Sir Keir Starmer has announced a U-turn on last year's controversial cuts to winter fuel payments.More than nine million pensioners lost out on payments worth up to £300 after ...

Senior government figures are discussing whether to reverse the controversial decision to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners within weeks.More than nine million pensioners lost out on ...

Paul SeddonPolitical reporterHenry ZeffmanChief political correspondentJohner Images/Getty ImagesThe government has insisted it will not reverse cuts to winter fuel payments, despite growing calls within Labour ranks for a rethink ...

2 days agoWe asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "winter walks". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around ...

Getty ImagesBumblebees normally hibernate over winterBumblebees have been found to be starting nests in the depths of winter due to climate change, say conservationists.The charity Buglife said active worker ...

Getty ImagesThe health secretary has said some patients' experience of the NHS this winter makes him feel "ashamed".Wes Streeting said he had seen patients left crying and distressed and ...

EFE/REX/ShutterstockTens of thousands of pensioners are unlikely to receive their Winter Fuel Payments before the end of the year as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been ...

BBCStonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solsticesHundreds of people have gathered at Stonehenge to see the winter solstice sunrise.From 21 December, the shortest day of ...

Fewer people came forward for their flu vaccine last year and if the same happens again the UK could be in for a worse winter, health officials are warning. ...

Unite, one of Labour's trade union backers, will try to force a vote on reversing the government's cuts to the winter fuel allowance at the party's conference in Liverpool. ...

BBCThe government is planning to restrict winter fuel payments to only those pensioners who are receiving pension credit.BBC Verify has been looking at some of the claims made about ...

ReutersThe Chancellor says blame for the decision to cut payments falls on the Conservatives - something they denyChancellor Rachel Reeves has urged Labour MPs to back her plan to ...