Children's loss of social skills during lockdown worse if parents are furloughed, study finds

CHILDREN suffered a greater loss of social and emotional skills during lockdown if their parents were furloughed, researchers have found.

Plans to jail repeat shoplifters ‘remarkably short-sighted’ and risks further overcrowding prisons

GOVERNMENT plans to jail repeat shoplifters are “remarkably short-sighted” as they will pile further pressure on “already chronically overcrowded p

Bigger bonuses for bankers as HSBC more than doubles its profits

Tories abandon clean air policies

‘Friend of the drivers’ Sunak orders review into low-traffic neighbourhoods ahead of ‘energy security’ push

Socialist Emma Dent Coad says she'll likely stand as Independent MP after ‘very positive’ crowdfunding response

SOCIALIST Emma Dent Coad has said it is “looking very likely” she will stand as an independent MP for Kensington as donations flooded into her crow

Tories reach rock bottom as migrants put in tents

Refugee charities slam policy as ‘cruelty before sense’

Legal bid to stop Ulez expansion quashed as Khan vows to do ‘everything possible’ to help drivers

ULEZ will be expanded across London a month from Saturday after the High Court today dismissed a legal bid to stop it by five Tory-led councils.

Plymouth mass shooting victims 'died in vain', families say as force criticised again

BEREAVED families from the Plymouth mass shooting said today their “deaths have been in vain” as the Devon and Cornwall Police continue to place th

Parents denounce ‘nonsense’ Tory claims about Universal Credit

PARENTS and carers have dismissed as “nonsense” Tory claims that their flagship benefit universal credit gets them into work.

Energy companies ‘laughing all the way to the bank’ as British Gas rakes in record £969m profit

‘Government could have imposed a proper windfall tax on excess profits. But instead it has chosen to leave billions on the table,’ TUC leader says