A Hague court found the Dutch government discriminated against people on Bonaire by failing to prepare climate adaptation measures, and ordered a concrete adaptation plan plus a national carbon budget and interim emission targets to be set within six months.
A six-month pilot of rapid access valve assessment clinics in south London screened 168 patients—55% from minority ethnic backgrounds—and clinicians are calling for the model to be expanded across NHS England to address disparities in diagnosis and treatment.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a plan to cap ground rents at £250 a year and to phase permitted ground rents to a nominal peppercorn over 40 years, a reform the government says will affect more than 5 million leaseholders in England and Wales.
Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome is a sequence-to-function AI that can analyse up to one million letters of DNA and predict how genetic variants affect gene regulation and expression. The model has been described in Nature and made available for non-commercial research, and roughly 3,000 researchers have used it.
The Ladies Pop-Up Shop & Fun Fashion Show will take place at Upton Community Centre in Widnes on March 1 to raise funds for Making Space's supported living services in Widnes and Runcorn.
Liz Earle will be the keynote speaker at the Ladies Lunch 2026 in Hull on March 6, a joint fundraiser by the Sailors' Children's Society and HEY Smile Foundation expected to welcome over 500 guests.
A QAA review found Glasgow University's assessment processes posed a "systemic risk to academic standards" after a student, Ethan Brown, was wrongly told he could not graduate; the university apologised and accepted the report's recommendations, and the Scottish Funding Council has commissioned a national review of assessment procedures. His mother has called for a fatal accident inquiry.
Walton County officials announced that human remains found in Miramar Beach in October 2022 have been identified as Jacob Lyon, who was reported missing in 2016; the cause of death remains undetermined and the investigation is ongoing.
Lady Smith's report for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry says pupils at Fettes College were sexually, physically and emotionally abused across several decades and were "wholly failed" by the school; Fettes has issued an unreserved apology and said its current welfare culture is very different. Extradition proceedings are ongoing for one alleged perpetrator living in South Africa.
Sarah Mullally was officially confirmed as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul's Cathedral in the ancient Confirmation of Election; she will be enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in March and begin her public ministry then.
