The chair of the Royal College of GPs also told the BBC this week that doctors have “real concerns about the practical and legal implications of a change in the law on assisted dying”, which she said ...

The British endurance swimmer says ‘I’m frightened of sharks but I’m really frightened of a world without sharks’ ahead of his latest swim.

The banking giant is now set to become fully private almost 17 years after receiving a state bailout during the 2008 financial crisis.

Transport minister Mike Kane said the Government wants to ‘maximise the benefits of future flight technologies including flying taxis’.

The announcement comes in the same week that the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats passed 12,000 for the year.