New research reveals a 15% pay gap that widens dramatically after women have children Women “work for free for nearly two months” a year, according to fresh analysis which reveals a 15% gender pay gap that widens “dramatically” after women have children. Women in paid employment earn on average £29,684 […]

Peers rejected letting police exercise stop and search without suspicion and sanction people without conviction Proposed legislation aimed at curbing tactics used by protest groups has suffered eight defeats in the House of Lords. Peers rejected key measures of the controversial public order bill, including ditching a measure to let […]

Health secretary, Steve Barclay, to take part in talks on pay, conditions and ‘productivity-enhancing reforms’ Ministers and nurses’ leaders will hold “intensive talks” on Wednesday in an unexpected move that has raised hopes that they will thrash out a deal to end the long-running pay dispute. Both sides made clear […]

Authorities believe Constance Marten and Mark Godon have been sleeping rough and travelling around the UK by taxi for six weeks Police have released new CCTV footage of an aristocrat who disappeared more than six weeks ago with her boyfriend, a registered sex offender in the US, and their newborn […]

Poll reveals west more united but gulf growing with countries such as India that do not subscribe to post-cold war view Almost a year after Russia’s war against Ukraine started, it has united the west, according to a 15-country survey – but exposed a widening gulf with the rest of […]