Birmingham Airport, the UK’s seventh busiest, suspended flights after an incident on the runway
Articles from August 2025
Why walking further and faster could cut your risk of heart attack and stroke
It’s estimated that just over a quarter adults in the UK, around 14.4 million people, have high blood pressure increasing their risk of heart problems and stroke
Universities ‘keen’ to offer places to students even if they miss grades
It comes as a record number of students are expected to have been successful in securing their first-choice university
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Josef Fritzl case made her ‘reject God’
Badenoch said the Fritzl case was like ‘someone blew out a candle’ when it came to her faith
Thousands face travel chaos after emergency landing shuts runway at Birmingham airport
Passengers faced hours of delays even after the runway reopened
Coroner issues warning over unregulated e-bike batteries after man’s death in house fire
A charity has warned that ‘substandard batteries pose a life-threatening risk to the public’
Patients whose lives were ruined after being ‘needlessly given cancer drug for years’ sue NHS trust
Overprescribing of temozolomide left some people with secondary cancer and other severe side-effects, say lawyers
Inmate who staged rooftop prison protest cleared after using ‘cruel’ indefinite jail term as defence
Joe Outlaw is acquitted of 12 counts of criminal damage to HMP Frankland, but convicted of two counts, after telling jurors he is being ‘starved’ in segregation
Tax gambling industry more to lift 500,000 children out of poverty, government urged
The gambling industry should pay a ‘fairer share,’ former PM Gordon Brown said
Starmer opens door to income tax rise in autumn Budget as pressure to fill £50bn hole mounts
Labour prime minister pledged that plans to be set out in the autumn would make ‘sure people feel better off’