Charity calls for new carers’ benefit to be extended to pensioners in Scotland
A charity has called for a new benefit to be paid to older adult unpaid carers receiving the State Pension after 82% of them said in a new report that
Read MoreA charity has called for a new benefit to be paid to older adult unpaid carers receiving the State Pension after 82% of them said in a new report that
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Read MoreBetter-funded palliative care will never be able to eliminate unbearable suffering for everyone, the first session of a parliamentary inquiry into assisted dying has heard. The current law was described
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Read MoreA transgender woman will serve her sentence in a male prison after stabbing her partner before tying her up and leaving with her bank card. Zara Jade (pictured) was jailed
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