Over-confidence, wasted opportunities and muddled-thinking left UK sleep-walking into Covid.

An anti-corruption charity finds significant concerns in £15.3bn worth of contracts awarded during the pandemic.

The Covid inquiry opens its next set of hearings on Monday, looking at the impact on healthcare and the NHS.

Dame Ruth May tells the Covid inquiry nurses struggled with low staffing levels and difficulties accessing protective equipment.

UKHSA's Prof Susan Hopkins said respirator masks may have worked no better than thin surgical masks.

Social care providers say the sector is in "unprecedented danger" without more funding.

The UK Health Security Agency argued naming the junior officials could put them at risk of abuse.

Covid inquiry hears harrowing testimony from ex-adviser in emergency preparedness at NHS England.

Crews say they faced crucial delays trying to save dying patients because of the time it took to put on equipment.

Mum of premature twins says rigid restrictions on birthing wards during Covid were traumatic.

Patients' families were “horrified but not surprised” when told the blanket policy had been in place.

The Covid inquiry restarts its live hearings this week, after senior staff in the NHS revealed just how close some hospitals were to collapse

Sir Stephen Powis says points-based tool was drawn up should need to prioritise patients have arisen.

NHS experts report unprecedented demand for the new generation of obesity treatments.

Jeannie Ambrose, one of about 1,000 affected patients, says the drug should be made available on the NHS

The easily spreadable virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences during winter.

A new drug that slows the pace of Alzheimer's disease is too expensive for too little benefit to be used on the NHS, the watchdog says.

A court challenge means the government will look again at the cap on the Disabled Facilities Grant.

From 'fruitless' dating to financial pressures, people share their views on falling fertility rates.

One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.

The government wants to create a smoke-free generation and restrict the sale and marketing of vapes.

The Olympic cycling champion, who has terminal cancer, wants more younger men to get checked.

Sir Ed fears elderly and disabled people might feel pressured to end their lives if they felt like a "burden”.

The panel of 28 felt it was important to give people choice, but only if they were terminally ill.

A woman with terminal cancer is calling on the government to "urgently" reform assisted dying laws.

His comments came ahead of an assisted dying bill being introduced to Parliament.

A proposed law would give terminally ill people the right to choose to end their life.

Dame Sally Davies told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry she had worried about the disposal of the nerve agent.

People in England will be able to get free varenicline tablets to help them quit cigarettes.

A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up?

After a successful launch, the upper-stage of the rocket goes on to experience an anomaly.

Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.

As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in orbit.

A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked.

The world's most powerful rocket is expected to be back in action again soon

A leading conservation group wants the government to give the go-ahead to bringing back beavers in the wild.

A new expedition finds that a large part of the railing at the ship's front has fallen away.

New legislation gives regulators more powers to tackle water pollution in England and Wales.

The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.

A UK law allowing gene-edited food has been paused and some British scientists fear being overtaken.

Scientists launched an investigation after being baffled by seismic signals picked up across the world

A public hearing is set to examine the events surrounding the catastrophic failure of Oceangate’s submersible.

Sir David Attenborough praises the "beauty" created by the BBC in its natural history shows.

A new study shows that the record-breaking rainfall was made more likely and intense by climate change.

The Sphinx, a patch of snow thought to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton have bookended a particularly stormy period. What's behind it?

Nearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.

It was 200 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs nearly three billion years later.

The TV presenter says the previous Tory administration was "reckless" to scale back climate policy.

Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.