England's Department of Health and Social Care has published the first quarterly league tables ranking NHS trusts by performance. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the rankings will highlight where urgent support is needed and help end the postcode lottery in care. The measures cover finances, patient access, waiting times for operations and A&E, and ambulance response times, with trusts organised into four performance bands. Top performers include Moorfields Eye Hospital […]

Thames Valley Police has outlined a 24/7 policing operation using drones over Windsor during the US president’s state visit. Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are due to be hosted at Windsor Castle from 17 to 19 September, with a ceremonial welcome and state banquet. A temporary airspace restriction will be in place from 16 September, when the visit rehearsal takes place, until 18 September, preventing non-police drones and […]

Ofsted will roll out a new-look set of report cards for England’s schools from November. The cards will use a colour-coded five-point scale to rate areas such as attendance, behaviour and inclusion, and the grades will be urgent improvement, needs attention, expected standard, strong standard and exceptional. The aim is to give parents more detail and a clearer picture of how a school performs. Inspectors will assess multiple areas, with […]

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein that appears to bear President Donald Trump’s name and signature. The item was included in a 2003 birthday album for Epstein, a financier once connected to Mr Trump. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls. Trump has denied writing the letter or drawing […]