More than £30,000 of taxpayer money has been spent on creating a new logo for nationalised rail services, Sky News can reveal. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander unveiled the emblem for Great British Railways (GBR) last month, the brand which nationalised trains in England will fall under. Politics Hub: Follow latest …
Read More »Wiltshire woman to walk 115km after surviving two heart attacks
Sue Davies,BBC Radio Wiltshireand Kirsten Robertson,Wiltshire Cathy Read Cathy Read has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD) A woman is planning to walk 115km to raise awareness of a rare condition which caused her to have two heart attacks. Cathy Read from Chippenham in Wiltshire has survived two spontaneous …
Read More »Why Trump chose Delcy, not Machado
Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondent Who is Venezuela’s new interim president, Delcy Rodríguez? Amid the many questions swirling since last weekend’s dramatic events in Caracas – and there are many – one that refuses to go away centres on the bespectacled woman now leading what US officials are calling Venezuela’s “interim authorities.” …
Read More »New app will allow pupils to view GCSE results digitally from summer 2026 | UK News
Year 11 pupils in England will soon be able to access their GCSE results on their phones, under government plans to modernise how exam records are stored and shared. The Department for Education has announced the national rollout of a new app, the Education Record, which allows students to view …
Read More »Lawyer for Rob Reiner’s son withdraws from case | World News
The arraignment of Rob Reiner’s son over the killing of his parents has been delayed after his high-profile defence lawyer withdrew from the case. A judge agreed to Alan Jackson’s request to exit the case during a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing on Wednesday, at which Nick Reiner, 32, was …
Read More »Kevin Keegan diagnosed with cancer: Former England player and manager undergoing treatment
Former England striker and manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer. Keegan had an illustrious playing career which included spells at Liverpool, Hamburg and Newcastle United, while he twice won the European Footballer of the Year award. He moved into management after ending his playing career and had stints …
Read More »‘We need early tests for babies with same condition as Jesy Nelson’s twins’
Tom Ingalland Hayley Coyle,Yorkshire BBC Kayleigh’s son Oscar was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy at ten days old A mother whose son was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) when he was ten days old has urged singer Jesy Nelson to “take all the help she can get” for the …
Read More »Century-old tumours could reveal why more young people are getting bowel cancer
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent BBC Holly was diagnosed with bowel cancer when she was 23 Bowel cancer samples that have been stored for up to a century will be analysed to try to solve the mysterious rise of the disease in young people. Despite the majority of bowel cancers …
Read More »Jesy Nelson campaigns for all babies to get test for muscle disease SMA
Ian YoungsCulture reporter PA Media Singer Jesy Nelson has pledged to “fight as much as I can” to get all babies tested for a rare muscle disease at birth, after revealing that her twin daughters had been diagnosed with the condition. At the weekend, the former Little Mix star said …
Read More »MND drug might ‘give me an extra year or two’
Aileen MoynaghBBC News NI health reporter BBC Michael Campbell was diagnosed with the terminal disease in February 2023 A Belfast actor who won high praise for playing Richard III in a wheelchair, is hoping a new clinical trial drug will help him in his fight against Motor Neurone Disease (MND). …
Read More »Wife takes campaign for brain tumour tissue changes to Parliament
Shelley Phelps,Wales Westminster correspondentand Alexandra Banfi,BBC Wales Ellie James Owain James, seen here with daughter Amelia and wife Ellie, died from a brain tumour in 2024 A woman whose husband died from a brain tumour aged 34 says she can’t “go back to life” as normal until she helps change …
Read More »‘People think my tremor condition is alcoholism’
A woman who shakes so badly she sometimes cannot leave the house has said finding other people with the same condition has helped her feel less alone. Leah Brown, from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, has suffered with uncontrollable shaking since the age of nine and was diagnosed with essential tremor at 27. …
Read More »Lockerbie bomb suspect confession video “lost or destroyed”
David CowanScotland home affairs correspondent Getty Images Of the 259 passengers and crew who died on board the airliner, 190 were from the United States A Lockerbie bombing suspect cannot get a fair trial because a video of his alleged confession has been “lost or destroyed”, his defence lawyers have …
Read More »Lockerbie bomb suspect confession video “lost or destroyed”
David CowanScotland home affairs correspondent Getty Images Of the 259 passengers and crew who died on board the airliner, 190 were from the United States A Lockerbie bombing suspect cannot get a fair trial because a video of his alleged confession has been “lost or destroyed”, his defence lawyers have …
Read More »Young dementia victim from Dereham dies leaving brain to science
Mariam Issimdarand Robby West,Dereham Samantha Fairbairn Andre Yarham, left, died over Christmas of dementia aged 24 after being diagnosed a year earlier A 24-year-old man who died over Christmas due to dementia has left his brain to researchers. Andre Yarham, who lived in Dereham, Norfolk, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia …
Read More »Essex mental health inquiry families call for answers
Stuart Woodward/BBC Sam Cook said her sister Paula Parretti had been “screaming from the rooftops” about her treatment, but “nobody would listen” The first public inquiry in England to look solely at the deaths of mental health patients will resume in February, having passed its halfway stage. The Lampard Inquiry …
Read More »SMA: ‘I was completely ignored’ over baby’s rare spinal condition
Parents of babies born with a life-limiting, rare condition say their diagnoses came months too late, and after they had initially raised the alarm about their symptoms. Lucian Neale was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) at six weeks old despite showing symptoms in his mother’s womb. His mother Samantha …
Read More »‘I want to tell Jesy Nelson, there’s hope’, says Newry mum
Toni Connor and Rebekah WilsonBBC News NI Joanne Watters Photography Hollie, now five, pictured with her mum Ann A County Down mother, whose five-year-old daughter has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), has said singer Jesy Nelson should know “there is light at the end of the tunnel”. The former Little Mix …
Read More »New drug is giving patients and doctors hope
[ Axial CT image with i.v. contrast. Macrocystic adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Credit: public domain Irene Blair was expected to have another six to eight months to live in June, after her pancreatic cancer rapidly advanced to stage 4 less than a year after her initial diagnosis. A new …
Read More »Hayley Erbert, Derek Hough welcome baby, 2 years after her life-saving surgery
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hayley Erbert and husband Derek Hough celebrated the birth of their daughter just before the new year. The new parents revealed their little one was born Dec. 29, 2025, in a heartwarming social media share posted Monday. “Every step of our lives …
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