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Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. London is facing a mounting childlessness crisis, and the impact is being felt most acutely in its schools. Over the past two years, nearly 40 primary schools across England have closed, with London boroughs such as Westminster, Lambeth, Southwark, Hackney, Camden, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Islington witnessing some of the highest rates of closures in the country. The...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. As the NHS braces for the pressures of the coming winter, patients will increasingly be asked to monitor their own health at home using technology designed to reduce unnecessary hospital visits and free up vital resources. Across the country, 45 pilot schemes have been announced to allow people to check their own oxygen levels, blood pressure, and other...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Labour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has called on the party to uphold its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance, or VAT, directly challenging the Treasury and putting pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the next budget. Powell’s intervention comes amid intense speculation that the government may consider tax increases to bridge a £30 billion...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The parents of three young girls murdered in the Southport attack have faced searing scrutiny as they testified before a public inquiry, with the bereaved families calling for them to be “held to account for what they allowed to happen.” The case, which has gripped the nation, centres on Axel Rudakubana, whose shocking actions left the community in...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has been found to have breached ethics rules after failing to declare that the man she appointed as chair of the Independent Football Regulator had previously donated to her leadership campaign, an investigation by the Commissioner for Public Appointments has revealed. Sir William Shawcross, the Commissioner, concluded that Nandy violated the “integrity” principle of...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged the Scottish National Party (SNP) to take a firm stand against the development of new North Sea oil and gas fields, calling on party leader John Swinney to “pick a side” and formalise a presumption against new drilling projects. In a debate at Holyrood, Sturgeon said Swinney should confirm the party’s...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. An internal review of the Metropolitan Police has found that racial harm inflicted on Black communities is not accidental but “institutionally defended,” revealing deep-rooted cultural and structural barriers that protect the force from meaningful reform. The report, authored by Dr. Shereen Daniels and published on Friday, provides one of the most damning indictments yet of Britain’s largest police...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Leading international health experts have called for a legal guarantee that cancer patients in the UK receive treatment within two months of an urgent GP referral — even if this means the NHS must fund care privately or abroad. The proposal, outlined in The Lancet Oncology, seeks to transform the way cancer care is delivered in Britain by...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. MPs on the Treasury select committee have called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to raise taxes on the UK’s £11bn gambling sector, urging her to ignore what they describe as “scaremongering” by betting firms determined to protect their profits. The committee’s report, released as the Treasury finalises Reeves’s second budget, delivers one of the most direct challenges yet to...

Published: 07 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. There has never been a football match quite like this — not in tone, not in atmosphere, and certainly not in the emotions it stirred on the streets of Birmingham. The Europa League fixture between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday night was less a sporting occasion and more a political event, charged with the energy...