Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced plans to eliminate statutory limits on government share ownership in English water companies, paving the way for increased public control.
An international research team found that a train delay in England, previously attributed to a solar storm in 1841, actually occurred seven years later, altering the timeline of early technological disruptions.
A patient at Royal Cornwall Hospital was told she had breast cancer by an NHS employee she knew, two days before her official consultation, as data breaches plague the health service.
Luke Campbell, the Reform UK Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, is under police investigation following allegations he shared explicit self-images with a female staff member.