Heavy snow and bitterly cold weather are sweeping parts of the country – with amber warnings of snow across east and southeast England. Forecasters have warned of “significant disruption” into Monday – as Storm Darcy brings st...

We were joined by Professor Peter Openshaw, an immunologist at Imperial University, who’s also a member of the The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group advising the government on the threat posed by new and emerging viruses.

If we can’t eliminate Covid, at least we can stop people getting dangerously ill: that’s becoming the focus of the experts behind the mass vaccination drive as it emerged that the Oxford jab could be less effective at preventing the new S...

Chief Executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning, who also runs a farm producing beef, dairy and pigs as well as cereals, joined us from Wiltshire.

It’s been a turbulent year for our food supply system. From panic buying to free school meals, the pandemic has placed enormous strains on food producers and retailers, not to mention the impact of Brexit. But is there an opportunity now to cha...

We were joined by Dr Deepti Gurdasani in Cambridge, who is a clinical epidemiologist at Queen Mary University of London.

The chairman of the UK’s vaccine taskforce has said he’s very optimistic that all 50-year-olds will be offered a jab by May. And the necessity of the roll-out success  was underlined with the news that a covid outbreak in a care home in ...

The Zoom recording has made a star of Jackie Weaver for the way she ruthlessly dealt with councillors she considered to be disruptive.

Not only has the TV series 'It's a Sin' won critical acclaim and become Channel 4's most-watched drama series ever, it is being credited with a massive rise in the number of people taking tests for HIV. 

Last week we reported on how hundreds of students from overseas had been forced to use a food bank in East London as the lockdown meant they were unable to earn money to support themselves.

Downing Street's senior ethnic minorities adviser reportedly considered resigning over fears that the Conservative Party was pursuing "politics steeped in division". 

An NHS worker and her 24-year-old daughter have been stabbed to death and a man died in a car crash in three linked incidents in East Ayrshire. 

Professor Christina Pagel is a mathematician specialising in health research at University College London.

The government's announcement that it plans to vaccinate all people over 50 by the start of May came as new figures show infection rates falling.

It’s ambition is to create a nationwide show of imagination and optimism –  something we could certainly all use right now. So, in the first of our new series ‘Something Different’, we bring you the Great Big Art Exhibition launc...