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Baroness Tessa Jowell yesterday received a standing ovation in the House of Lords after she gave a moving speech about her battle with brain cancer. Hundreds of peers, including the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, gave the Labour politician a minute-long applause after she called for more cancer treatments to be available on the NHS. In May last year, Ms Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with a high-grade brain tumour known as glioblastoma. In a moving speech, she called for...

The oldest known human fossil found outside of Africa suggests modern humans left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. The fossil, an upper jawbone with several teeth, was found in one of several prehistoric cave sites in Israel. Dating techniques of material and the jawbone said it is between 175,000 and 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years. Before the latest discovery, the earliest modern human...

Economic insecurity has become the "new normal" according to a damning new study, with at least 70 per cent of the UK’s working population "chronically broke". Research by leading thinktank Royal Society of Arts found that while about 30 per cent of respondents said they lived comfortably, 40 per cent said their finances were permanently precarious. The remaining 30 per cent said they were not managing to get by, in a nod to Theresa May's JAM acronym. Brhmie Balaram, the author...

Police forces across England & Wales have released some very worrying figures about violent crime across the two nations. The increase use of knives and guns on the streets of the UK will terrify law-abiding citizens. Knife crime has increased 21 per cent with over 37,400 offences recorded, and gun offences have risen 20 per cent to over 6,600. Overall there has been a 14 per cent increase in crime. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the offences were...

Donald Trump this week signed an executive order that imposed tariffs on washing machines and solar panels. The move has been widely criticised by manufacturers for driving up costs for American citizens and reducing choice. Suspicious that the move could ignite a trade war with South Korea and China have also been raised. Discussing possible outcomes, Dr Fragkiskos Filippaios, Reader in International Business at Kent Business School at the University of Kent, says: "Recently, the US administration decided in favour of the introduction...

The UK is on the edge of a nursing crisis, with the number of new health care professionals lagging behind an ageing population. According to analysis from the International Longevity Centre - UK the number of nurses rose by a pitiful 0.8 per cent between 2009 and 2017, while the number of people aged over-65 rose by 17.6 per cent over the same period. The number of nurses per 1,000 of the population has fallen considerably from its peak of...

Statistics revealed today by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government show that the number of people sleeping rough has reached its highest level since records began. A shameful 4,751 people were sleeping on the streets in the autumn of 2017, a figure that has rocketed in recent years as austerity and inflation create a financial trap for the most vulnerable people in society. And it's no longer confined to London and the big cities. Rough sleepers have been appearing...

After the undercover revelations, printed in the FT, about the alleged sexual harassment at the Presidents Club annual charity dinner last night, there have been calls for Families minister, Nadhim Zahazwi, to resign, as he attended the event. The reputable finance newspaper reported men “repeatedly putting hands up their skirts” and one even said “an attendee had exposed his penis to her during the evening.” Already David Meller, a co-chair of the club, has stood down from the board of...

This is the shocking moment a boy racer was captured on CCTV crashing a Mercedes convertible into a house - before casually walking away. Footage shows the tracksuit-wearing driver travelling along a quiet street before he suddenly loses control of the silver motor. It swerves across the road and mounts a pavement before demolishing a metal hand rail of a semi-detached house. The driver manages to force open the buckled door before dusting himself down and gesturing to a passerby...