Health Secretary Alan Johnson has called for "radical change" in social care amid claims the system in England is heading towards a £6 billion funding gap within 20 years.

Controversial legislation to widen the scope of embryo research is due to begin what is likely to be a stormy passage through the House of Commons.

Britain is paying the price for a decade of Labour rule which had put "bureaucratic neatness" ahead of social value, David Cameron is due to claim.

The threat of the first national rail strike for 14 years was raised when the industry's biggest union announced that it was balloting 17,000 workers for industrial action.

The public have been urged to donate to an appeal fund to help save the lives of those affected by the Burmese cyclone.

Friends of a murdered teenager face a sombre return to school on what would have been his last day as a pupil.

Britain's tax bill has increased by more than 50% in the past ten years under Labour, it has been claimed.

A government minister has maintained that post office closures were necessary because the network continued to lose half-a-million-pounds every day.

More people are hoping for house prices to fall than to rise, according to the results of a new poll.

Some credit companies are breaking advertising rules when they use social networking sites to tout for business, a charity has warned.

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