Stories
Tracking 9 developing stories across news sources
A King's Trust study published on Tuesday found that 73% of UK teens and young adults aged 16-25 are anxious about their future careers, with 59% worried about AI's impact on job security and 31% citing local job shortages as the biggest barrier to career goals.
UK retailers blame a 1.5% shop price rise in January 2026, including 3.9% food inflation, on Chancellor Rachel Reeves's April 2025 increase of employers' national insurance from 13.8% to 15% and rising energy bills, according to the British Retail Consortium.
Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo renewed calls to diversify England's school curriculum as a Lit in Colour report shows only 1.9% of GCSE pupils study books by authors of colour, with projections indicating it will take until 2046 for 10% of students to answer questions about such texts.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's UK Poverty 2026 report warns that 14.2 million people (21%) in Britain live in poverty, including 4.2 million children projected to remain in poverty by 2029 without further government action, despite Labour's move to lift the two-child benefit limit from April 2026 which will immediately lift 400,000 children out of poverty.
The NHS is trialing AI and robotic catheter technology at Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust to detect lung cancer in 300 patients, with plans to expand to King's College Hospital and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts by 2030, aiming to screen 1.4 million more people next year and potentially diagnose 50,000 cancers by 2035.
The Israeli military retrieved the body of Master Sgt Ran Gvili, the final Gaza hostage missing since October 7, 2023, after 843 days, enabling the next phase of US President Donald Trump's peace plan to proceed, which includes reopening Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
A UK study of nearly 125,000 women, including 11,000 MRI brain scans, published in Psychological Medicine found menopause is linked to grey matter loss in brain regions like the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex, similar to Alzheimer's changes, and hormone replacement therapy did not prevent this loss.
Embark Studios releases the Headwinds update for Arc Raiders on January 27, 2026, introducing Solo vs Squads matchmaking for level 40+ players, Trophy Display projects, increased bird sightings in Buried City, and the Sandwalker Set.
Lindt's 2026 Easter chocolate range includes Dubai-style pistachio cream eggs (£13 for six), popcorn-filled eggs, Gold Bunny crispy biscuit eggs (£13), Nocciolatte hazelnut truffle eggs (£16), Glamour Milk Chocolate Bunny (£8.50), Tesco-exclusive Mini Eggs in Pistachio (£3.25), and Lindor Milk Filled Eggs (£3.80), available at Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, and Ocado.