Joe Skirkowski BBC News, Gloucestershire PA Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince and Stroud MP Dr Simon Opher are behind the pilot scheme Football tickets will be made available on prescription to help treat symptoms of depression, under a pilot scheme. Labour MP for Stroud, Dr Simon Opher, and Ecotricity founder and owner of Forest […]
Chris Craddock BBC Jersey communities reporter BBC Sports groups like Skateboard Jersey were at ‘Every Girl Moves’ Girls have been encouraged to get involved in different sports at an event where they could have a go at a range of them. The ‘Every Girl Moves’ event was held at Les Quennevais School on Monday with […]
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Jonah Fisher/BBC Between May and July 2025 10,000 tests for water pollution at the Environment Agency’s Starcross laboratory in Devon were cancelled Thousands of water tests to identify potential harmful pollution in rivers, lakes and estuaries in England have been cancelled in the last three months due to staff shortages, […]
BBC Listen to Joe read this article When Imogen arrived at the University of Nottingham in September 2022, she carried with her a letter addressed to the student wellbeing services. As a teenager, she struggled with anxiety and self-harm. The letter, written by her former head of year, was a direct plea to the university […]
Nick Triggle Health correspondent Getty Images The NHS is facing a challenging few days during the doctors’ strike in England as it attempts to keep as many services as possible running, said the health secretary. Wes Streeting said while it was not possible to eliminate disruption from the five-day strike by resident doctors, it was […]
Reuters The Lionesses posed for a picture with their trophy before the Downing Street reception The England women’s football team were greeted by cheering crowds as they returned home on Monday after their Euro 2025 victory over Spain. Hundreds of fans holding flags and banners and dressed in England kits were waiting outside Southend Airport […]
Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images It felt like there was a collective sigh of relief when a study, published this week, suggested 10,000 steps a day isn’t the health utopia we had all been led to believe. The news that we only had to reach 7,000 steps was enough to quite literally […]
Lucy Clarke-Billings BBC News PA The resident doctors strike in England has begun after a dispute over pay between the government and the British Medical Association (BMA). Thousands of doctors are walking out over five days, with Health Secretary Wes Streeting insisting that disruption will be kept to a minimum. But several NHS patients have […]
Nurses are expected to reject their pay award in England this week, raising the possibility of strikes later in the year, the BBC understands. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been holding a consultative vote on their 3.6% pay rise, previously describing it as “grotesque” to award nurses a lower increase than doctors, teachers, […]
NHS bosses have criticised the British Medical Association for its “increasingly hardline” approach in rejecting emergency requests for striking doctors in England to return to work. A system known as ‘derogation’ is in place whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking part in a five-day walkout, to cross the picket line […]