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The UK's medicines and devices regulator has issued a safety notice about wireless monitors used to track babies' heartbeats during labour. The Medicines and H…
The Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain has launched a consultation into how bus service performance is judged. It was announced on 17 September 2026…
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated its travel advice for Belgium on 17 September 2026, adding information about strike action. The main p…
Chiltern Railways moves into public ownership on Sunday 20 September 2026. Chiltern runs services from London Marylebone out to communities across Buckinghamsh…
The Department for Education has given schools and councils six more weeks to complete free school meal eligibility checks. The deadline has moved from Thursda…
Ofsted has published an update on its regulatory action against Bright Horizons, one of the UK's large nursery groups. Since September last year, Ofsted has be…
The government, the Environment Agency and water company bosses met on 16 September 2026 to discuss how England gets out of drought. The headline number from t…
A five-year research project has found microplastics in the soil of every single agricultural field it tested. The EU-funded project tested 227 farm fields acr…
A small wild cat living in the cloud forests of Bolivia has been confirmed as a species nobody had formally described before. This is rarer than it sounds. It…
On 26 August 2026, a massive section of overhanging glacier and rock broke away from Langtang Lirung mountain, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. The piece…
Astronomers say they have solved a long-standing puzzle about black holes: when they "burp". Black holes have a reputation as cosmic plugholes that swallow eve…
Scientists at Stanford University have created mice whose brains are roughly half human tissue by volume. Here is how. The team first genetically engineered mi…
A children's charity has found that hospitals in the UK have far too few health play professionals. Health play professionals are trained staff who help childr…
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have published a review of global research into how men and women are treated for the same illnesses. The answer wa…
A government review of mental health conditions, autism and ADHD is due to report next week, and early details have caused a row. The review is expected to say…
On Thursday 17 September 2026, NICE published draft guidance on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). NICE is the National In…
Two big things about dementia happened on the same day. On Thursday 17 September 2026, Alzheimer's Society and The King's Fund published a joint report. It say…
On Thursday 17 September 2026, the NHS in England began offering a breast cancer medicine called Enhertu to a group of patients who could not get it before. En…
On 16 September 2026, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated its travel advice for Saudi Arabia. The update added information about conflict…
On 16 September 2026, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated its travel advice for Ecuador with new information about a state of emergency. E…
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