Robinson-led demonstration on Saturday. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the Unite the Kingdom rally’s ...

Andy Burnham is Labour’s “best chance” of winning the “tough” Makerfield by-election, Wes Streeting has said as Labour’s ruling body prepares to decide on the Manchester mayor’s candidacy.

New MSP Calum Kerr elected for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, succeeding Christine Grahame. Local roots and community focus ...

The performer was found guilty of negligent homicide over the fatal shooting of Olympic skier Vladimir ‘Spider’ Sabich in 1976.

Africa’s top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. The deaths ...

Leanne Lucas said people ‘not involved’ in her care ‘abused their position of trust’ when she was at her most vulnerable.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children. Emergency workers finished digging ...

The UK may see a small number of cases of hantavirus in the wake of an outbreak on a cruise ship – but an expert in infectious diseases has said it is “very, very unlikely” it will be “akin to the ...

Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he wanted to return to Westminster to ‘make politics work properly for people’.