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ACT celebrates Employer Pledge milestone with more than 100 businesses committed to tackling NEET crisis

Launched in autumn 2025, the Employer Pledge calls on businesses across South Wales to offer young learners work experience, placements or apprenticeships within their organisations. Since its launch, hundreds of…

Donate your body later and your blood now | Brief letters

How about adding a link online to how people can donate their own or a connected person's body in the UK, together with giving blood or plasma in life? When our brother died in the 1960s, our parents agreed that any…

From Deeside Sixth to global law firm as Nathan makes his mark

Instead of following the traditional full-time university route, Nathan secured a highly competitive Solicitor Degree Apprenticeship, spending four days a week gaining practical experience in London while studying for…

Trump-appointed CDC deputy director to resign after six months on the job

The appointments were meant to stabilize the agency after the previous CDC director, Susan Monarez , left less than a month into the job – publicly describing the directives of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr…

Are seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them? | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Once a completely innocuous food that no one really talked about, they have become the enemy of the moment. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services in the US, has called them "toxic" and vowed to…

Building the workforce to power the Humber’s low-carbon future

We are home to the UK’s largest carbon-emitting industrial cluster. That presents an obvious challenge, but it also means nowhere has a greater opportunity to make a difference to the country’s net zero ambitions. We…

Pharmacy graduate returns to University of Sunderland to support students’ health and wellbeing

She is now a practising pharmacist and co-owner of Riverview Health Centre Pharmacy, which she runs alongside her husband, Derek, who is also a University of Sunderland Pharmacy graduate. Donna recently returned to…

Bradford College Launches Pioneering New Clinical Practice Programmes for Pharmacy Technicians

The new Level 4 HNC and Level 5 Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Clinical Practice for Pharmacy Technicians, validated by the University of Greater Manchester, have been developed in response to the evolving role of pharmacy…

I struggled to come to terms with my mum’s death. Then I swam in the sea and suddenly felt connected to her

Watching the slightly choppy sea from a boat, the last thing I felt like doing was embarking on another 5km (3-mile) swim. Mind fog had sapped my energy, and my mood was decidedly Eeyore-like. But as I pulled on my cap…

‘AI can’t deliver a lamb’: National survey shows students and parents turning to hands-on careers

Their views come as new research revealed widespread concern among both teenagers and their parents about how artificial intelligence could reshape the jobs market – and suggests it is already prompting families to look…