A mother who has waited for a year and a half for a liver transplant said she hopes a donor comes forward this Christmas. Sarah Barker, 33, from Royston, Hertfordshire, was born with a childhood disease of the liver called Biliary Atresia. The average waiting time for a liver transplant …

Meals in prisons are often substandard and need a nutritional overhaul, says the writer and campaigner Lucy Vincent. In a personal film for the Daily Politics soapbox series, she called for better education for catering skills saying it would help rehabilitation and improve employment prospects. More: Follow @daily_politics on Twitter …

As the waters around the UK’s shores grow warmer, we may have a replacement for the fish supper.

Many GPs in England have stopped providing some forms of contraception because of funding cuts, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Clinicians are warning that cuts to contraceptive services will mean “more unplanned pregnancies and abortions”. Health workers tell the programme what effect any restrictions to contraception may have on …

Liberal Democrat Health spokesman, Norman Lamb, has called on the government to take urgent action over the crisis in social care funding. Spending has fallen by 9% in real terms over the past five years, with local government blaming cuts to their funding from central government.

Image caption Although never a close ally of Margaret Thatcher, he held key positions in her government Former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Prior has died at the age of 89. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s. Before …

Image copyright EPA Image caption Commuters were earlier warned not to travel on Tuesday by Southern Rail unions have been accused by the transport secretary of “having little interest” in resolving the Southern dispute as a bid to stop further strikes failed. Writing to MPs, Chris Grayling said officials were …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The UK becomes the first country to adopt an official definition for anti-Semitism Theresa May has accused the Labour Party of “turning a blind eye” towards anti-Semitism as she announced plans to help tackle hatred of Jewish people. The UK has adopted an international …

A British neo-Nazi movement is to become the first far-right group to be banned under terrorism laws in the UK. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said National Action was “a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation”. An order laid in Parliament to proscribe the group – making it a criminal offence to …

A pilot accused of smuggling more than £2.4m of cocaine into the UK was arrested while sitting on a toilet with his trousers down, a jury heard. Dutch pilot John Buwalda and another man are accused of bringing the drug into Kent by light aircraft. Both have denied conspiracy to …