The academics added: “Although non-daily smokers report smoking fewer cigarettes and weaker urges to smoke than they used to, which may make it easier for them to stop smoking, they appear to be ...

Consumers are being urged to avoid buying e-bikes and e-scooters from rogue online sellers because of the risk of deadly fires. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) warned that faulty parts ...

Some of the BBC’s major radio stations saw audiences rally amid of summer of sport and entertainment, but local radio shows have suffered a drop in listeners, figures show. Radio 5 Live recorded a ...

Companies should be fined for failing to follow rules aimed at cutting sales of unhealthy food, to tackle the “public health emergency” posed by obesity, peers have said. Businesses would be required ...

The UK should enact wide-ranging restrictions on “forever chemicals”, which could have the potential to harm humans, scientists have urged. A group of more than 50 scientists from the UK and around ...

A £20 million initiative that aims to tackle the “historically low” numbers of people enrolled into dementia clinical trials is being launched in the UK. The Dementia Trials Accelerator, funded by the ...

There is an ‘urgent national interest argument’ for controlling the number of students that can be recruited by individual universities, a ...

If made law, the Data Use and Access Bill could help grow the economy by £10 billion, the Government has claimed, by helping to cut costs, save time and drive more data-sharing to help both businesses ...

Since then, Jacob and his father Andrew have completed several fundraising expeditions both in the UK and abroad, raising more than £160,000 for St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds, which looked after his ...