Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsGetty Images140 tonnes of plutonium is currently being stored at Sellafield, the nuclear site in Cumbria The government says it will dispose of its 140 ...

The UK’s only drug consumption roomWelcome to the Thistle - the UK's first and only drug consumption room.After nearly a decade of deadlock and wrangling over drug laws the ...

BBC/Kevin ChurchThese footprints were made 166 million years ago as a dinosaur walked across a lagoonThe UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in ...

No 10 Downing StreetThe government has repeatedly claimed that it has inherited a previously undisclosed £22bn “black hole” in the nation's finances from the Conservatives.Ministers have used the figure ...

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged Iran to "refrain" from attacking Israel during a phone call with Iran's new president. Sir Keir told Masoud Pezeshkian there was ...

BBC/Kevin ChurchThe Royal Mint says there is value in things we are throwing awayThe company has built a large industrial plant on its site in Llantrisant in Wales to ...

6 hours agoBy Nick Triggle, Health correspondent, BBC News, @nicktriggle • Jim Reed, Health reporter, BBC NewsPAThe failures and weaknesses in the UK's pandemic preparations are expected to be laid out in the first report ...

2 days agoBy Lora Jones, Business reporter, BBC NewsReuters"Serious" and "determined" are words often used to describe Rachel Reeves, the former Bank of England economist who has become the UK's first ...

Reform UK has launched what it calls its 'contract' with voters, which includes income tax and spending cuts.Reform's planned tax cuts would cost nearly £90bn per year, and spending ...

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty ImagesFigures released in February by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed the UK fell into a recession in the second half of 2023.GDP fell by ...

The Middlesex Hospital in central London came to the attention of millions around the world when Princess Diana visited it in 1987. It was the first hospital in the ...

Alex Brown, director of Skyports Drone Services, said: "By leveraging drone technology, we are revolutionising mail services in remote communities, providing more efficient and timely delivery, and helping to ...