In quite a departure from its Christian traditions, senior clergy at the York Minster have quietly introduced a new form of spiritual enrichment altogether – Zen Buddhist meditation sessions to take place on its premises.

The report that the number of women having abortions after 35 is rising comes as a shock to those who presume that the termination of unwanted pregnancy is something only done by irresponsible teenagers. One would think that by the age of 35-plus...

A GP is facing the music for illegally prescribing Viagra to family friends.

Rajiv Chandrakant Vyas, more famously known as Raju Vyas has been jailed for 38 months at the Leicester Crown Court, it has been revealed. More details of the sentence will be reported in due course.

St Luke’s supporters joined Samantha Cameron at a special reception at No.10 Downing Street on Tuesday 17 May to raise awareness of the way in which the hospice supports end of life patients during a crisis at home.

‘You speak an infinite deal of nothing’ is a line from Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice). The Bard had an uncanny knack of sizing up people and situations, whatever the age or country. The line could have been directed as much to President...

The four-year-old son of a woman knifed to death at the family’s £5million mansion repeatedly asked: “Where’s mummy.”

Migration from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe could provide the kind of vibrant boost to arts and culture as movement from India and Pakistan did to UK food tastes over the past 40 years, a leading artist and academic has said.

A woman who said she wanted to marry "Jihadi John" has been jailed for four years and six months for sharing so-called Islamic State propaganda.