Poet Lemn Sissay says he felt obliged to accept his OBE because the award honours his younger self who overcame a “dehumanising” time in care. Mr Sissay detailed his experiences
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Council workers are to walk out over an equal pay dispute in two days of strike action that a union said will affect home care, schools and other services. Unison
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A campaigner who was sexually abused as a child after being groomed online has urged Facebook to abandon plans she says will weaken protections for vulnerable people and give predators
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The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has “overseen years of decline” in the performance of NHS cancer and waiting times targets, MPs have said. The cross-party Public Accounts
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Older people with low levels of vitamin B9 have a higher risk of dementia, a study suggests. Having low levels of the vitamin, also known as folate, has also been
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A black schoolgirl was strip searched by police while on her period after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The “traumatic” search by Metropolitan Police officers took place at the
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Refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine could arrive in Scotland “very soon”, Nicola Sturgeon has said, after the UK Government gave its backing in principle to the First Minister’s “super
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A five-year-old boy who was found dead in a river was made by his parents to stand facing a wall “for 30 minutes at a time” as punishment, a court
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Spending more than a week in bed with Covid may be linked to an increase in the risk of long term damage to mental health, new research suggests. The study
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The mother of Star Hobson has had her prison sentence for causing or allowing the 16-month-old’s death increased by the Court of Appeal. Frankie Smith (pictured), 20, was jailed at
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