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A new bill, supported by the Indiana-based Safe Haven Baby Boxes, would give fire stations and hospitals the option to install the group's ventilated and climate-controlled boxes, where parents could drop off their babies

Around 60,000 junior doctors walked out yesterday and will not return until 7am at Saturday, making it the most disruptive strike in NHS history

The International Monetary Fund thinks UK plc will shrink 0.3%, and the only other advanced economy in the G7 group expected to decline is Germany’s, by 0.1%

Lauren Boebert's son, Tyler, was involved in a car crash in September, 2022, in which he flipped his dad's SUV, landing on a creek bed - friend Noble D'Amato has spoken out about the injuries he received in the crash

The ex-PM has faced speculation he could attempt to switch to Henley, where he used to be the MP, after his majority in Uxbridge and South Ruislip dipped at the last election

Former US president Donald Trump is facing several lawsuits in the state of New York, alongside his recent indictment relating to hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the 2016 presidential campaign

A study by Durham University warns the Life in the UK citizenship test is littered with errors and out-of-date information as it called for an urgent shake-up

Smokers will be encouraged to switch their fags for free vapes as part of a new government scheme, but health experts say the plans don't go 'far enough'

In an interview with The Mirror, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi questioned whether the Home Secretary has the skills to do her job and called on Rishi Sunak to "get a grip", claiming Ms Braverman was dragging the government "into the gutter"

Insiders claim that several senior Tories are 'unhappy' after being told they won't get plus-ones at Westminster Abbey on May 6 - with one saying spouses 'sacrifice a lot for their other half'

The floundering PM reportedly hopes that breaking with the convention of going to the polls in the spring will give him more time to turn around a gaping Labour lead.

Labour plans to focus its attention on Mr Sunak's economic policies having been criticised over a series of ads on Tory failures tackling crime, with Keir Starmer branding the PM the "chief architect" of the UK's economic woes

One of the biggest strikes by medics starts today, with warnings of cancelled appointments and ­operations, as staff battle for better pay

New figures show the average two-year fixed-rate mortgage in January last year was £837, but 12 months later this had risen to an eye-watering £1,303 - a £466 increase

Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Tory ministers had been 'asleep at the wheel' over cash lost to fraud and error by DWP

Responsibility for the four-day strike starting in England today rests with this penny-pinching, incompetent and unnecessarily confrontational Government

Ex-Cabinet minister David Davis said he would like to see ministers delay the multi-million pound policy and re-think, but admitted the Government was unlikely to do so at this 'late stage'

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey shared a picture of herself standing next to the River Deben estuary in Suffolk. where bad weather meant the bank is covered in sludge

A police van is seen being pelted by petrol bombs as it is parked at a road junction in social media footage ahead of the visit of Joe Biden to Northern Ireland

The tiny shepherd's hut and stone barn sit close to the village of East Prawle in South Devon, with the plot's £475,000 price tag twice that of the UK's average property value

Inmates at HMP Frankland are said to be 'excited' over the possibility of making and receiving calls from their cell - some have said the idea would 'sicken' taxpayers and victims

Data from YouGov reveals 57% believe leading politicians should show more compassion, compared with 9% who say they are already too compassionate

The Good Friday Agreement has saved hundreds of lives and given the province a fresh start, but now voices are being raised that it is failing the very people it is designed to protect

Labour has been heavily criticised following a series of adverts shared on Twitter attacking Rishi Sunak on crime - including one claiming he doesn't think paedophiles should be locked up

Delays are forcing one in three patients to give up and get themselves to hospital in taxis, buses and on trains, according to a new survey, symbolising a wider national decline