Older women who clock up 4,000 steps a day just once or twice a week cut their chance of early death by 26%, research suggests. It is also the amount people walk, rather than the number of days on ...

Government plans to hand more powers to the Environment Agency to penalise water companies for minor rule-breaking are now under consultation.

A law which guides the Family Court to presume that contact with both parents is usually in the best interests of a child is to be repealed.