All news by author: Nigel Nelson

Labour's figures found that last year 12,460 cases had not come to trial for between one and two years, and 4,893 for more than two years

Many of the country’s 105,000 orphans were moved out of 700 institutions to stay with relatives ill-prepared to receive them when war broke out in Ukraine

According to the Ministry of Justice, only 71,138 community sentences were handed out in 2021 - down from 189,333 in 2010

Those who emigrated abroad have not had annual increases in their pensions for 70 years except where Britain has a reciprocal agreement with the country they now live in

Rishi Sunak plans to rip up remaining EU laws by the end of the year left on the statute book after Brexit - but experts worry that any relaxation in seatbelt rules will discourage people from wearing them

Labour is calling for BBC chair Richard Sharp to quit following a damning report today by MPs into his role helping Boris Johnson get an £800,000 loan

Ministers are supposed to stay in the most cost-effective hotels, under official guidelines - but Tory bigwigs have spent millions treating themselves to luxury on the taxpayer's tab

Yet the Government’s nosy parkers even insist councils get their go-ahead to scrape chewing gum off the streets

Furious Grant Shapps has also told watchdog Ofgem to get its act together after failing to haul British Gas over the coals for their appalling actions

The revelation came in the week it was announced Shell more than doubled its annual profit to £32billion – its biggest result ever - and sparked calls for an increase in taxes on energy giants

Following an experience with his wife in A&E, Sunday People's political editor Nigel Nelson has called for changes to the NHS - because 'a model designed in 1948 doesn’t work for 2023'

A sensational Sunday Mirror poll today shows that 48% who declared themselves Conservative voters last time either strongly support or support going to the ballot box in 2023 That rises to 61% of all voters

NHS trusts are set to trial new short-notice lists of people who live close to hospitals and can come in at the last moment when appointments are cancelled by other patients

New TUC boss Paul Nowak told the Sunday Mirror in an exclusive interview: “The PM must get me and union leaders into the room to sort this out. We’ll go to No10 tomorrow. The ball is in his court.”

Clinicians say potential donors and their families have become less inclined to offer organs while a record 7.2 million patients have treatment delayed.

The shadow Health boss wants to buy excess capacity in the private sector to carry out 233,000 procedures a year to cut NHS waiting lists if Keir Starmer becomes PM

The CPS said it is considering whether to appeal the decision which cleared Radical Haslam, 29, of Salford and Ruth Wood, 52, of Cambridge of harassing IDS with threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour

Rishi Sunak announced £2.1billion of levelling up funding last week to much fanfare but received a furious backlash from local authorities which did not get any

Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived

In her brief spell as PM Ms Truss wanted to extend the support for three and four year olds from 30 hours to 50 hours a week

The increase will see the typical dual user paying £500 more a year than the £2,500 they do now even though wholesale prices are falling.

Christina McAnea of 1.4million member Unison says a National Care Service fully integrated with the NHS is the only way to stop 13,000 patients fit to leave hospital staying put and holding up new admissions because they have nowhere to go

Mr Johnson took his entourage of 24 out for a meal plus booze while attending the United Nations General Assembly on 21st September 2021

New MoD figures show that at the Navy’s largest training camp at HMS Collingwood in Fareham, Hants heating systems have gone down nearly 400 times since last February

A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped