The government is to appoint a "free speech champion" for English universities, as part of its pledge to protect academic freedom and free speech. 

Some of the biggest names in British theatre have signed a joint letter to the government, expressing their concerns about the impact of post-Brexit visa rules on anyone seeking work in Europe.

Fatima Manji looks at whether enough is being done to protect women whose sexual images are posted online without their consent.

More than 70 people have been fined after police in Birmingham raided a makeshift nightclub in breach of Covid laws.

Professor Linda Bauld is chair of public health at the University of Edinburgh.

The first trials are taking place to study the effectiveness of the Oxford Covid vaccine in children, with 300 volunteers aged six to 17 taking part in the research.

Almost two million more people in England have suddenly been asked to shield after a new model was developed to take other risk factors like ethnicity and postcodes into account.

Many young people who might previously have been working in shops and bars have had to seek out new sources of income. 

We were joined by Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, and Baroness Kidron

It was his report that branded the Metropolitan Police as “institutionally racist” following the murder of the teenager Stephen Lawrence.  

A new study suggests that public health messages are not getting through to some of those most at risk - NHS workers on the frontline.

The first travellers have been checking into quarantine hotels as part of tougher restrictions to curb the spread of new Covid variants.

There's just a week until the prime minister has promised to set out a "road-map" to chart the end of lockdown in England, but Boris Johnson said he still didn't have "sufficient clarity on the data" to be sure what he's going to say. 

More than half a million people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday.

Bosses at Heathrow airport have warned that the government's hotel quarantine policy is not ready.