First Minister's Questions from the Senedd: 17 March 2026

Eluned Morgan is quizzed by opposition party leaders and other MSs during First Minister's Questions. By Alun Jones Eluned Morgan’s fifty-sixth session as first minister - the penultimate FMQs before ...

Huge queues for meningitis B jab at Kent uni with students turned away due to high demand

The University of Kent says the vaccination queue has "closed" for the day, but urged students to return for the jab tomorrow.

Ottawa investing $200-million in Nova Scotia spaceport to enable sovereign satellite launches

Three companies to receive funding through the government’s launch grant program in a bid to boost Canada’s space and defence ...

Colt Canada to deliver more than 65,000 rifles to Canadian troops in sped-up procurement process

Contract of around $307-million part of first wave of procurements delegated to Canada’s new Defence Investment Agency ...
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Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Students in Kent university halls to be offered meningitis vaccine as Streeting calls outbreak 'unprecedented'

Students at the University of Kent have been queuing all day for antibiotics after two people aged 18 and 21 died in the outbreak.