Magic Notes tool records and analyses face-to-face meetings and suggests follow-up actions. Hundreds of social workers in England have begun using an artificial intelligence system that records conversations, drafts letters to doctors and proposes actions that human workers might not have considered. Councils in Swindon, Barnet and Kingst

Schools that are part of the Harris Federation accused of taking too long to help staff get UK teaching qualification Teachers recruited from Jamaica to work for a major chain of academy schools in London have spoken of their “devastation” on finding out that they are being paid thousands of pounds a year less than English-trained recruit

Days after floods hit, further heavy rain likely to cause travel delays and flooding from late Sunday afternoon. Weather warnings have been issued as strong winds and heavy rain approach the UK, days after some areas were hit by flooding. The Met Office issued a yellow rain warning – meaning further heavy rain is likely […]

Belfast-based company appoints administrators though shipyard subsidiaries still trading Harland & Wolff, the Belfast-based shipbuilder that produced the Titanic, has collapsed into administration. The company has appointed administrators from Teneo to oversee the process after failing to find new funding to stay afloat. So far only t

Exclusive: Calls for urgent reform after figures show almost half of donations since 2010 given in last two years MPs have declared more than £6m in “freebies” since 2010 with the cash price of gifts given almost tripling over two years, analysis reveals, leading to calls for urgent reform. The value of “gifts, benefits and […]

Rail services and roads disrupted in parts of England and Wales with further downpours forecast The Environment Agency has warned drivers their cars can be swept away in just 30cm (12in) of water as more than 60 flood warnings were issued in England after heavy rain overnight, with further downpours to come. Flooding disrupted rail servic

My memoir is in cinemas this week, but what’s it like to see your life turned into a movie? A common delusion among the mentally ill is to think they are being played on screen. But for me it is really happening, or I’m pretty sure it is. My memoir of returning to the Orkney […]

England’s recycling rate decreased in 2022 as rest of UK improved but country still lags behind Europe Just 44% of UK household waste is being recycled, government statistics show, as the recycling rate in England is going down instead of improving. The UK recycling rate for waste from households was 44.1% in 2022, the latest year the [&h