Young people who have stoma surgery in England are increasingly finding support online as patients being offered personalised ...

​​More than 25% of working adults in the UK did hybrid work in 2024, splitting their time between working in the office and working from home, ONS data shows. In the past year nearly 15% of working ...

Beth was volunteering on a phase one medical trial. It’s the first stage in testing new drugs on humans, in which healthy ...

Wassailing has its origins in a Twelfth Night pagan tradition designed to scare off evil spirits and bring a good ...

Demand for weight loss injections has skyrocketed in just one year, with Google searches for the treatment rising by almost ...

What used to be once-in-a-century floods are happening every few years in Greater Manchester, accelerated by climate change ...

Illegal cannabis consumption in the North West has overtaken the national average for the first time in nearly ten years, ...

Winning the rugby league quadruple and being named in the BBC’s sports personality team of the year would be enough ...

Almost 6% of pregnant women in Greater Manchester were known to be smokers at the time of delivery in 2024 according to ONS ...

An Olympic trampolinist paid a surprise visit to young gymnasts at a Wirral gymnastics club last weekend. Team GB’s Zak ...

Men accounted for three quarters of all suicide deaths in England and Wales in 2023. Social isolation and trouble ‘opening ...