Top Gear’s Stig responds to show’s return amid BBC crash lawsuit EXCLUSIVE: ‘Top Gear’ driver Paul Rees speaks out about show’s return after also being injured in same crash as Freddie Flintoff The Independent UK · Aug 28
Top Gear’s The Stig reveals his identity as driver speaks out about Flintoff crash IN FULL The Independent UK · Jul 23
Top Gear's The Stig claims he nearly died in horrific Freddie Flintoff crash The Formula Two and Porsche Supercup driver speaks publicly over the December 2022 accident Evening Standard · Jul 23
Top Gear’s The Stig thought Andrew Flintoff died in crash Flintoff, 48, was taken to hospital with facial and rib injuries following the accident at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, in December 2022. Evening Standard · Jul 23
Top Gear driver The Stig claims he nearly died in Freddie Flintoff car crash: ‘I have no idea how I survived’ Professional driver was assisting BBC presenter in vehicle when it flipped while filming show The Independent UK · Jul 23
Freddie Flintoff Top Gear Crash Twist: Secret Passenger Sues BBC for £150,000 Over Horror Smash Racing driver Paul Rees, secretly involved in Freddie Flintoff's 2022 Top Gear crash, sues BBC Studios for £150,000, alleging personal injury. BBC denies negligence, attributing the crash to Rees's instructions. International Business Times UK · Jul 12
Scandal-hit nursing regulator still failing to address problems, watchdog warns A scathing audit of the Nursing and Midwifery Council found there was no evidence of “substantial and sustained improvement” The Independent UK · May 27
Nurses who should have been banned kept working due to regulator failings The Nursing and Midwifery Council said the failing was ‘completely and utterly unacceptable’. Evening Standard · May 27
UK nurses and midwives who should have been banned have worked for last 12 years Exclusive: Nursing and Midwifery Council admits it did not carry out checks on professionals who broke the law The Guardian - UK · May 27
Stark warning for NHS over drop in number of international nurses coming to UK The health and care system has relied on international recruitment ‘for generations’ with experts warning that plans to tighten visa rules and cut immigration could ‘deepen’ workforce shortages The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2025
Trust in the NHS depends on an overhaul of nursing standards THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The new management team at the watchdog must make sure staff are fit to practise and must learn from its past mistakes The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2025
New chief of scandal-hit nursing regulator finally admits: We got it wrong on Lucy Letby Exclusive: New Nursing and Midwifery Council chief apologises over failure to investigate sexual misconduct claims and admits killer nurse Lucy Letby should have been suspended much earlier – after series of exposes by The Independent The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2025
Repeated failings by the nursing regulator demand a new approach THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: No stranger to oversight errors, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has now been revealed to have allowed hundreds of underqualified or fraudulently qualified nurses to work in Britain. Wes Streeting should now draft in his predecessor to assist in rooting them out The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2025
Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2024 Leading pharmacists outraged over GP funding announcement The Government has announced the first details of the new GP contract for 2025/26.
The Guardian - AU · Apr 11, 2024 The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’ Not long after the 1994 film became a smash hit, the titular bus disappeared. Where did it go? Who had it? And could it be recovered before it was too late?
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024 Who’s the smallest of them all? Meet the world’s amazing tiniest creatures Often overlooked in favour of larger, more charismatic cousins, we asked scientists to tell us about the smallest-known species, from a nano-chameleon to a miniature frog