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Serious violence fails to fall following a seven-year run of declining figures, a Cardiff University study shows.

The YouGov research showed that 51% of people in Wales never take any cardiovascular exercise, prompting warnings from health experts

A major study has found in the first six months after moving house people are more likely to be green commuters

Northern Ireland's unemployment level is again on the rise and higher than almost any other region of the United Kingdom, up by 4,000 in a three-month period.

MORE than 45 million working days have been lost due to stress, anxiety and depression in the past three years.

Crime figures show 573 homicides took place in 2015, while knife crime and sexual offences including rape also increased

I warned that students were being misled and was rebuked but it was true. Ministers owe them and me an apology

City MP says "isolation" of some Muslims in Birmingham is fault partly of government and local council.

Hospital data shows seven-year fall in serious violent crime in England and Wales has halted

TUC analysis of the ONS Labour Force Survey highlights gap between BME and white workers

A total of 30million working days were lost due to stress, depression or anxiety, according to Labour Force survey

Disabled people are almost three and a half times more at risk of violent crime, research shows.

John Morgan finds pro-EU stance of (most) graduates will be a key factor on 23 June, but also reveals much about current divisions in UK society

Shetland is in the top five for obesity problems in the UK, with an alarming one in four children having weight problems by the time they start primary school. Data collated from official sources such as the Scottish Health Survey reveals that one third of Shetland adults are obese. The figures come from a sample of... Read Full Story

The number of sex crimes reported to police has passed 100,000 in a year for the first time, while homicides jumped by more than a tenth, official figure

Full-time working fathers out-earn their childless counterparts by more than a fifth, research finds.

Interest in politics among the Scottish population is at its highest level since the advent of the Scottish Parliament.

New findings published this week from ScotCen’s Scottish Social Attitudes survey have highlighted both falling attendance at religious services and a steady increase in the number of Scots saying they do not belong to a religion.

Much has been written about the underperformance of white British children. But there are other very pressing issues to explore too, writes CentreForum's executive director