Nurses will be told to do regular ward rounds and patients encouraged to carry out inspections as part of a drive to improve hospital standards in England.

A report suggests dozens of teacher misconduct cases could go unheard because of changes to the way in which the profession is being regulated.

Accountants PwC are fined £1.4m by regulators for failing to audit accurately the accounts of US bank, JP Morgan.

Education Secretary Michael Gove is being urged to scrap legal limits on infant class sizes by a London council chief executive.

People have the chance to try to resell their unwanted London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic tickets from Friday.

The problems caused when lorry and car drivers are misdirected by out-of-date directions from their sat-navs are to be tackled at a government summit.

Some 40,000 British women with banned PIP breast implants should find out later whether the government believes they should be removed.

A pastor in north-eastern Nigeria says gunmen have killed six people in an attack on his church, amid renewed sectarian violence in the country.