A cross-party group of MPs has told prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham he should allow councils to increase council tax by as much as they want.
A fifth British national has been identified as a victim of a wildfire in southern Spain in which killed more than a dozen people.
The persistent disadvantage gap in schools will be an "early challenge" for the next prime minister, researchers are warning.
Twelve people have been arrested over an "extreme right-wing terrorism" threat to an Islamic event in Suffolk.
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World-leading medical research in the UK is not yet delivering better health outcomes for enough people in the country, according to a new report.
A new vaccine to combat a strain of Ebola spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will soon be tested on adults in the UK, under plans announced today.
More than 2,700 people in England and Wales died from heat-related causes during May and June's record hot spells, experts estimate.
A British woman who was taken to hospital after a wildfire swept through southern Spain has become the 13th person to die in the tragedy, officials in the Andalusia region have said.
Brendon McCullum is to stand down as England's Test coach, it has been announced.