Fishing vessel with 100 asylum seekers was travelling from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands More than 60 people are believed to have died after the boat they were travelling on from Senegal was found off Cape Verde, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. At least 63 asylum […]

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”, […]