Our verdict There were 4.2 million more appointments between July 2024 and March 2025 than in the same period a year previously, so for now we’re rating this as “achieved”, though there’s some ...

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A clip is circulating on social media with claims it shows “Muslim migrants” in a cemetery in Ireland, but the footage was ...

What do we know about the Israel-Iran ceasefire timeline, and what happens next? A ceasefire between Iran and Israel announced by US President Donald Trump on Monday evening appears to be holding, ...

John’s story illustrates that false or misleading health misinformation can lead to the rejection of scientifically ...

Calls for the government to scrap the two-child benefit limit have been renewed ahead of the publication of its child poverty ...

This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content— here. For the ...

The chair of NHS England, Dr Penny Dash, said at the NHS ConfedExpo Conference yesterday (22:45): “There are seven and a half ...

This headline figure doesn’t tell the whole story. 2.3% is the average annual real terms growth between 2023/24 and 2028/29, and includes both day-to-day and capital spending. The average annual ...

New data obtained by Full Fact reveals that a 3.6 million rise in the number of hospital appointments—celebrated by the government as a “massive increase”—is actually smaller than the increase ...

There’s no evidence that US President Donald Trump called in 2012 for the president to be “impeached immediately” if the Dow Jones stock market index drops 1,000 points in two days, despite an image ...

Claims that President Donald Trump’s mother said he’d be a “disaster” in politics are being reshared online. But there’s no evidence she ever said this. Posts on Facebook claim Mary Anne Trump ...