Trio detained in February after counter-terrorism investigation are accused of working for Moscow’s security services, BBC reports Three Bulgarian nationals suspected of spying for Russia while living in the UK have been arrested and charged, police have said. The defendants were among five people detained in February after a long-running […]

Health secretary suggested patients could go directly to diagnostic test or clinician to ease ‘bottleneck’ in NHS system Patients with cancer symptoms could bypass their GP in the future and go straight for a scan, the health secretary has suggested, in the latest “radical” attempt by the government to cut […]

Exclusive: Ethics watchdog castigates government over power imbalance and effect on morale of erosion in conventions Ministers’ disparaging public attacks on civil servants have damaged staff retention and morale in Whitehall, the government’s ethics watchdog has said. Government officials have been accused of being “obstructive and furthering their own agenda”, […]

Dorset council says it flagged test results about potentially deadly bacteria on Monday, but evacuation didn’t take place until four days later Home Office contractors were told that potentially deadly legionella bacteria had been detected on the Bibby Stockholm hours after asylum seekers were taken onboard the barge. Dorset council […]