Health

Published: 05 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Britain is facing growing risks to its food supply but lacks a comprehensive national plan for feeding the population during a major crisis, according to a warning from more than 150 academics, business leaders, community organisations and food-sector experts. The experts have urged the government to treat food security as a matter of national security, warning that climate...

Published: 03 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online British farmers are facing the country’s most serious bluetongue outbreak on record, with confirmed cases in the current season already exceeding the combined total recorded across the previous three seasons. The rapidly expanding disease has reached livestock farms in Scotland for the first time this summer and has been detected as far north as Aberdeenshire, raising fresh concerns...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A communications professional whose company previously worked for US technology firm Palantir played a senior role in Andy Burnham’s successful campaign to return to Parliament, adding a new dimension to scrutiny surrounding the technology company’s relationship with the Labour government. Martha Dalton, co-founder of communications and public affairs firm Lodestone, worked for Burnham during the Makerfield by-election in...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A controversial natural-health advocate who was permanently prohibited from providing health services in Australia is due to appear at a series of events in the UK and Ireland, prompting renewed criticism from scientists, medical professionals, cancer organisations and academic figures. Barbara O’Neill, 73, describes herself as a naturopath and nutritionist and has built an international following through lectures,...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Britain’s Royal College of Nursing has ended its commercial relationship with Teva UK, bringing to a close the pharmaceutical company’s role as a commercial partner and sponsor of an upcoming professional nursing event. The decision follows pressure from campaign groups over Teva Pharmaceuticals’ links to Israel and concerns surrounding the company’s corporate record. The Royal College of Nursing,...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online As summer temperatures rise across European cities, residents of Berlin are finding an increasingly simple way to help protect one of the most valuable parts of their urban environment: street trees. Through an open-source digital platform known as Gieß den Kiez, residents can identify trees in need of water, record when they have been watered and coordinate with...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Europe has endured one of its most severe summers on record, with prolonged heatwaves, drought, wildfires and dangerously high temperatures affecting large parts of the continent. A new assessment from the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service shows that western Europe experienced surface air temperatures from June to August that were 2.5C above the recent 10-year average, making...

Published: 01 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A major charity supporting people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and related neurodevelopmental conditions has threatened legal action against an NHS organisation over a policy requiring many patients in West Yorkshire to wait at least two years for ADHD and autism assessments. ADHD UK has formally warned the West Yorkshire NHS Integrated Care Board that it could seek...

Published: 30 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A growing political battle over the future of food and agriculture in the United States is moving beyond Washington’s legislative chambers and into the rapidly expanding world of social media influencers. Major food and agriculture interests are backing a communications campaign designed to respond to the rising influence of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again movement,...

Published: 29 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Survivors of sexual abuse allegations involving former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed are calling for an investigation into the General Medical Council over claims that concerns about doctors linked to him were not acted upon when they were first reported almost a decade ago. The survivors say the medical regulator should form part of any public inquiry into...