The Water Commission finds "deep-rooted, systemic and interlocking failures" in the water industry.

Farmers are raising questions over how checks will ensure US beef produced using hormones doesn't enter the UK market.

It follows another set of families being evacuated from their homes in Harlow.

World War Two hero, who you've never heard of, carried out the greatest sea rescue ever

Government faces fresh battle with health unions who refuse to rule out return to picket lines in protest against 'devastating' job cuts

Making it harder for people to come to this country to work, study or stay may get the immigration numbers down, but it’s also a one-way ticket to plummeting growth, argues Jonathan Portes

Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

I want the government to hold a referendum on whether the UK should Rejoin the European Union.

Sending thoughts and prayers.

Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land

Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

I call on the government to automatically fast track anyone diagnosed with a terminal illness, not just those in their final year of life, so they can get essential financial support. We think this wo...

Energy Bills in the UK are some of the highest in Europe & at the same time the Energy Firms continue to make large profits Introduce an Annual Windfall Tax on the most profitable firms & use the mon...

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