‘Grown men in tears’: Hundreds of pigs culled with farms overcrowded amid butcher shortage

Hundreds of healthy pigs have been culled after a nationwide shortage of abattoir workers left farms overcrowded with animals that could not be sent for slaughter.

Public inquiry into Northern Ireland’s mother and baby homes recommended by panel

A public inquiry should be established looking into the conditions and practices in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland, an expert panel has said.

Climate change is ‘huge threat to humanity’, physics Nobel Prize winner warns

Climate change is a "huge threat to humanity" and governments need to act as quickly as possible, the physics Nobel Prize winner has warned.

UK has little ‘headroom’ for COVID-19 cases to surge before NHS ‘heavily stressed’, professor warns

The UK has little "headroom" for rising coronavirus cases before the NHS becomes "heavily stressed", an expert has warned.

UK records 33,869 new COVID cases and 166 more deaths, daily figures show

The UK has recorded 33,869 new COVID-19 cases and a further 166 coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, according to government data.

‘Significant reduction’ in petrol stations running dry in hard-hit London and South East

The number of petrol stations running dry in London and the South East has seen a "significant reduction", according to daily industry data.

‘No malicious activity’ behind outage that hit Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, company says

Facebook has said there was "no malicious activity" behind a widespread outage that knocked all of its services offline for several hours yesterday.

‘Tackle company like Big Tobacco’: Facebook whistleblower warns US Congress of social media harm

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said the harms caused by the social media platform needed to be tackled like the harms caused by the tobacco industry as she testified before a US Senate committee on...