A one-minute silence will be held at the Scottish Parliament for all women killed by men this year. The event has been organised on the 30th anniversary of the UN’s
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Boris Johnson has urged France to step up efforts to stem the flow of migrants crossing the Channel after a boat capsized off the French coast with the loss of
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A police force has apologised to two women whose reports of domestic abuse at the hands of an officer were ignored. Gwent Police issued a statement on Wednesday saying it
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A teenager from Buckinghamshire has sent homemade care packages to more than 1,000 people over the last year. Alice Rose, 18, who posts Positivity Boxes stocked with jewellery, hygiene products
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Boris Johnson is fronting a “pickpocketing operation” to introduce a “working-class dementia tax” via his social care reforms, according to Sir Keir Starmer. The Labour leader (pictured) repeatedly pressed the
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Judges asked to decide whether someone has the mental capacity to engage in sex should assess whether he or she can understand that the other person involved must be able
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Calls to the national domestic abuse helpline rose by more than a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic, figures show. There were 49,756 calls to the helpline, run by Refuge, in
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It is a “tragedy” that calls for emergency funding to stabilise the social care sector over the winter seem to have “fallen on deaf ears”, a boss in the industry
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Two police officers who took “shameful” crime scene photos and described murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman as “dead birds” on social media have been sacked following a tribunal.
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There have been more than 500 verbal or physical assaults on Scottish Ambulance Service staff in the past 22 months, new data shows. Between January 2020 and October 2021, staff
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