All teachers should be given free access to a ‘golden thread’ of core professional qualifications, a think tank and charity has suggested.

A report from the Resolution Foundation suggests that the Government should focus spending in areas such as health and housing.

The report claims that the UK health system has had an “increasing focus” on major and common conditions, but people with these rare conditions are being left to “fall through the cracks”.

Dame Helen Mirren has told people in midlife not to “fear” ageing as she encouraged them to embrace exercise. The 79-year-old actress said people should make “little changes now to help them later in ...