Late Diagnosis Blamed For UK Child Cancer Survival Rates
Children with cancer in Britain have lower survival rates than in other western European countries because the NHS gives them low priority, research reveals today.
Read MoreChildren with cancer in Britain have lower survival rates than in other western European countries because the NHS gives them low priority, research reveals today.
Read MorePlans for a home-from-home for service families visiting injured veterans received unprecedented backing as the head of the Army leant his support, while tens of thousands signed up online.
Read MorePolice and retailers are backing proposals for short-term “Tesco jails” for shopping malls and major sporting venues as a way of speedily dealing with shoplifters, drunks and football hooligans.
Read MoreThe mother of a toddler who drowned in a swimming pool while in foster care may take legal action over the tragedy.
Read MoreChildren as young as eight or nine are using cannabis, experts warn. Drugs charities are increasingly starting up children’s units – but have been shocked to find users of primary-school age. One even treated a child of six.
Read MoreHundreds of people are continuing to drink and drive in the belief they will not be caught, police said yesterday as they revealed a sharp increase in offenders in the latest Scotland-wide crackdown.
Read MoreA Nigerian man yesterday accused the organisation responsible for refugees in Scotland of race and age discrimination at an employment tribunal.
Read MoreA youth attacked and raped a teenager three weeks after he was released early from a young offenders’ institution.
Read MoreFirst Minister Alex Salmond last night met Muslim leaders in the wake of recent terror attacks, claiming Scotland was better placed than any other European nation to achieve social cohesion.
Read MoreA ward at the Erne Hospital has been closed due to an outbreak of MRSA. A Western Health and Social Care Trust spokeswoman said there were ten confirmed cases of the bug.
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