University opens government-funded lab to help train biomedical scientists

The £2.5 million facility at the University of Essex, which includes a dedicated cancer diagnostics laboratory, was funded by the Office for Students.

Exclusive: Labour ramps up spending on the Home Office’s assisted voluntary returns programme by nearly 50 per cent but the Tories said they should ramp up efforts to stop illegal migrants arriving in the first place

Police say it is also not clear how long the remains have been at the location

Police say it is also not clear how long the remains have been at the location

It would be the first time the World Cup returned to the UK since 1966

Site includes pier and underground network of tunnels 

Iraqi national Hakim appeared by video-link accompanied by an interpreter at Westminster Magistrates’ Court

Prime minister urged to promise to extend the protection of Britain’s Armed Forces and nuclear deterrent across Europe, in exchange for access to the EU’s free-trade zone

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that investigations had linked salmonella cases to imported eggs

The celebrities could be forced to pay millions more to the publisher, which spent £34m defending the claims

The current outbreak is ‘unusually large and rapidly increasing,’ a health official warned

Metropolitan Police officers foiled the suspected jewellery heist

The man reportedly went overboard around 40 nautical miles from Anstruther, Fife, police said

Meteorologists warn El Nino could contribute to record global temperatures and the hottest year ever in 2027

Equalities minister warns racism and sexism are ‘becoming normal’ in the UK

‘The passengers want me to continue sharing the joy,’ father-of-six insists

Exclusive: Grant Harrold, who worked for the King and Queen Camilla, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and Prince Harry up until 2011, tells The Independent what Harry and Meghan’s shock return means for the royal family

The island is currently going for offers in excess of £2 million in what has been described as a ‘exceptionally rare’ opportunity

A headteacher claimed that Mark Steward was ‘unwilling to take instruction from women’

Ethel Caterham has lived through the Titanic disaster, both world wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall and six monarchs

Ismaeel Islam died at the Royal London Hospital on March 7, 2025

Members of the public could spot actors playing armed police alongside simulated emergency responses around the Houses of Parliament this coming weekend.

It comes after Prince Harry made several public criticisms about his brother and the royal family

An illegal immigrant has been jailed for life for murdering a man in the UK just three years after serving a sentence in Romania for a “strikingly similar” killing.

Royal Mail recently committed to satisfying Ofcom’s targets by May 2027 under a five-year, £500 million investment plan

Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer causing about 2,600 deaths a year in the UK

The former private school closed last year after reportedly facing ‘mounting financial pressures’

John Bell had been working in his neighbour’s garden when he was fatally struck by Fraser Garden’s stolen vehicle

The collector has ‘made quite a good return’, Wiltshire auction house says

Belinda Ellams, an agency nurse, was working at Millbrow Care Home in Cheshire, when she made comments such as Muslims are going to ‘kill all white people’